Julian Hoppit

Hoppit was educated at Selwyn College, where he was taught by John Morrill, and later at Pembroke College and Magdalene College, Cambridge,[2] where he graduated Ph.D.[3] His thesis was later developed as Risk and Failure in English business, 1700–1800, published by the Cambridge University Press in 1987.[2]

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'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.[4]

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".[7]

From 2010 to 2015, Hoppit was a director of Watford Grammar School for Boys.[8]

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

• "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), 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)