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Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Alice Loxton is history’s social media phenomenon. Now she’s written a book about eighteen figures throughout British history and their lives at that age, and she met with our editor recently.
Alice Loxton

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview   Alice, I wondered what were you doing when you were when you were 18? I probably had a pretty conventional 18 year old life, I think, in that I was just completing my A-levels and was looking to university. I was very...

Little Boney and the Satirist

Little Boney and the Satirist

The Corsican Ogre was short wasn’t he?
Alice Loxton

It’s one of history’s greatest myths: Napoleon Bonaparte was short. This is not quite true. In 1815 an English captain described him as “a remarkably strong, well-built man, about five feet seven inches high”. He was above average height of the time, and would have...