Hallie Rubenhold
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
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Events! Events! Events! For details and to book tickets go to the Linktree in my bio. #StoryofaMurder
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.
It’s amazing.
December 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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.
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.
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.
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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.
December 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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.
It still amazes me to see how many lives have been touched by The Five.
a piece of history, with thanks to the author @hallierubenhold.bsky.social — fond memories of managing Hatchards in London & meeting people like Hallie
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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.
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…’
Oct: Oh God, it’s still October!
Nov: No! Too soon.
1 Dec: Resignation
20 Dec: *humming unaware* ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…’
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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…’
Oct: Oh God, it’s still October!
Nov: No! Too soon.
1 Dec: Resignation
20 Dec: *humming unaware* ‘Just hear those sleigh bells jingling…’
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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
'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
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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
'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
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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).
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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).
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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
December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
Found this at the back of a bookshelf. Should have put most historians out of business long ago.
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What some people think history is…
Found this at the back of a bookshelf. Should have put most historians out of business long ago.
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
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
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New blog! I devoured Story of a Murder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social
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Story of a Murder
On 1 February 1910 music-hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her North London home. In Story of a Murder: the Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen Hallie Rubenhold describes the lif...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
New blog! I devoured Story of a Murder by @hallierubenhold.bsky.social
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Trying to think and write with my decorator drilling into the opposite wall is perhaps the greatest challenge I have faced this year.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Trying to think and write with my decorator drilling into the opposite wall is perhaps the greatest challenge I have faced this year.
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There's already a ton of replies but I really think everyone should go read @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Story of a Murder
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
There's already a ton of replies but I really think everyone should go read @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Story of a Murder
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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
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
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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...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
Pluribus is basically about what would happen if ChatGPT took over the world.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pluribus is basically about what would happen if ChatGPT took over the world.
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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.
Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold - 1. Peopled History - BBC Sounds
Hallie Rubenhold challenges the ideas of what history is and the stories it can tell.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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.
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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...
BBC Audio | Bookclub | Hallie Rubenhold
Author Hallie Rubenhold speaks about her prize-winning book of non-fiction, The Five.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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...
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"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
“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
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"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
“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.
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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...
BBC Radio 4 - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold, 3. Home
Every room in every home has a story to tell. UK census records are a good place to start.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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...
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@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/...
I am fully here for the profoundly messy lives of social history. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold - 1. Peopled History - BBC Sounds
Hallie Rubenhold challenges the ideas of what history is and the stories it can tell.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
@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/...
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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...
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.
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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.
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#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...
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...
BBC Radio 4 - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold, 1. Peopled History
Hallie Rubenhold challenges the ideas of what history is and the stories it can tell.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#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...
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...