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On my radar: Hallie Rubenhold’s cultural highlights

The historian and 2019 Baillie-Gifford prize winner on the charms of Lima, vintage poverty maps and her favourite London restaurant
Hallie Rubenhold in Montpelier Place, London, where one of Jack the Ripper’s victims once lived. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

British historian Hallie Rubenhold is the author of The Five, a social history of the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, which won the 2019 Baillie Gifford prize and is out now in paperback (Black Swan, £9.99). Born in Los Angeles, she studied history in the US before attending the University of Leeds. Her 2005 book The Covent Garden Ladies, about a notorious guidebook to Georgian prostitutes, inspired the TV series Harlots, while her next book, The Scandalous Lady W

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