Full name | Andrew John Boyd Hilton[1][2] |
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Born | 1944 (age 67–68) |
Main interests | British history from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century |
Major works | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 |
Boyd Hilton (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 elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974.[1] In 2007, he was "promoted by the University 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] Tristram Hunt, in a 2006 review, 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]