Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944)
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.[ Trinity College Annual Record 2008, page 112 from Trinity Members Online at the University of Cambridge]
In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship[ Trinity College Annual Record 2008, page 6 from Trinity Members Online at the University of Cambridge] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England"[ Boyd Hilton at the British Academy website.]
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.
[ Professor Boyd Hilton at the Cambridge University History Faculty website] 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
George Canning" as well as "accounts of
phrenology,
mesmerism and even early 19th-century
flagellation literature" and a "welcome concentration on economic and business matters".
Bibliography
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Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830 (1978)
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The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, ca. 1795–1865 (1988) Oxford University Press
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A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 (2006) Oxford University Press
Notes
Further reading
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Middleton, Alex. "‘High Politics’ and its Intellectual Contexts." Parliamentary History 40.1 (2021): 168-191. online
