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Bettany Hughes

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Bettany Mary Hughes OBE (born May 1967 in Oxford, UK) is an English classicist, historian, author, and television broadcaster.

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  • [E]ven though, like it or not, women occupy fifty percent of the human story genetically — I as a historian — I noticed that we only occupy about naught point five percent of official, written record in human history. But, my God, we are there.
  • As a society we can tolerate questions when things are going well, but when things are going badly we want answers.
    • (November 24, 2021)"Socrates and his Athens". The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. (quote at 47:55 of 1:00:45 in video)
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