Alice Loxton
Alice Loxton | |
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| Born | 1996 |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
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Alice Loxton (born 1996) is an English historian, biographer, author, and broadcaster, who promotes interests in history through social media.
Early life
[edit]Educated at the University of Edinburgh, where after four years she graduated MA in history, Loxton also attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. as an exchange student.[1] At Edinburgh, she was a member of the University Officers' Training Corps, attached to the University Royal Naval Unit East Scotland.[1]
Career
[edit]After graduating, in September 2019 Loxton gained a job on the History Hit television channel, working as a researcher and presenter with Dan Snow.[2] She remained there until January 2023, after launching a History Hit channel on TikTok. She soon also created her own there, @history_alice. By May 2024, she had some 800,000 followers on TikTok and had published hundreds of short videos there and on Instagram.[3]
Her second book, Eighteen, includes studies of the teenage years of Queen Elizabeth I and Richard Burton.[4]
Publications
[edit]- Uproar!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London (Icon Books, 2023)
- Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (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."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tom Jackson, Chris McAndrew, "Was going to university worth it for us?" The Times, 19 July 2023, archived at archive.ph, accessed 29 November 2024
- ^ "Secrets of Shakespeare's Stratford", historyhit.com, accessed 29 November 2024
- ^ Sophie Foster, 'We are surrounded by history and it's extraordinary', Thurrock Mail, 29 May 2024
- ^ "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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