Sat 09 May
|Memorial Hall
Bettany Hughes OBE
In Conversation with Mark Webster on: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Time & Location
09 May 2026, 20:00
Memorial Hall, School Ln, Chalfont Saint Giles HP8 4JJ, UK
About the event
The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases for the reaches of human imagination.
Now only the great pyramid remains fully standing, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today.
In a thrilling, colourful narrative enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries, bestselling historian Bettany Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time. This is a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others. She explores traces of the Wonders themselves and the traces they have left in history.
A magisterial work of historical storytelling, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World reinforces the exciting and nourishing notion that humans can make the impossible happen.
Bettany Hughes is a multi award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 30 years to the vibrant and inclusive communication of the past and its place in modern lives. She has written and presented over 100 TV and radio documentaries for broadcasters and streamers including the BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Discovery, The History Channel, National Geographic, Amazon Prime and ITV. Bettany has been honoured with numerous awards including the Medlicott Medal for
services to history, Europe’s Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history. Her latest book The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, is being translated into 10 languages and has been adapted for international television.
Bettany is a contributing editor of Wanderlust travel and adventure magazine, and Founder and Creative Director of the award-winning content production company Sandstone Global. Bettany has a social media following of 300,000 and her content reaches 2.3 billion every year.
Local resident Mark Webster is a journalist of over thirty years’
standing and a former correspondent for ITN.