Tiktok Sensation Katie Kennedy – also known as The History Gossip – History in Life in Sky TV History Crush after it became a virus with videos
Queen Elizabeth Kent “Fuggers”, Henry VIII “Class” and it is possible that Anne of Keviz is a “wing.”
Katie Kennedy, known as The History Gossip, uses this colorful language to bring famous historical characters alive in social media, which has received millions of likes on Tiktok. Most people take years to notice, but Katie has become famous overnight.
In one minute, her 12,000 -word thesis was written about women in Pompeii in her last year at Durham University, and the next day she published some strange historical videos on Tijook and her vanity.
Like most students, she was happily happy for hours of study time on social media, but for Katie, this led to larger things. She says.
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When seeing my empty expression, she translated: “Why were they really ugly? He achieved it well. It has come to the large Mim page that is really called the great British memes and have many followers. People wrapped it and asked,“ Are you? “
Dirt and funny, Katie History Videos are the right side of Docecary, with Gen Z.
After half a million followers at a later time, Katie got a book deal and published The History Gossip – Was Anne of Clevis returning? It will now appear on our screens to crush the history of Sky History, as it will blow through the drawers of the underwear of historical characters such as Lord Peron, Charles Dickens or Mary Antoinet-and ask big questions like Henry VI “Yes,” laughs. Was Lord Bayron to be crushed or burned? “Certainly crushing.”
Katie's speed will get a book deal in many experienced writers in the chest. “I received a message from my agent now in February last year when things were exploding,” she says. And it was like, “Have you ever thought about writing a book? And I thought, “Yes, perhaps in the future.” But once my thesis was delivered, I started writing it and ended during the Freshers in Oxford – when I was commenting!
“We took it out in November for Christmas, because it was more than a great book. It is still strange to see it in book stores.”
When we meet abroad in the sunny afternoon at the Pretty VAULTS and Gardens by Radclife in Oxford, where 25 -year -old Katie is now studying for her masters, I must ask, “Was Ann Kelevis Ming?”
“Well, I don't think so,” she replied. “Henry VIII gave her a castle and they had a kind of relationship between a brother and a sister. Among all his wives, she came out of her well. She was not really superior, as her pictures said, but she was” in the middle. “
What about Elizabeth 1? “Her teeth were fogen because she ate a lot of sugar,” says Katie. “It is so funny that even when it looks a little in its image, it is likely that this is the best version of it.”
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Katie just returned from a vacation outside, but her skin is still the porcelain color. “I don't like sitting in the sun because I am afraid of sunburn,” she says in her singing tone.
“I lived in Durham throughout my life. I grew up there, and I went to a local comprehensive school, and I did the sixth form. Then training in the press with the BBC,” she says.
This explains why Katie is good in finding a hook in a story – and she has a press certificate to prove this. “In my posts, I must get a three -second introduction to make people interested – and this requires a lot of research,” she explained. “I don't really invite them, I just click on the record!”
It is clear that the secret of Katie's success is an authentic voice on the platform, supported by years of difficult academic study.
“I did the press for two years, but I felt that I had missed the university, so I applied to Durham to do ancient history and archeology – and I entered!” She says.
Although she appears surprised by her “luck”, it amazes me that both Durham and Oxford are lucky that there is a person with such talent to make history in life.
Although it suffers from a little antichrist syndrome, university social life has been exposed to it. “I liked to be in Durham – all traditions and things and this is partly why I wanted to come to Oxford,” she admitted. “It is fun and do not get it at every university.”
A quick look at her social meetings and you can see Katie has settled well since her arrival last September. Laughs: “Yes, the balls are very nice. I like to wear gowns. I went to the Baluol College Ball last week. I can't lie – the balls here are better than Durham!”
Katie's first taste came to history when her parents dragged her around the characteristics of national trust every Sunday. “I remember when I was seven years old, I don't want to go to Wellington and Cragside, I just want to sit on the little Nintendo,” she admits.
But the experiment left an impression, because it fell in love with the overwhelming history – until it became part of the neighborhood museum in the northern exhibition.
“It is just the way from where I am Lev, so I worked there twice there.” “Once wearing his clothes as a child in Victorian schools, then as a second world war, I had a small cardboard gas mask box.
“Did you know during legalization, rather than the young children who were freezing the islands?”
Inspired by television historians such as Lucy, Rsley and Ruth Godman, Katie admits that the terrible history – which may have done more to make history popular than all the ancient dusty academic institutions – inspired it.
“Do not make you terrible dates you feel you are learning. Book author, Terry Derry, from Sunderland, which is not far from the place where I meet.”
“I used to love Ruth when you will make a Victorian farm on TV and will be like,” I will make bread from scratch. “She does not make you feel a lecture – she lives a history and talks about ordinary people, who I think you can overlook sometimes.
“I definitely ignited the way to present history in a fun way that resembles learning.”
I do not wonder what Katie teachers think about her style of bringing history to the masses. “When I first started on Tiktok, I banned everyone in Durham, friends and family, because I was embarrassed to post a video that might get three views,” she revealed. “Only later when I made a chain on the Victorians, I stopped taking care of what people thought.
“My supervisor in Oxford is really supportive. I told him that he is like a terrible history but for adults, and he believes it is great to make history easier.”
Social media burns real for influencers. Ask how to manage her time with a lot on her dish. “My masters in the history of the eighteenth century British and European, and I am doing my thesis in the manufacture of fans and how I used fans. But I went part -time now, so I have another year to get my ass and sort it: she says.
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“I used to publish every day on Tiktok, but I learned to back down and know that if you don't publish today, this is not like the end of everything.”
History clearly attracts a decent social media crowd. “I just get the Americans not to be able to understand my dialect, or they are like” what is mute? “
In Durham, she lives with her mother, father and brother, who has just started studying politics at the university. “He was discussing history or politics, but he loved the arguments, so it is politics,” she says.
Although she is eager to ask whether historical characters deserve dating, they avoid when asked if they were single. “Depends on who asks?” Smile.
But she flows when she talks about one of her great greats in Durham. “We just got King Charles Spanil called Miley – I love sitting and embraced it in the garden,” she says. “I miss her a lot when I am not there.”
Devoting a lot of time to study women in history, Katie continues: “I love the Virgin in particular and also Mary Antoinette, because I feel that she is very understood.”
The arts have lost pressure on more mathematics and engineering, but Katie makes history cold again and reminds us of the importance of knowing our past.
“History continues to repeat itself,” she says. “People are not different for us today. Tudors Belladonna is in their eyes to make them shine. Victorian women will eat arsenic chips to give their skin pale skin and wear dyed dresses with a green dye made of arsenic. Women died wearing them.”
So, forget the Brazilian elevators, or excessive tanning – when it comes to death for beauty, tudors and Victorians have arrived there first.
• Crush the date, presented by Katie Kennedy (AKA History Gossip), will be available in Sky History on Demand via Sky and Virgin Media from May 29. www.history.co.uk/shows/history-crush #Historycrush @historyuk
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