Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) is a British historian and a professor and fellow of

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. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Hilton was educated at

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, 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
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In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an '' ad hominem'' professorshipTrinity College Annual Record 2008
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and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the ''

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''"—a Fellow of the

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''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''. In a 2006 review,

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(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,

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and Canning" as well as "accounts of phrenology,

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and even early 19th-century flagellatory literature" and a "welcome concentration on economic and business matters".

Bibliography

*''Corn, Cash, Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Governments, 1815–1830'' (1978) *''The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, ca. 1795–1865'' (1988)

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*''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846'' (2006)

''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?''

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