Julian Hoppit

Julian HoppitFBA(born 14 August 1957) is an English historian, specializing in theearly moderneconomic and political history of Britain.

He was Astor Professor of British History atUniversity College Londonfrom 2006 to 2021 and in 2012 was elected aFellow of the British Academy.

Early life

Hoppit was educated atSelwyn College,where he was taught byJohn Morrill,and later atPembroke CollegeandMagdalene College, Cambridge,where he graduatedPh.D. His thesis was later developed asRisk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800,published by theCambridge University Pressin 1987.

Career

In 1987, Hoppit became a lecturer at University College London.In 1992, he succeeded his former tutor John Morrill as general editor of theRoyal Historical Society'sBibliography of British and Irish History.

In 2006, he was appointed as Astor Professor of British History at University College London. After retiring from this chair in 2021, he was made an Emeritus professor. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Societyand a board member ofthe History of Parliament.

In aJournal of Modern Historyreview of hisBritain’s Political Economies(2017), Hoppit was called "one of this generation's most important writers on early modern British economic life and institutions".

From 2010 to 2015, Hoppit was a director ofWatford Grammar School for Boys.

Personal life

In 1984, inCambridge,Hoppit married Dr Karin Joan Horowitz, an American.

Selected publications

• "Financial Crises in Eighteenth-century England",The Economic History Review(February 1986)
• Risk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800(Cambridge University Press, 1987), with Philip Mirowski
• "Income, Welfare and the Industrial Revolution in Britain"The Historical Journal31 (03) (September 1988)
• "Counting the Industrial Revolution",The Economic History Review43(2) (May 1990), 173–193
• "Attitudes to Credit in Britain, 1680–1790",The Historical Journal33 (June 1990), 305–322
• "Economic Growth in the Age of Reason",Historical Journal34 (September 1991)
• "Reforming Britain's Weights and Measures, 1660–1824",English Historical Review(1993), 82–104
• "Patterns of parliamentary legislation, 1660–1800",The Historical Journal39 (March 1996)
• Failed legislation, 1660–1800, extracted from the Commons and Lords Journals(Hambledon Press, 1997)
• A Land of Liberty? England, 1689–1727(Oxford: Clarendon Press,New Oxford History of England,2000)
• "The Myths of the South Sea Bubble",Transactions of the Royal Historical Society12 (2002),141–165
• "The Nation, the State, and the First Industrial Revolution,"Journal of British Studies50 No. 2 (April 2011), 307–331
• Nehemiah Grew and England's Economic Development: The Means of a Most Ample Increase of the Wealth and Strength of England (1706-7)(Oxford University Press / British Academy, 2012)
• Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850(Manchester University Press, 2013)
• Britain’s Political Economies: parliament and economic life, 1660–1800(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton,ed. with Adrian Leonard, Duncan Needham (Boydell Press, 2019)ISBN9781783274451
• The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Ta xing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707–2021(Penguin Books, 2021)