I was the first female historian to present a history series on TV in the UK in the year 2000. Extraordinary. I had no idea... I did the Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture on BBC2 and said, "Can you find out who was the first?" They said, "It's you." Young girls write to me all the time to say they want to do things like me and it’s the best thing. It makes everything worthwhile. People ask, what's my proudest moment? That response is…

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was the first female historian to present a history series on TV in the UK in the year 2000. Extraordinary. I had no idea... I did the Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture on BBC2 and said, "Can you find out who was the first?" They said, "It's you." Young girls write to me all the time to say they want to do things like me and it’s the best thing. It makes everything worthwhile. People ask, what's my proudest moment? That response is…" in the context of "(25 February 2023), "Interview. Bettany Hughes: 'I end up in tombs all the time, but I'm scared of the dark and claustrophobic'", The Guardian (interview by Katherine Hassell)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.