Alice Loxton
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Alice Loxton is a bestselling author, historian and presenter, with more than three million followers on social media (@history_alice). She is passionate about bringing history to new audiences and has worked with organisations including the National Trust, the Royal Academy, English Heritage, the National Gallery, Tate, the King’s Foundation and 10 Downing Street. Loxton judged the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2025 and the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award in 2026. She is the author of three bestselling books, including Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen, for which she was a winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, which was named Blackwell’s Book of the Year in 2024.
Books by Alice Loxton
An illuminating history of Britain in 21 paintings by bestselling historian Alice Loxton