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
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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!!
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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.
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This is quite something.
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'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BBC Sounds - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold on BBC Sounds.
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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.
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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...
That thing when you wake up to find that you’ve written a whole other book you never knew about.
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
That thing when you wake up to find that you’ve written a whole other book you never knew about.
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On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Ugh. Dark at 5:00.
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ugh. Dark at 5:00.
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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!
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October 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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!
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#History #podcast
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#History #podcast
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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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#History #Podcast #TrueCrime
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October 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 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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#History #Podcast #TrueCrime
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#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.
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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.
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🚨 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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#History #TrueCrime #Victorian
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#History #TrueCrime #Victorian
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 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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#History #TrueCrime #Victorian
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#History #TrueCrime #Victorian
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🚨 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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#TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast #Victorian
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October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 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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#TrueCrime #HistoryPodcast #Victorian
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#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…
October 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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…
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🚨 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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#TrueCrime #Victorian
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#TrueCrime #Victorian
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 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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#TrueCrime #Victorian
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#TrueCrime #Victorian