Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities with Bettany Hughes

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode from the back catalogue, Dr Bettany Hughes joins Dan to talk about her history of Istanbul which sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Dr. Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and medieval history and culture. A Scholar at Oxford University she has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht and Manchester. She is a Tutor for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education and a Research Fellow of King's College London. Her new book is entitled Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History, it's another episode from the back catalog
0:05.5	from the illustrious vaults of History Hit. This one features one of the world's favorite
0:11.2	historians, Bettany Hughes, you've seen her on TV, you've heard her on the podcast,
0:15.5	on the radio, on the live streams, she's a legend, but what you might not know is that
0:18.8	she's a totally brilliant writer, a brilliant historian, her history of Istanbul,
0:23.6	sort of portrait, a biography of that essential city that sits at the crossroads of Europe
0:28.8	and Asia, the Mediterranean world, the Black Sea, you name it, it is such a good book.
0:34.1	She came on the podcast a couple years ago to talk all about it. Please enjoy this conversation
0:37.7	with her, a pioneering public historian, brilliant author. And if you want to listen to other
0:43.6	back episodes of this podcast, they're only available, only in one place, and that's at historyhit.tv.
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0:53.8	there all the time. We got podcasts, thousands of podcasts, history hit and all the sibling podcasts
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1:04.0	of you guys for subscribing. I mean, I'm going on some serious adventures over the next few weeks
1:09.6	because of you and not just me, lots of other wonderful historians as well. We've got a big
1:13.6	series of Ellen and Janica coming up all about the medieval world. Great stuff. So head over there,
1:18.5	historyhit.tv. In the meantime, everybody here is Bethany Hughes. Enjoy.
1:27.5	Bethany Hughes, one of the world's greatest historians, or one of the world's greatest cities,
1:32.5	Istanbul. I mean, what an exciting project. How long has this been going on for?
1:37.3	10 years. So I first started to research it 10 years ago, but I first went to the city 30 years
1:43.6	ago. And that's I suppose when the idea came into my mind. And is it the greatest city on
1:49.7	earth? It's going to be one of them. I think it has to be the most important city on earth,
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