A Day At The Ashmolean Museum, with Bettany Hughes

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12 жыл бұрын

A day at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 2012.
Presented by Bettany Hughes, Writer and Historian.
Produced by Eye to Eye Television www.eyetoeyetv.co.uk/ and filmed in 2012.

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@android878 Жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved the openness of the Ashmolean. It’s my favourite museum out of all.

@miriammaldonado7296 Жыл бұрын

"Not so that we live in the past, but so that we can learn from it" -Bettany Hughes,. Hitorian and Writer...

@monicacallesarenales5865 Күн бұрын

Love so much this museum ❤️

@AlasdairILoveOxford 9 жыл бұрын

Must have been to the Ashmolean over 30 times but still not tired of it!

@tandemcompound2 2 жыл бұрын

I have a little museum in my garage, I call it the Trashmolean.

@thesilkpainter 4 ай бұрын

I checked everywhere, but I couldn't find the opening times.

@roniquebreauxjordan1302 4 жыл бұрын

Planning our visit

@eileengoldenberg270 3 жыл бұрын

Wish I was closer..

@normplatt7549 Жыл бұрын

very good!

@ashmoleanmuseum Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@treebees 2 жыл бұрын

is vicki butler henderson the woman behind the microphone?

@notnek202 Жыл бұрын

Plunder

@billroberts9182 3 жыл бұрын

What does "Ashmolean" mean?

@orglancs 2 жыл бұрын

What a pity that no-one who knows has bothered to reply! I've looked this up to check the facts. The museum opened in 1683, was based on the vast collection of Elias Ashmole, (1617-1692) and another collection donated by his friend, John Tradescant (1608-1662), after whose father John (1570-1638) a plant is named, tradescantia. The father was gardener to Charles I. (All facts gleaned from The Oxford Reference Dictionary.) They're both very uncommon names, aren't they? I haven't heard of any other Ashmoles or Tradescants.

@billroberts9182 2 жыл бұрын

@@orglancs Well, thank you! I intend to visit the museum when the CCP virus risk recedes. From Alaska.

@kevinchambers1101 Жыл бұрын

It's named after an attorney who donated it. He purchased it from the son of the man that originally assembled it.

@youssefnour5416 3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇱👍

@doranderlamisere5673 3 жыл бұрын

My God, back when we did not have to step back and wear mask

@dale4039 Жыл бұрын

Bettany Hughes is painfully gorgeous

@james-ob9rz 4 жыл бұрын

Oxford is soooloo expensive

@j.lietka9406 3 жыл бұрын

Bettany, you're hot! What do you think of Egypt / Dr Hawas almost demanding their antiquities be returned to them?🤔 Have other countries requested their "property" be returned? Thanks 😉

@christianfrommuslim Жыл бұрын

Paradoxically, a region is more renown if its artefacts are spread around the world, rather than kept in one place. It is also a safety factor against regional conflicts and terror attacks.

@j.lietka9406 Жыл бұрын

@@christianfrommuslim that is true my friend! 🤓 Thank you for the reply!

@michaelboylan5308 5 жыл бұрын

Ms Hughes says,,,the Countess of Carnarvon is giving a talk on her ancestors role in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, I presume the ancestor was her grandfather The talk would be short,,,four words,,,he provided the money, What about Howard Carter,,a two day talk would be too short, As Kenneth Clark said,,,the English aristocracy were as ignorant as swans What an insult to swans, How the English love a Lord

@michaelboylan5308 5 жыл бұрын

Ashmolean, It shows a fine tolerance on your part not to have wiped my acerbic note, My admiration for The Ashmolean Ms Hughes and H, Carter is boundless, I lived in Oxford once,,I miss the High St, toffee shop, I failed to meet Olga Pasternak, Are there any Ashmolean anecdotes about her?, My love is archaic Attic red figure vases, Are all Beazleys notes at the O,C,R,C,,,or do you have some? God,,I miss the toffee and the pubs