| Alice Loxton | |
| Birth Date: | 1996 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Edinburgh |
Alice Loxton (born 1996) is an English historian, biographer, author, and broadcaster, who promotes interests in history through social media.
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]
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]
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]