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Welcome !
My name is Dr Alexandra Dold, but everyone just calls me Alex. I’m a public historian, literary scholar, public speaker, published author and tour guide with a passion for bringing the past to life. I also facilitate workshops on literature and consult on historical fiction.
Whether you’re here to check out my academic work, explore my experience, or get in touch, I hope you find something that sparks your interest. I believe history and literature should be engaging, insightful and most of all fun! Feel free to browse around, read some reviews from past projects, or drop me a message if you’d like to collaborate.
My area of expertise is how history is presented in historical fiction and I have done lots of research on Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. If you’re here because you love Outlander and want to learn more about it and my research or because you want to collaborate or make use of my knowledge, you’ll find more info here.
Dr Alex Dold with Diana Gabaldon at the
2025 University of the Highlands and Islands Graduation in InvernessNEWS….NEWS….NEWS
November 2026
I will be talking about Outlander and Scotland: Touchstones and Signposts (2025) with my editor Gillebride MacMillan, chaired by Alisha Fernandez Miranda at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness on 28 November 2026 at 2.30pm.
September 2026
Come see me chat about Outlander and tartan at Bannockburn House on Friday, 18 September 2026. Tickets available here.
August 2026
New article out NOW: “Inside the Outlander auction as years of TV history are sold off” for The National. You can read it here.
I was a guest on the Outlandish Podcast . You can listen to it here.
December 2025: Our book is out now!
I have contributed two chapters to the book below which you can get via a Waterstones branch or their online shop, or the publisher Luath Press’s website. In the US, you can get the book via The Poisoned Pen bookstore.
Press
UHI, ‘UHI celebrates student success and honours outstanding contributions at 2025 graduation ceremony’, University website (November 2025).
Available here.BBC, ‘Outlander’s Diana Gabaldon to receive honorary doctorate’, BBC (12 November 2025).
Available here.Gregor White, ‘Outlander author Diana Gabaldon to receive honorary doctorate from University of the Highlands and Islands’, The Inverness Courier (10 November 2025).
Available here.Alexandra Dold, ‘Alex Dold: How I ended up studying to become a “doctor of Outlander”‘, The Press and Journal (26 November 2023).
Available here.Kerstin Rodgers, ‘Outlander: How hit TV show continues to fuel love of Scotland’, The National (5 February 2023).
Interview with me. Available here.Lucy Gillmore, ‘How a staycation at a neighbouring farm in Scotland gave one traveler the taste of a holiday abroad’, The i Paper (25 October 2020).
Lucy took my guided tour in Inverness and talks about it. Available here.
