Alice Loxton
ONE TO WATCH
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“Alice Loxton is the star of her generation - the next big thing in history” - Dan Snow
Alice Loxton is 29-year-old historian, presenter and Sunday Times bestselling author with over three million followers on social media.
PRESENTER
She is passionate about bringing history to mainstream audiences, having worked with many charities and organisations such as BBC News, BBC Radio London, Meta, Sky Arts, Channel 5, Channel 4, Times Radio, BBC Bitesize, Christie’s, Sotheby’s, The National Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Trust, Hamilton, Wicked, History Hit, 10 Downing Street, LADBible, PBS, Minecraft, Xbox, Manchester Museum, Liverpool Museum etc.
Alice has presented many history documentaries, been interviewed as a talking head, and appeared on live international broadcasts. You can see many of my documentaries at History Hit TV and on the History Hit YouTube channel. Her agent is Helen Purvis - please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Alice has also been the host of several podcasts such as A History of the World in Spy Objects, BBC Bitesize Elizabeth I Revision and Monet - Century of Change, which was produced for Museum Barberini.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Alice brings history to audiences through platforms such as TikTok and Instagram (@history_alice). She has 1.8 million followers on Instagram, 900k on TikTok, 300k on Threads, 300k on Facebook, to name a few.
Alice has filmed at many incredible historic locations such as 10 Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, The National Gallery and many more.
WRITING
Alice has written three non-fiction history books.
Her debut, UPROAR!, was released in 2023, and had a wonderful reception. It was long listed for Blackwell’s Book of the Year and reviewed in The Times, The New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Spectator, BBC History Magazine, Country Life and The Mail on Sunday. It was also covered in The Telegraph, and appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends and Times Radio.
Her second book, Eighteen, was published in August 2024 by Pan Macmillan, and an instant Sunday Times bestseller, with publicity appearances on many channels such as Virgin Radio and podcasts such as Jane and Fi on Times Radio. It was Blackwell’s Book of the Year 2024, and shortlisted as Waterstones Book of the Year.
Alices’s third book, Eleanor, was released in November 2025, and launched at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.
For books Alice is represented by Hardman and Swainson. She also writes in the papers - reviews, comment, culture - for The Times, Telegraph, Spectator and elsewhere.
LIVE
Alice has appeared as a guest speaker and panellist on many occasions, including with 10 Downing Street, Meta, The Hay Festival, The National Archives, The V&A Museum, The London Original Print Fair, Oxford Literary Festival, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, Times Radio, BBC Radio 4, Channel 7, BBC Radio London, BBC News, The Royal Collection Trust, Chalke History Festival and the History Hit Book Club.
She has interviewed many historians and individuals about their work including Peter Frankopan, Sir Don McCullin, Philippa Langley, Saul David, Katy Hessel, and Dan Jones.
GENERAL HISTORY PROJECTS
Alice is on a mission to improve heritage and history, particularly getting younger generations involved. She has worked with the National Trust, as well as being asked to speak at 10 Downing Street, on a DCMS Select Committee Panel, the Hay Festival, Oxford Literary Festival and many other places.
She founded the History Extra 30 Under 30 Competition in 2024, which sought to shine a light on young people in the UK who are doing brilliant things in the history world.
She also set up the Chalke History Festival Young Historians’ tent, which seeks to shine a light on up and coming historians, and give them a platform at those early stages of their career.
Alice is delighted to be an ambassador for the National Trust, a patron for the British Pilgrimage Trust, and a mentor for the King’s Foundation 35 Under 35 Network.
In 2025 Alice was a judge for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
