And while I’m recommending worthy watches during this festive period, #Pluribus is fantastic - a gripping, bizarre, thought provoking (and very Vince Gilligan) exploration of what it means to be human - which is the best way of describing it without spoilers. It’s amazing.

This film is BREATHTAKING. A masterclass in how to tell a simple life story with maximum impact. #TrainDreams is cinematic poetry - and also an example of subtle and intelligent period drama.

It has begun. Stay away from the supermarkets, children.

It’s readers like this who make writing books so special. It still amazes me to see how many lives have been touched by The Five.

How Christmas music wears us down gradually: Oct: Oh God, it’s still October! Nov: No! Too soon. 1 Dec: Resignation 20 Dec: *humming unaware* ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…’

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Thank you Hallie. It’s brought the sadness I’m feeling for Annie and her family home in a very literal way. I also found the former Merry Wives of Windsor pub where she asked for directions (at one time a restaurant run by Antony Worrall Thompson).

A bit gobsmacked today reading Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five to find mention of this house that’s only 100m away from where I live in Windsor. Just before Christmas 1886, Annie Chapman walked from Whitechapel to visit her estranged husband here at 1 Richmond Villas. @hallierubenhold.bsky.social

What some people think history is… Found this at the back of a bookshelf. Should have put most historians out of business long ago.

History lovers, if you haven’t seen Netflix’s #DeathbyLightning, do watch it. Only 4 episodes about 2 men, President James Garfield and the man who killed him. What I loved about this little discussed episode in history is that it focuses on the characters of the men involved, and something else…/1

New blog! I devoured Story of a Murder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social 📚💙 deadgoodreading.com/story-of-a-m...

Trying to think and write with my decorator drilling into the opposite wall is perhaps the greatest challenge I have faced this year.

There's already a ton of replies but I really think everyone should go read @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Story of a Murder

THE FIVE by Hallie Rubenhold is a stunning intervention into the sensationalism and obsession with Jack the Ripper. what was life really like for actual real women in late Victorian London?? way more interesting than how they died!! @hallierubenhold.bsky.social

I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no. This is quite something. metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...

Pluribus is basically about what would happen if ChatGPT took over the world.

Ep. 1 of @hallierubenhold.bsky.social’s #IntimateHistories podcast really resonates. “History is the story of people, & people’s lives are meaningful & profoundly messy.” Social history, she says, is the counterweight to ‘great man’ history — I think family, local & house historians would all agree.

Great discussion with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social about her book, The Five: The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed by Jack The Ripper! Recommended reading & listening. 💫 #book www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Whatever happened to November? I like November. It’s autumn, a beautiful month of orange and brown, of cool days and mists, not of jingle bells and Santas. Please, can we have November back? I don’t want 2 months of Christmas.

My neighbourhood WhatsApp group is now buzzing with questions about the history of our street after today's Initimate Histories. People, street and house history is SO fascinating and can lead to some real discoveries, as it did for me. The UK censuses are amazing. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@hallierubenhold.bsky.social dismantles the Great Man model of history. Lovely stuff! #historyteacher I am fully here for the profoundly messy lives of social history. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My series ‘Intimate Histories’ about how history is not some abstract thing that happened to someone else, but personal to all of us is now available on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Something for your Sunday (tomorrow, Nov 2nd). I’m on James Naughtie’s Book Club on BBC Radio 4 discussing #TheFive with a live (live in September when I recorded it) audience.

#History #Radio Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold Mon 11:45 BBC Radio 4 @hallierubenhold.bsky.social, the historian and bestselling author of The Five and Story of a Murder, examines what the subject of ‘history’ is and makes the case for keeping it personal. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

That thing when you wake up to find that you’ve written a whole other book you never knew about.

On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ugh. Dark at 5:00.

Have you enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "The Five" by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen: www.patreon.com/post... #History #podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 Why the Jack the Ripper legend is useless. 😡 @hallierubenhold.bsky.social explains why it's time to stop trying to solve the mystery. The real story is found in the lives of the five women. 🎧 👉 www.patreon.com/post... #History #Podcast #TrueCrime

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.

🚨 THIS WEEK ON PATREON & APPLE 🚨 Not all of the five came from the stereotypes we’ve been fed. 🏰 Annie Chapman’s early life near Windsor and the royal world is a story few expect. Discover it with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social 🎧 www.patreon.com/post... #History #TrueCrime #Victorian

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 The youngest of the five victims may have been hiding behind a false identity. 👤 Who was Mary Jane Kelly? @hallierubenhold.bsky.social explores the unanswered questions on #HistoryRage. 🎧 www.patreon.com/post...#HistoryRage#TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast #Victorian

Every October without fail, the London Dungeon puts a Jack the Ripper poster like this in my local tube station. It’s like they know I live here…

🚨 THIS WEEK TO SUBSCRIBERS🚨 No DNA test, no theory, no “new suspect” will ever change the past. 🚫 What matters is what the victims’ lives tell us about society then — and now. @hallierubenhold.bsky.social rages on #HistoryRage 🎙️ 🎧 www.patreon.com/post...#HistoryRage#TrueCrime #Victorian

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

After an insanely busy 6 weeks, I’m finally at home at my computer, thinking and working and it feels incredible. My brain is like a dry sponge. And also, I just want to cook nourishing dinners and watch good TV drama.

1910: Music hall star Belle Elmore vanishes. Her friends in the Music Hall Ladies' Guild demand answers, igniting a manhunt for the prime suspect: her fraudster husband, Dr. Crippen. Join me this Saturday in Sheffield at the #OffTheShelfFestival !

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

#A_NewHope ✊

🚨 NEXT WEEK for Subscribers 🚨 Jack the Ripper's victims weren't all prostitutes. @hallierubenhold.bsky.social unveils the truth: Only two engaged in sex work. Their lives were more complex than the myth suggests. Get this early release: www.patreon.com/historyrage or Apple subscriptions.

The winner’s film is now online. Honestly, I was blown away by the story telling skills of these student filmmakers. www.history.co.uk/articles/sky...

If you're intrigued by the Whitechapel murders, if you've read any books on Jack the Ripper, @hallierubenhold.bsky.social's THE FIVE is a must read. It will change the way you look at the crimes and the victims. This week I visited the graves/memorial plaques of the five; here's a pic of the fifth.

Join me tomorrow evening in Cheltenham! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/story...

Alison Brackenbury is a fabulous poet as well as a historian of local and rural life. Her poetry is informed by the same humane ‘people’s history‘ approach. Here’s a link to some of her books: @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/search-resul...

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

I can’t tell you how excited I am to be at #Clivedenlitfest2025 this weekend and in conversation with Ian Rankin and Anthony Horowitz. Please join us!

I’m looking forward to my event at the Henley Literary Festival tomorrow night at 8pm. Join me 👇👇👇👇 www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on-eve...

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?