# Julian Hoppit

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**Julian Hoppit** [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (born 1957) is a British historian, specializing in the [early modern](/source/Early_modern_period) economic and political history of Britain.

He was Astor Professor of British History at [University College London](/source/University_College_London) from 2006 to 2021 and in 2012 was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy).[1]

## Early life

Hoppit was educated at [Selwyn College, Cambridge](/source/Selwyn_College%2C_Cambridge), where he was taught by [John Morrill](/source/John_Morrill_(historian)), and later at [Pembroke](/source/Pembroke_College%2C_Cambridge) and [Magdalene](/source/Magdalene_College%2C_Cambridge) Colleges,[2] where he graduated [Ph.D.](/source/Doctor_of_philosophy)[3] His thesis was later developed as *Risk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800*, published by the [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) in 1987.[2]

## Career

In 1987, Hoppit became a lecturer at University College London.[4] In 1992, he succeeded his former tutor John Morrill as general editor of the [Royal Historical Society](/source/Royal_Historical_Society)'s *Bibliography of British and Irish History*.[5][6]

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[3] and a board member of [the History of Parliament](/source/The_History_of_Parliament).[4]

In a *[Journal of Modern History](/source/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".[7]

From 2010 to 2015, Hoppit was a director of [Watford Grammar School for Boys](/source/Watford_Grammar_School_for_Boys).[8]

## Personal life

In 1984, in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge), Hoppit married Dr Karin Joan Horowitz, an American.[3]

## Selected publications

- "Financial Crises in Eighteenth-century England", *[The Economic History Review](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/New_Oxford_History_of_England), 2000)

- "The Myths of the South Sea Bubble", *Transactions of the Royal Historical Society* 12 (2002), [141–165](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3679343)

- "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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781783274451](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781783274451)

- *The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707–2021* (Penguin Books, 2021)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FBA_1-0)** ["Professor Julian Hoppit FBA: The economic & political history of Britain, 1650–1850, including the history of economic thought. Elected 2012"](https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/julian-hoppit-FBA/), thebritishacademy.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Preface_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Preface_2-1) Preface to *Risk and Failure in English Business 1700–1800* (Cambridge University Press, 1987), [pp. vii–viii](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/risk-and-failure-in-english-business-17001800/preface/A7A804AB6178D8B3FAB03AD4EB175787)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-WW_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-WW_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-WW_3-2) "Hoppit, Prof. Julian (born 14 Aug. 1957), Astor Professor of British History, University College London, 2006–21, now Emeritus", in *[Who's Who 2023](/source/Who's_Who_(UK))* online edition, accessed 26 September 2023 (subscription required)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-UCL_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-UCL_4-1) ["Professor Julian Hoppit, FBA"](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/professor-julian-hoppit-fba), ucl.ac.uk, accessed 12 October 2023

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Ian W. Archer](/source/Ian_Archer), ["Bibliographies of British history"](https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/RHSB.html), history.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal, ["The Bibliography of British and Irish History goes online: 20-year anniversary"](https://www.sas.ac.uk/blog/bibliography-british-and-irish-history-goes-online-20-year-anniversary), sas.ac.uk, accessed 26 September 2023

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Carl Wennerlind, "Britain’s Political Economies: Parliament and Economic Life, 1660–1800. By Julian Hoppit." in *[The Journal of Modern History](/source/The_Journal_of_Modern_History)*, Vol. 91, No. 3 (2017), [689–690](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/704410)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Julian HOPPIT"](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/V8uSocOYqn7iUamKsEBk7QPDVxc/appointments), company-information.service.gov.uk, accessed 26 September 2023

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