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When I was doing my academic research before I became a TV historian, I would also teach and lecture.
But that was never a problem for me because I love what I do. I have always managed to make my expenditure meet what I earn.

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I like a massage wherever I am in the world.
When I'm doing TV shows, I am often in really weird positions - crawling through tombs or hanging off the edges of ancient sites. So a massage is my treat to myself. I will spend anything from £35 to £135. I have about four a year.

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The golden slippers of Tutankhamun that were left in his tomb.
I touched them last August when I was filming my new Channel 5 series. They are almost 3,500 years old. You can't even put a value on objects like that. They are priceless. When you touch something that old, you feel a connection to the past - and you realise that what mattered to them matters to us.

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I had a deal for two books - one on Helen of Troy and the other on Socrates. I also did three television series in that year. Overall, I think I earned £75,000. But I was working at least 80 hours a week. My kids called my books 'the treacherous books' because they hated the fact that the door of my study was closed when I was writing. 

The 54-year-old academic and broadcaster told Donna Ferguson she has never owned a credit card, nor made any major mistakes with money.
But she is prepared to spend £135 on a massage as a treat because of the 'weird positions' she often finds herself in, crawling through tombs while filming at historic sites.

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It was a stretch for us at the time. Obviously, it is worth a lot more now, but I have no idea how much. I don't even want to think about it. It's the best money decision I have ever made because it has meant my husband and I have had a secure family home in which to bring up our kids.
We'll probably end up being taken out of there feet first.

Also, I work hard to earn my money and I like to know what I'm spending it on. Somehow, putting my money out into the big investment world doesn't feel like what I want to do with it. I want to see what I'm buying. 

They grew up during the war and believed in being self-sufficient.
They would grow vegetables and bake their own bread. My father, in particular, never took anything for granted. He did not know his father and he provided for himself from the age of 15 when his mother died. So I was brought up with a sense that money should never be wasted.