From Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes follows in the footsteps of 18th century aristocrats going on a Grand Tour as she travels through France and Italy to see how travel, the arts and culture…
Alexandria: The Greatest City
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the…
Greatest Treasures of the Ancient World
Unearthing the glittering, golden treasures of the pharaohs.
A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes
Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean seas, tracing Odysseus’s long journey home. Her mission: to…
The Nile: Egypt’s Great River with Bettany Hughes
The historian explores the land that inspired her passion for the past by embarking upon a 900-mile journey along the river Nile and examining how it shaped ancient Egypt.
Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence
Exploring life in Pompeii during the final days of the doomed city.
Eight Days That Made Rome
Bettany Hughes relives eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and made it the world’s first superpower.
Genius of the Modern World
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world – Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Genius of the Ancient World
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy – Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.