Hallie Rubenhold

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

I would be very interested to hear it. Please PM me.

Ugh. Dark at 5:00.

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🚨 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.

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No, but I’ll take that as a recommendation!

Ep 2 is about my mother’s death, Damian.

A bit more about the series…

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

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There’s nothing better than when people like this get owned by actual history.

🚨 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.

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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 🎙️

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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.

He looks even creepier as a waxwork.

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 !

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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

#A_NewHope ✊

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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.

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Good question.

Sky HISTORY celebrates young filmmakers with 'The History Award' Sky HISTORY launched The History Award, an ambitious pilot built to spark creativity and a genuine love of the past in students

The winner’s film is now online. Honestly, I was blown away by the story telling skills of these student filmmakers.

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I’m glad you’ve become a convert, Scott.

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.

Ive not been able to access the article, but I’ve never understood the attitude ‘young people shouldn’t strive for a better education’. This is a culturally self-destructive instinct which should be discouraged.

Story of a Murder | Cheltenham Festivals Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning true crime sensation The Five, returns with a powerful new work. She joins critic Stephanie M

Join me tomorrow evening in Cheltenham!

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In the 20th century things changed tremendously, but I often think of previous centuries and how little change there was in people’s expectations and experiences.

Fascinating!
I’ve often argued that very little changed in terms of ordinary people’s lives over the centuries.

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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...