ME & MY MONEY: Historian Bettany Hughes hates extravagance

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Some cultural bodies have prompted accusations of McCarthyism – the anti-Russian hysteria whipped up during the 1950s – for rushing to cancel Russian culture in response to Vladimir Putin’s (above) invasion order

‘With all great literature, like the great Russian masters, there is a sort of universality that resonates with people.
They write about the human condition and in reading them we realise that people from 19th century Russia – or indeed modern day Russia – have many of the same difficulties, hopes and dreams that we have in the west.’

The 54-year-old academic and broadcaster told Donna Ferguson she has never owned a credit card, nor made any major mistakes with money.
But she is prepared to spend £135 on a massage as a treat because of the ‘weird positions’ she often finds herself in, crawling through tombs while filming at historic sites.

ssion. ‘I have never seen him more scared than he was in that moment, it was the first time I had ever seen tears in his eyes,’ she said of the 24-year-old who has six-year-old daughter to a previous rel

They grew up during the war and believed in being self-sufficient.
They would grow vegetables and bake their own bread. My father, in particular, never took anything for granted. He did not know his father and he provided for himself from the age of 15 when his mother died. So I was brought up with a sense that money should never be wasted. 

I started during lockdown. A bit late, some would say given my age, but at least I’ve started. In the past, my income has been unpredictable and it has not been easy for me to plan ahead. It always felt like a welcome surprise when money came in. Also, I had other financial priorities.

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The 60-year-old author – born in St Petersburg to Russian parents and assigned mandatory military service assisting the KGB – has been forced to flee his home in Kyiv with his English wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.

If there’s one thing history teaches you, it’s cause and effect. It is so easy to end up homeless in a couple of steps. And it’s incredibly difficult to fulfil your potential if you don’t have a home. 

Fletcher, 37, (above) performed an ‘inappropriate sexual act’ in front of students at the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering during a Zoom class on September 30, 2020, state investigators said

Some cultural bodies have prompted accusations of McCarthyism – the anti-Russian hysteria whipped up during the 1950s – for rushing to cancel Russian culture in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion order.

The golden slippers of Tutankhamun that were left in his tomb.
I touched them last August when I was filming my new Channel 5 series. They are almost 3,500 years old. You can’t even put a value on objects like that. They are priceless. When you touch something that old, you feel a connection to the past – and you realise that what mattered to them matters to us.

I bought that white jacket when I was about 30 because I suddenly thought, this is ridiculous, I’ve got to sometimes buy new clothes.
The first time I wore the jacket was for the wrap party of the TV series I’d been doing. A colleague fell over and cut her wrist on a glass and I took her to hospital. She was fine, but there was a lot of blood and my jacket was ruined. I took that incident as a sign that I shouldn’t have bought it.

Bulgakov, born in Kyiv to a Russian family, wrote about the horrors of the Russian revolution and many of his works were banned by the Soviet government, although Joseph Stalin was known to be fond of one of his plays.

Netflix put its adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina on indefinite hold, and an Italian university course on Fyodor Dostoevsky – the 19th century novelist exiled for defying the Russian state – was withdrawn before it was reinstated after a backlash.

It was a stretch for us at the time. Obviously, it is worth a lot more now, but I have no idea how much. I don’t even want to think about it. It’s the best money decision I have ever made because it has meant my husband and I have had a secure family home in which to bring up our kids.
We’ll probably end up being taken out of there feet first.

I had a deal for two books – one on Helen of Troy and the other on Socrates. I also did three television series in that year. Overall, I think I earned £75,000. But I was working at least 80 hours a week. My kids called my books ‘the treacherous books’ because they hated the fact that the door of my study was closed when I was writing. 

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