Julian Hoppit FBA (born 1957) is a British historian, specializing in the

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economic and political history of Britain. He was Astor Professor of British History at

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from 2006 to 2021 and in 2012 was elected a

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."Professor Julian Hoppit FBA: The economic & political history of Britain, 1650–1850, including the history of economic thought. Elected 2012"
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Early life

Hoppit was educated at Selwyn College, where he was taught by John Morrill, and later at Pembroke College and

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,Preface to ''Risk and Failure in English Business 1700–1800'' (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
pp. vii–viii
/ref> where he graduated Ph.D."Hoppit, Prof. Julian (born 14 Aug. 1957), Astor Professor of British History, University College London, 2006–21, now Emeritus", in ''

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'' online edition, accessed 26 September 2023 His thesis was later developed as ''Risk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800'', published by the

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in 1987.

Career

In 1987, Hoppit became a lecturer at University College London."Professor Julian Hoppit, FBA"
ucl.ac.uk, accessed 12 October 2023 In 1992, he succeeded his former tutor John Morrill as general editor of the

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's ''Bibliography 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 Society and a board member of

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. In a ''

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'' review of his ''Britain’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 of Watford Grammar School for Boys."Julian HOPPIT"
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Personal life

In 1984, in

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, Hoppit married Dr Karin Joan Horowitz, an American."Hoppit, Prof. Julian (born 14 Aug. 1957), Astor Professor of British History, University College London, 2006–21, now Emeritus", in ''

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Selected publications

*"Financial Crises in Eighteenth-century England", ''

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'' (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" ''

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'' 31 (03) (September 1988) *"Counting the Industrial Revolution", ''The Economic History Review'' 43(2) (May 1990), 173–193 *"Attitudes to Credit in Britain, 1680–1790", ''The Historical Journal'' 33 (June 1990), 305–322 *"Economic Growth in the Age of Reason", ''Historical Journal'' 34 (September 1991) *"Reforming Britain's Weights and Measures, 1660–1824", ''

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'' (1993), 82–104 *"Patterns of parliamentary legislation, 1660–1800", ''The Historical Journal'' 39 (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,

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, 2000) *"The Myths of the South Sea Bubble", ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 12 (2002)
141–165
*"The Nation, the State, and the First Industrial Revolution," ''Journal of British Studies'' 50 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) *''The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707–2021'' (Penguin Books, 2021)

Notes

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