Boyd Hilton

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.

Boyd Hilton
Born	Andrew John Boyd Hilton[1][2] (1944-01-19) 19 January 1944 (age 81)
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

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?

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]

Bibliography

• Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830 (1978) ISBN 0-19-821864-8
• The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, ca. 1795–1865 (1988) Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-820107-9
• A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 (2006) Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-822830-9