Alice Loxton

Alice Loxton
Loxton in 2023
Born1996
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • historian

Alice Loxton (born 1996) is an English historian, biographer, author, and broadcaster, who promotes interests in history through social media.

Early life

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, and sang in the comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore.[1]

Career

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

  • Uproar!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London (Icon Books, 2023)
  • Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (2024)

Honours

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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "Secrets of Shakespeare's Stratford", historyhit.com, accessed 29 November 2024
  3. ^ Sophie Foster, 'We are surrounded by history and it's extraordinary', Thurrock Mail, 29 May 2024
  4. ^ "Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives", The National Archives, accessed 29 November 2024
  5. ^ Melina Spanoudi, "Historian Alice Loxton's Eighteen crowned Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024", The Bookseller, 21 November 2024, accessed 29 November 2024