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Julian Harold Hudson (born 9 January 1970) is an
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archaeologist,
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and
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, best known for presenting the
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series ''
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.'' He also frequently presents sections of the environmental documentary series ''
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'' on
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.


Early life

Hudson was born in the town of
Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a population of 122,000 in 2011. The demonym is Colcestrian. Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colch ...
, in
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, in 1970. He is the son of Pam and Cliff Hudson. He was brought up in a Bed and Breakfast hotel run by his mother for 40 years, in the former village of
Lexden Lexden is a suburb of Colchester and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Colchester, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England. It was formerly a village, and has previously been called Lessendon, Lassendene and ...
, now a suburb of Colchester. His father was a mechanical engineer and a technical director at E H Bentall & Co in the large village of Heybridge in the
Maldon District Maldon is a local government district in Essex, England. The council is based in Maldon, and the district includes other notable settlements such as Burnham-on-Crouch, Heybridge, Wickham Bishops, Southminster, Tolleshunt D'Arcy and Tollesbu ...
of Essex, frequently working abroad. Hudson attributes his conversational style of presentation to his experience from a young age of meeting people at the bed and breakfast from many different backgrounds and nationalities.


Education

Hudson was educated at two independent schools: at
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and later
Ipswich School Ipswich School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for pupils aged 3 to 18 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. North of the town centre, Ipswich School has four parts on three adjacent sites. The Pre-Prep and Nursery ...
, in the county town of
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in Suffolk, where he boarded from the age of eleven. After school, he studied Field Archaeology at
Lampeter University University of Wales, Lampeter ( cy, Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) was a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822, and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, it was the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, with limited ...
(renamed the ''University of Wales, Lampeter'' in 1996), in the town of
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in
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in south west
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, followed by military training at
RMA Sandhurst The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS or RMA Sandhurst), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is one of several military academy, military academies of the United Kingdom and is the British Army's initial Commissioned officer, officer train ...
in Berkshire. He later took a master's degree in Archaeology at Durham University. He attended Durham from 1994-1995 and was a member of
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.


Life and career

After initially briefly pursuing a career as an army officer, Hudson moved into TV production in 1996, focusing on historical programmes. Working initially for Discovery Channel, he then moved to
Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
's ''
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,'' BBC 2's '' Horizon,'' and three military history series for the BBC's Richard Holmes. After becoming lead presenter on
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's ''The Making of England,'' and making '' Have I Been Here Before?'' with
Phillip Schofield Phillip Bryan Schofield (born 1 April 1962) is an English television presenter who works for ITV. He is currently the co-presenter of ITV's '' This Morning'' (2002–present) and ''Dancing on Ice'' (2006–2014, 2018–present) alongside Holl ...
, he developed and produced the series ''Revival'' for ITV, which gained a Royal Television Society nomination. Since 2007, he has been the main presenter on the BBC's ''
Escape to the Country ''Escape to the Country'' is a British daytime television reality property-buying/real estate programme, created by Talkback Thames, which premieres on network BBC One, produced by John Comerford and is repeated on BBC Two. It first aired on 14 ...
''. He was the initial presenter on BBC One's ''Britain's Empty Homes'', fronting the first series from January 2010 to February 2012. He presented the ten episodes of ''Defenders of the Sky'' for the History Channel H2 in 2015. Hudson contributes regularly to Countryfile Magazine and to
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magazine. An article published in 2022 indicates that he is a "regular contributor to BBC Radio Wales". He also authored the book "Walled Gardens". In August 2017 he graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Reserve, specifically in the
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) is the most senior regiment of the British Army Reserve. The regiment was formed in 1539 during the reign of by King Henry VIII, making it the second oldest regiment of the British Army (The Hono ...
. According to a June 2022 report, he was "assigned to 77 Brigade – a combined Regular and Reserve unit".


President, Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, (CPRW)

In 2015 Jules Hudson became President of
CPRW The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) ( cy, Ymgyrch Diogelu Cymru Wledig (YDCW)), originally named the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales, is a charity in Wales that aims to secure the protection and enhancement of the co ...
, a Welsh national charity that aims to secure the protection and enhancement of the country's landscapes and environment. He has entered enthusiastically into work of the charity and in November 2015 re-launched the
Best kept village A best kept village is a village that has won one of the annual county competitions in the United Kingdom for its tidiness, appropriateness, and typicality. The competitions have been nationally organized by the Campaign to Protect Rural England ...
competition for
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. It is hoped that this will evolve into a competition covering all of Wales.


Personal life

Hudson lives in
Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthsh ...
with his wife Tania and son, Jack. The presenter says that he is a "keen countryman and craftsman" .... who "spends his spare time renovating his period home and garden in Herefordshire and rescuing old furniture".


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Julian 1970 births Living people Alumni of University College, Durham Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter British archaeologists English television presenters Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst People educated at Ipswich School