'''Julian Hoppit''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (born 1957) is a British historian, specializing in the [[early modern period|early modern]] economic and political history of Britain.

He was Astor Professor of British History at [[University College London]] from 2006 to 2021 and in 2012 was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]].<ref name=FBA>[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/julian-hoppit-FBA/ "Professor Julian Hoppit FBA: The economic & political history of Britain, 1650–1850, including the history of economic thought. Elected 2012"], thebritishacademy.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023</ref>

==Early life== Hoppit was educated at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]], where he was taught by [[John Morrill (historian)|John Morrill]], and later at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke]] and [[Magdalene College, Cambridge|Magdalene]] Colleges,<ref name=Preface>Preface to ''Risk and Failure in English Business 1700–1800'' (Cambridge University Press, 1987), [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/risk-and-failure-in-english-business-17001800/preface/A7A804AB6178D8B3FAB03AD4EB175787 pp. vii–viii]</ref> where he graduated [[Doctor of philosophy|Ph.D.]]<ref name=WW>"Hoppit, Prof. Julian (born 14 Aug. 1957), Astor Professor of British History, University College London, 2006–21, now Emeritus", in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who 2023]]'' online edition, accessed 26 September 2023 {{subscription required}}</ref> His thesis was later developed as ''Risk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800'', published by the [[Cambridge University Press]] in 1987.<ref name=Preface/>

==Career== In 1987, Hoppit became a lecturer at University College London.<ref name=UCL> [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/professor-julian-hoppit-fba "Professor Julian Hoppit, FBA"], ucl.ac.uk, accessed 12 October 2023</ref> In 1992, he succeeded his former tutor John Morrill as general editor of the [[Royal Historical Society]]'s ''Bibliography of British and Irish History''.<ref>[[Ian Archer|Ian W. Archer]], [https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/RHSB.html "Bibliographies of British history"], history.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023</ref><ref>Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, [https://www.sas.ac.uk/blog/bibliography-british-and-irish-history-goes-online-20-year-anniversary "The Bibliography of British and Irish History goes online: 20-year anniversary"], sas.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023</ref>

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<ref name=WW/> and a board member of [[the History of Parliament]].<ref name=UCL/>

In a ''[[Journal of Modern History]]'' 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".<ref>Carl Wennerlind, "Britain’s Political Economies: Parliament and Economic Life, 1660–1800. By Julian Hoppit." in ''[[The Journal of Modern History]]'', Vol. 91, No. 3 (2017), [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/704410 689–690]</ref>

From 2010 to 2015, Hoppit was a director of [[Watford Grammar School for Boys]].<ref>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/V8uSocOYqn7iUamKsEBk7QPDVxc/appointments "Julian HOPPIT"], company-information.service.gov.uk, accessed 26 September 2023</ref>

==Personal life== In 1984, in [[Cambridge]], Hoppit married Dr Karin Joan Horowitz, an American.<ref name=WW>"Hoppit, Prof. Julian (born 14 Aug. 1957), Astor Professor of British History, University College London, 2006–21, now Emeritus", in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who 2023]]'' online edition, accessed 26 September 2023 {{subscription required}}</ref>

==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 Journal]]'' 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", ''[[English Historical Review]]'' (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, [[New Oxford History of England]], 2000) *"The Myths of the South Sea Bubble", ''Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'' 12 (2002), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679343 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) {{ISBN|9781783274451}} *''The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707–2021'' (Penguin Books, 2021)

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