Alice Loxton
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Alice Loxton is an English historian, author, and broadcaster.
Career
[edit]Between 2019 and 2023, Loxton worked at History Hit television channel, working as a researcher, editor, producer and presenter alongside Dan Snow.
Her first book, UPROAR! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London, explores the lives of notable Georgian satirists, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank. It was described as "splendid and wonderfully readable" by The Guardian.
Her second book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, was an instant Number 1 Times bestseller. It explores the lives of 18 year olds in British history, including studies of the teenage years of Bede, Geoffrey Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth I, Jacques Francis, Jeffrey Hudson, Horatio Nelson, Sarah Biffin, Mary Anning, Richard Burton and Vivienne Westwood.[1]
Loxton regularly appears as a presenter on BBC and Channel 5 platforms, and writes book reviews and comment for newspapers such as The Times.
In 2024, Loxton founded the History Extra 30 Under 30 Competition, and helped organise the Chalke History Festival Young Historian's Day, both of which sought to shine a light on the work of up and coming historians.
In November 2024, she had over 3 million followers across social media, having collaborated with organisations including 10 Downing Street, Microsoft, The National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery.
Publications
[edit]- Uproar!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London (Icon Books, 2023)
- Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Honours
[edit]In November 2024, Loxton's Eighteen, a study of eighteen historical figures at the age of eighteen, gained the Blackwell's Book of the Year Award for 2024. A Blackwell's representative commented: "Playful but authoritative history is a genre which Alice Loxton is speedily making her own."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives", The National Archives, accessed 29 November 2024
- ^ Melina Spanoudi, "Historian Alice Loxton's Eighteen crowned Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024", The Bookseller, 21 November 2024, accessed 29 November 2024
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