[1] After graduating, in September 2019 Loxton gained a job on the History Hit television channel, working as a researcher, editor, producer, and presenter with Dan Snow.

Her second book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

It explored the lives of notable 18-year-olds in history, including studies of the teenage years of Bede, Geoffrey Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth I, Jacques Francis, Jeffrey Hudson, Horatio Nelson, Sarah Biffin, Mary Anning, Richard Burton and Vivienne Westwood.

[4] Loxton appears as a presenter on BBC and Channel 5 and writes book reviews and comment for newspapers, including The Times.

A Blackwell's representative commented: "Playful but authoritative history is a genre which Alice Loxton is speedily making her own.