Hallie Rubenhold

Hallie Rubenhold is an author and social historian whose expertise lies in the early modern period (17th, 18th, 19th centuries).

Hallie has appeared as an expert contributor on many programmes.

For Channel 4: We Built Titanic, the challenge to rebuild integral parts of the legendary ship and The Untold Great Fire.

For BBC4: The Beauty Of Maps, the documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail, The Ages of Excess: When Britain Went too Far, a documentary which looks back at Britain during the 18th century, a time of sexual excess and liberation and the film magazine show, The Cinema Show.

For BBC2: History Cold Case, the series which sees skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analysed in staggering detail and the word-hunting programme, Balderdash and Piffle ‘X'-Rated.

For Living TV: the paranormal series, Living with the Dead. In March 2011 Hallie will also be appearing in Mud Men on the History Channel. The prime time documentary series is exploring the rich archaeology of the River Thames.

In 2006 the BBC created a 30-minute documentary entitled The Harlots Handbook based on Hallie’s book The Covent Garden Ladies which was broadcast as part of BBC4’s The Century That Made Us season. As the presenter of the documentary, Hallie took the audience on a journey through the dark streets of the Georgian underworld.

Hallie has also been a consultant and historical expert advising on dramas such as The Harlot’s Progress and City of Vice on Channel 4.

Hallie was born in Los Angeles, California to a British father and an American mother and has spent much of her life between the UK and the US. Hallie received her B.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in British History and History of Art from the University of Leeds. Remaining at Leeds, she embarked on her studies for a PhD and later completed her thesis on the subject of marriage and child-rearing in the eighteenth century.

Before making a full-time commitment to her computer keyboard, she pursued a more visually stimulating career in the world of museums and galleries, working for a Bond Street art dealer and as a curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Hallie has also taught university courses on the history of London and on eighteenth-century painting, and has lectured widely on a variety of aspects of British social, literary and art history in the Stuart and Georgian periods (1660 – 1830); covering a range of subjects from the country house to prostitution.

For more information see her website: http://www.hallierubenhold.com/.