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"?

Binging #BadWomen #RipperRetold and #BlackoutRipper on @bbcsounds and they are riveting and terrifying in equal measure. True crime investigations with a different point of view - the victims’ lives - a must listen! @hallierubenhold.bsky.social

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The surreal experience of coming out of the cinema after watching #OneBattleAfterAnother and seeing this in the headlines.

I agree with every single recommendation and Naomi’s sentiments. This city is part of my bones and my heart. I feel it defines who I am. Never have I felt a stronger sense of belonging to this place than in recent times.

Coram hosted a ‘Tea and Talk’ with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social hosted by @maddypelling.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of her new book Story of a Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen. Catch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/wXSM2P6Q4cM?... #WeAreCoram

Don’t say we didn’t warn you…back in 1984!

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Sadiq Khan has said a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship following the election of Trump. “It’s also our liberal values that make us stand out – celebrating our diversity in London as a strength, not as a threat to society.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This shouldn’t be hard. Or rare. But well done all the same.

Trying to get into central London and not feeling very charitable towards the RMT right about now.

Chances that the 4 eras being represented are Medieval, Tudor, Victorian and WWII? 100%. The likelihood there will be some spooky Jack the Ripper element in the Victorian village? Also 100%

Well, I woke up this morning and was completely stunned to learn that #StoryofaMurder had won the True Crime Book of the Year Award at Crime Con in the US!

The potential uses for this sign are endless.

⚡ SERIES 20 — TRAILER OUT 8 SEPT ⚡ History Rage is back — bold voices, big rages, no myths spared. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social, @hallierubenhold.bsky.social, @almurray.bsky.social & more. 🎧 Subscribe early on Patreon or Apple Podcasts → www.patreon.com/c/hi... #HistoryRage #Podcast #History

Finished watching 1883. The series should be turned into a drinking game where every time a character says the word ‘freedom’ you knock back a shot. The broad use of the term ‘freedom’ in Hollywood films and in discourse in the US is fascinating. Freedom from what or to do what is never articulated.