Hallie Rubenhold is a British historian. Rubenhold was born in Los Angeles and undertook a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She then gained an MA in British History and History of Art and an MPhil in History from the University of Leeds, on subject of marriage and child-rearing in the eighteenth century.

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  • Hallie Rubenhold is a British historian. Rubenhold was born in Los Angeles and undertook a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She then gained an MA in British History and History of Art and an MPhil in History from the University of Leeds, on subject of marriage and child-rearing in the eighteenth century. Having worked in the commercial art world and as an assistant curator for the National Portrait Gallery, Rubenhold is currently on the academic staff of the Institute for the International Education of Students, London. In 2005, she wrote an accessible history of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies and its author in her book The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List, and later published a volume containing a selection of the directories "funniest, rudest and most surreal entries". The BBC later adapted the material for a documentary, presented by Rubenhold herself. The Harlots Handbook was shown on Thursday 29 June, 2006, between 9.30pm and 10pm. Rubenhold's work also served as the inspiration for the Channel 4 drama series City of Vice. She also appeared on BBC 2's Balderdash and Piffle, discussing the origins of merkins with burlesque star Immodesty Blaize. Her most recent book, Lady Worsley's Whim, published in November 2008 is an account of one of the eighteenth-century's most sensational sex scandals, the criminal conversation trial of Sir Richard Worsley v. Maurice George Bisset. It featured as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from the 3rd of November. Married, Rubenhold lives in North London
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  • Hallie Rubenhold is a British historian. Rubenhold was born in Los Angeles and undertook a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She then gained an MA in British History and History of Art and an MPhil in History from the University of Leeds, on subject of marriage and child-rearing in the eighteenth century.
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  • Hallie Rubenhold
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