I for one (I am sure there are others) rail against the increasingly mediated world we live in, where experience comes packages and second-hand. But … - Bettany Hughes

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I for one (I am sure there are others) rail against the increasingly mediated world we live in, where experience comes packages and second-hand. But we must acknowledge that the majority of the global population will not have the opportunity to visit to see a 15th-centry representation of , or travel to Athens to visit the , or cross the to appreciate 's strategic importance. Nor will they have the time in their working day to sit in a quiet room and spend an uninterrupted morning reading and digesting an academic publication as academics can (sometimes).

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About Bettany Hughes

(born May 1967 in , UK) is an English , historian, author, and television broadcaster.

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Alternative Names: Bettany Mary Hughes
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