{{Short description|English historian, author, broadcaster}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Promotional|date=December 2025}}
{{Infobox person | name = Alice Loxton | image = Alice Loxton at the book launch for Eleanor.jpg | caption = Alice Loxton at the book launch for ''Eleanor'' | birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk | education = University of Edinburgh | occupation = Historian, author | website = {{URL|https://aliceloxton.com/}} }}
'''Alice Loxton''' is a 31 year old British historian, author, and broadcaster. She has over three million followers across social media where she shares educational videos about history, heritage and art.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Humphries |first=Stephen |title=How 'History Alice' is getting Gen Z to learn about the past |date=2024-11-27 |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2024/1127/history-alice-loxton-eighteen-gen-z |website=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Early life== Loxton was educated at Stratford Girls Grammar School<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/dan-snow-and-alice-loxton-filimg-in-stratford-for-television-9210103/}}</ref>, and then the University of Edinburgh, where she studied history. She attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. as an exchange student.
==Career== During 2019-2023, Loxton was a presenter, producer and scriptwriter at the History Hit television channel, creating documentaries about British heritage sites such as the Roman Baths, Salisbury Cathedral, Sissinghurst and Wells Cathedral.
Her first book, ''UPROAR! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London'', which came out in March 2023,<ref name="get">{{Cite web |title=Alice Loxton: In Conversation |last=Kilroy |first=Debbie |url=https://gethistory.co.uk/interviews/alice-loxton-in-conversation |date=2023-01-01 |website=Get History |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> explored the lives of notable Georgian satirists, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.<ref>{{Cite news |title=This month's best paperbacks |date=2024-03-06 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2024/mar/06/this-months-best-paperbacks-margaret-atwood-curtis-sittenfeld-and-more |journal=The Guardian |issn=1756-3224 |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Uproar! by Alice Loxton review — the raucous heyday of political cartoons |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/uproar-satire-scandal-and-printmakers-in-georgian-london-by-alice-loxton-review-f2wtvmnr2 |date=2023-02-21 |journal=The Times |issn=0140-0460 |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Her second book, the "unconventional and witty"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wood |first=Heloise |date=2023-12-13 |title=Pan Mac pre-empts Loxton's 'unconventional and witty' book about historical icons aged 18 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/pan-mac-pre-empts-loxtons-unconventional-and-witty-book-about-historical-icons-aged-18 |issn=0006-7539 |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> ''Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives'', came out in September 2024,<ref name="get" /> was a ''Sunday Times'' bestseller and winner of Blackwell's Book of the Year 2024. It explored the lives of notable 18-year-olds in 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/products/eighteen-a-history-of-britain-in-18-young-lives-1 |title=Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives |website=The National Archives (United Kingdom) |access-date=2024-11-29 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Loxton's third book, ''Eleanor: A 200 Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen'', explores the legacy of Eleanor of Castille and the Eleanor Crosses . It was launched at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-17 |title=Alice Loxton’s ELEANOR is launched at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey! |url=https://www.hardmanswainson.com/alice-loxtons-eleanor-is-launched-at-poets-corner-in-westminster-abbey/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=Hardman & Swainson |language=en-US}}</ref>
thumb|Loxton at Hatchard's Piccadilly with her first book, ''UPROAR!''Loxton has appeared as a presenter on BBC, History Hit, Sky, Channel 5,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stokes |first=Tim |title=The secret spy objects that helped shape the world |date=2023-11-30 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67456282 |website=BBC |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> and writes book reviews and comment for newspapers, including ''The Times'' and ''The Daily Telegraph'', and has been a part of various festivals.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Michael Palin, Ian Hislop, Anthony Scaramucci and Alice Loxton Announced for Chalke History Festival |url=https://salisburyandavon.co.uk/michael-palin-ian-hislop-anthony-scaramucci-and-alice-loxton-announced-for-chalke-history-festival/ |date=2025-04-16 |journal=The Salisbury and Avon Gazette |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Winchester Heritage Open Days: Alice Loxton kicks off event |url=https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23782669.winchester-heritage-open-days-alice-loxton-kicks-off-event/ |date=2023-09-11 |last=Barber |first=Kimberley |journal=The Hampshire Chronicle |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Alice Loxton to give fundraising talk for Hampshire History Trust |last=Atkinson |first=Christopher |date=2023-07-10 |url=https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23634210.alice-loxton-give-fundraising-talk-hampshire-history-trust/ |journal=The Hampshire Chronicle |access-date=2025-11-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She has worked with many different organisations to bring history to new audiences, including 10 Downing Street, The National Gallery, The Royal Academy, The King's Foundation, Tate, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Trust, English Heritage, Microsoft, and Meta.
In 2024, Loxton helped set up the History Extra 30 Under 30 Competition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our 2024 ‘30 under 30’ list {{!}} HistoryExtra |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/30-under-30-list-2024/ |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=www.historyextra.com |language=en}}</ref> thumb|In 2023 Loxton hosted 'Lessons at 10' at 10 Downing Street. In January 2025, she had over three million followers across social media, with the handle @history_alice.
Loxton is an ambassador for the National Trust,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About the British Pilgrimage Trust |url=https://www.britishpilgrimage.org/about-us |website=British Pilgrimage Trust}}</ref> a patron of the British Pilgrimage Trust,<ref name=":0" /> and a mentor for The King's Foundation.
At the Chalke Valley History Festival in 2025, she appeared as a speaker to discuss her work. During the audience Q&A, she was asked about her research and writing process. Many attendees and commentators raised questions amidst ghost-writing rumours following the event; however, no substantiated evidence has been published to support these claims.
==Publications== *''UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London'' (Icon Books, 2023) *''Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives'' (Pan Macmillan, 2024) *''Eleanor: A 200 Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen'' (Pan Macmillan, 2025)
==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."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spanoudi |first=Melina |title=Historian Alice Loxton's Eighteen crowned Blackwell's Book of the Year 2024 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/historian-alice-loxtons-eighteen-crowned-blackwells-book-of-the-year-2024 |journal=The Bookseller |date=2024-11-21 |access-date=2024-11-29 |issn=0006-7539 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Personal life== Loxton was born in Ipswich and now lives in London.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Choudhury |first=Yasmin |date=2025-11-19 |title=Alice Loxton: ‘I met David Beckham but I’m more starstruck by buildings’ |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/alice-loxton-i-met-david-beckham-but-im-more-starstruck-by-buildings-kg6rhzvcc |access-date=2025-11-21 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.tiktok.com/@history_alice?lang=en @history_alice], TikTok *[https://x.com/history_alice History Alice], X.com *{{IMDb name|nm13706099}} *[https://aliceloxton.com Aliceloxton.com]
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