Alice Loxton

Alice Loxton is a historian, bestselling author, and broadcaster. She has over three million followers across social media where she shares educational videos about history, heritage and art.^[1]

Loxton at Hatchard's Piccadilly with her first book, UPROAR!

Career

During 2019-2023, Loxton was a presenter, producer and scriptwriter at the History Hit television channel, creating documentaries about historic British locations such as the Roman Baths, Salisbury Cathedral, Sissinghurst, Wells Cathedral, and many others.

Her first book, UPROAR! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London, which came out in March 2023,^[2] explored the lives of notable Georgian satirists, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank. It was described as "splendid and wonderfully readable" by The Guardian,^[3] and praised in The Times.^[4]

Her second book, the "unconventional and witty"^[5] Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, came out in September 2024,^[2] and was an instant 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.^[6]

Loxton has appeared as a presenter on BBC, History Hit, Sky, Channel 5,^[7] and writes book reviews and comment for newspapers, including The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and has been a part of various festivals.^[8][9][10] 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 2021, she filmed a Shakespeare documentary with television presenter Dan Snow for History Hit.^[11][12] Snow called Loxton the "next big thing in history".^[13]

In early 2023, at 27 years old, she had over a million followers on Instagram and 600,000 followers on TikTok.^[2] In 2024, Loxton helped set up the History Extra 30 Under 30 Competition.^{[citation needed]}

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 and it was announced that she is an ambassador for the National Trust^[14]. In July 2025, it was announced that her book about "England's forgotten queen", Eleanor, will be published by Pan Macmillan in November.^[15]

Publications

• Uproar!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London (Icon Books, 2023)
• Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Pan Macmillan, 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."^[16]