Bettany Hughes, Tom Holland | Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities | Jaipur Literature Festival

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities: Bettany Hughes & Tom Holland

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 mediaeval 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.

Tom Holland is the author of four books on ancient and early medieval history: Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and In the Shadow of the Sword. He has translated Herodotus for Penguin Classics. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from the origins of Islam to dinosaurs.

Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Quran to Shakespeare, this city with three names —Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul— resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries, both real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was known simply as The City' but as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, it is a story. In her epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities. Introduced by historian Tom Holland.

Presented by Aga Khan Foundation

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Links to the other session by Bettany Hughes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93FdSzMs7A
Links to the other session by Tom Holland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmZTvuSl5Uk&t=3s

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