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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 11h

Something really fishy going on with absentee ballots for overseas voters for the American midterms. In all the years I have lived in the UK I have never not received a ballot. This year it seems to have gone missing. What do I do? Any suggestions? Apparently it was meant to have arrived mid-Sept.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📅 #onthisday 30 Sept 1888 Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are killed in what became the “Double Event”. Two women, two full lives, later reduced to a myth. Hallie Rubenhold reminds us that justice lies in remembering who they were, not who killed them. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/376763 #otd

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A bit more context to this photo - the event was held in the very room where Crippen and Ethel had their hearing in 1910.

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Bow Street Museum @bowstreetmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A fantastic speaker and a fantastic location We welcomed Hallie Rubenhold back to Bow Street to discuss her latest book, Story of a Murder, in the building where Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve had their committal hearing. Hallie detailed how they were eventually brought to justice.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Clothing history people, am I imagining it or does it look like the new Sense and Sensibility is set in the late 1790s?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

By all means, do read books in addition to The Five. You’ll find the people who I ‘claim don’t exist’ cited in my bibliography and end notes. For 7 years some people have claimed that I and The Five have dishonoured the victims. Please. Enough of this nonsense.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TOMORROW at 5pm at the Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice I'll be talking about Dr Crippen, Belle Elmore and Ethel Le Neve in the very spot where Crippen & Ethel stood! See my linktree and website for details.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There’s got to be a Welsh word that expresses the joy of watching anything with Matthew Rhys in it.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This really is worth a watch. A mother of mixed-race children in Piddington breaks down when thinking about the bigotry that's been revealed in her village. It's so awful to see how quickly the mask of politeness can fall off to reveal the evil face of racism beneath.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My next book (and current project - see you in 2-3 years folks) Sea of Darkness has made it into Publisher’s Lunch!

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you’re in the UK I’m on Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics tonight at 9:00 on BBC Radio 4!

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You know you’re middle aged when the supermarket is playing your tunes and you think, I’ll just linger here in the frozen food aisle a bit longer to hear Fat Boy Slim.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not. Interested. In. Harry. And. Meghan.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 14/08/2026

What a grubby little media morality play this has all been. My thoughts to his family.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s that time of year again when all the media outlets decide that only pretty white girls in tiny tops (and a handful of white boys on the Times site) pass their A levels. When are we going to outgrow this?

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’ve lifted this from Facebook (thank you @thriftingtreasure) because it’s so batshit and yet says everything about our unfortunate and bizarre relationship with someone who slaughtered women.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That’s what the fight is all about. Historians do matter, and the historiographies of slavery and the Revolution formed in the final decades of the 20th century& the beginning of the 21st have shaped current-day understandings about so much.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This Simon Levy thing is so depressing. It’s just more of the same thing.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Join the ‘Author Credibility Society’, folks. Desperate times call for desperate book scams.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Are you in Cornwall next week? I am! I’ll be at Waterstones Truro on the night of Monday the 10th discussing Story of a Murder. Please come along!

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This comment wins the Most-British-Comment-Of-The-Day Award.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I know Tate are skint. But it's one thing not competing on salary with Louvre Abu Dhabi or the Met, and another not competing with a delivery gig at Papa John's pizza.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

No matter what you think of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, it would never have been made without a load of people who valued and were trained in the arts and humanities.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

On that note, how many of us came to love classical music through Bugs Bunny? My point is: you don't have to come to these subjects through traditional channels! There are many ways into art and history and music.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

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Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

WE ARE THE DEAD Out Spring 2027 Preorder now...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have huge news to share - Sea of Darkness will be my next book! The background research to write the proposal alone has taken me a year. Now the real work begins! The Bookseller goes on to say…

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On graduating medical school, Arthur Conan Doyle drew himself waving a diploma over his head with a caption: "Licensed to Kill." My book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell, who became the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Available for preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris

A simple doodle of Conan Doyle holding his diploma and jumping joyously in the air. The caption reads: Licensed to Kill

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There are many things I often find quite surreal about being a well-known author, but few match that slightly creepy feeling when a stranger (with the help of AI) has written your ‘biography’ and is selling it online. Never mind the AI generated photo on the cover that looks nothing like you.

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Out of Order Book Club @outoforderbookclub.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Despite the heat playing havoc with my focus, 'Story of a Murder' kept 100% of my attention. I consumed (too much?) true crime as a teen, and I was steeped in the Belle Elmore was a terrible wife/harridan narrative. Just like 'The Five', @hallierubenhold.bsky.social has rewired my brain again.

The front cover of a hardback book: Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenfold. It looks a little battered because it is a library book! At the centre of the cover is a black and white image of Belle Elmore dressed to the nines in a publicity photo for the Music Halls complete with a big feather covered hat and flowers covering the top half of her dress.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Farage spectacle is evidence that, for a certain type of person, the absolute worst thing you can do is make them declare income and possibly maybe pay some tax

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Of course he was going to interfere in the World Cup. Win by any means. Tilt the table. Load the dice.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Another week, another journey on an over-heated train without air conditioning, only 2 working toilets, no trolley service and broken plug sockets. The train before and the train after this one have been cancelled. Great work #EastMidlandRail. Making us all proud.

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Redskies @redskies.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fascinating, astounding in its detail and depth. #StoryOfAMurder #BookSky

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s paperback day for #StoryofaMurder ! In honour of that, let’s answer a few questions about the Crippen murder… hop aboard…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

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The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

After writing #StoryofaMurder I will never again be able to take Kwells without thinking of these two.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My advice to Andy Burnham as a fellow Humanities degree holder: before you take proffered advice (with which you will be inundated), use your degree’s critical skills. Which interests are being represented, with what evidence, intent and financial backing, for example? To whose benefit?

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Welcome aboard #southwesternrailways where the rolling stock is so old that the air conditioning breaks when it’s too hot outside (or so I’ve been told). Inside temp is at least 30. we’ve been given water. I’ve got a 2 hour journey ahead of me.

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