Boyd Hilton | |
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Born | 19 January 1944 |
Academic work | |
Main interests | British history from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century |
Notable works | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 |
Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) [2] is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974. [1]
In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship [3] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England" [3]—a Fellow of the British Academy. [4]
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846, published in 2006, is part of the New Oxford History of England. [5] In a 2006 review, Tristram Hunt (a former undergraduate of Hilton's college) called it a "lively and wide-ranging study that is mercifully free of dry chronology" and a "comprehensive, intriguing and challenging volume"; he notes it includes "studies of Pitt, Fox, Liverpool and Canning" as well as "accounts of phrenology, mesmerism and even early 19th-century flagellatory literature" and a "welcome concentration on economic and business matters". [6]
Email from the author, May 4, 2010 (Andrew John Boyd Hilton, b. 19 January 1944; professor and fellow of Trinity College and the Faculty of History, Cambridge University)
Boyd Hilton | |
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Born | 19 January 1944 |
Academic work | |
Main interests | British history from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century |
Notable works | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 |
Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) [2] is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974. [1]
In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship [3] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England" [3]—a Fellow of the British Academy. [4]
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846, published in 2006, is part of the New Oxford History of England. [5] In a 2006 review, Tristram Hunt (a former undergraduate of Hilton's college) called it a "lively and wide-ranging study that is mercifully free of dry chronology" and a "comprehensive, intriguing and challenging volume"; he notes it includes "studies of Pitt, Fox, Liverpool and Canning" as well as "accounts of phrenology, mesmerism and even early 19th-century flagellatory literature" and a "welcome concentration on economic and business matters". [6]
Email from the author, May 4, 2010 (Andrew John Boyd Hilton, b. 19 January 1944; professor and fellow of Trinity College and the Faculty of History, Cambridge University)