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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 9h

A cookie factory. Dream job for a15 year old but I couldn’t reach the top shelf so was sacked after the first day.

Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In a miserable world, this genuinely made me smile. Small acts of kindness. Genuine ways we can help to preserve London’s history.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. A lot. Can’t say anymore right now.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

It’s amazing, isn’t it? What she witnessed in the course of her life from the 1880s to the 1960s would have been pretty remarkable.

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

That veil Ethel is wearing would one day end up in her daughter’s dressing up box. Ethel was unrepentant until the bitter end.

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

This is the famous Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, now part of a stunning hotel - the Nomad. Although the actual building is Edwardian, both Henry Fielding and John Fielding (‘the blind justice’) presided here in the 18th century. Many of today’s barristers remember cutting their legal teeth here too

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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 · 23/09/2026

Oh dear. Thats going to drive me mad when I see it.

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

I do love how the woman, girl and dog at the centre look exactly like a Thomas Lawrence painting though.

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

I know, the loose hair in period drama thing drives me insane. Second only to corsets worn directly against the skin and men in leather frock coats.

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

Yes! I'm correct! I'm pleased to say that after all of these years my eighteenth century eye still hasn't failed me. A film set in the 1790s will be a real treat for some of us Georgian nerds @emilybrand.bsky.social @maddypelling.bsky.social @hannahgreig.bsky.social @laurasrobinson.bsky.social

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

Which would be a nod to Austen’s first version of the story, written in 1795.

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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

There are many reasons for this but some of it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what history actually is and in some cases a very deliberate misinterpretation of my work.

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

This is the normal process of history writing, as most historians will agree. It’s not about discovering and enumerating facts. It’s not about owning facts. History is about building arguments. That’s it. I simply can’t see what’s objectionable about that process.

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

‘Serious historians’ evaluate and build on the work of others. In the process of sifting through and evaluating that work, a historian may choose to agree with or disagree with the work of others. Sometimes work has been read and discarded as being outside the scope of the book being written.

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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 · 20/09/2026

Final thought - have a look at various contemporary Workhouse Guardian guidance books/literature because these procedures are discussed. Can’t recall titles off the top of my head but check the bibliography in The Five.

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

Parishes were also afraid that outdoor relief for women on their own would only encourage prostitution.

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

Basically, they had to go into the workhouse or find a relative they could live off of, and not all relatives would have taken kindly to them leaving their husbands if he ‘slapped them around’.

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

Also have a look at Ginger Frost’s work on spousal abuse

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

I think the objective was not to pay outdoor relief and allow women to set up independently. But these policies changed all the time and varied from parish to parish.

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

It’s actually quite a fascinating rabbit hole…

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

In the admissions process the names and addresses of family members were asked and they were told to go there, unless that wasn’t possible (they lived far away, etc). Often women knew that going to a family member’s wasn’t possible and so they lied. They could then be taken into the workhouse where

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

If the police picked them up, they were often taken to the workhouse. Then in the admissions process it was established where their home parish was and they were transferred there (though at that point many just didn’t bother going to another workhouse and went back out on the street).

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

Have a look through workhouse admissions records @sophiemhistory.bsky.social. It seems that women were processed through the workhouse. They were questioned about who supported them and who they could be sent to. Many parishes would rather have them sent to a home (husband's father's, brother's).

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

Well, new as of last year! Come along tomorrow if you're in London.

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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 · 19/09/2026

Two of my favourite men and one of my favourite women. Aren’t I lucky to have such remarkable friends.

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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 · 11/09/2026

Ah tip-ins. The established author’s curse disguised as a blessing.

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