Welcome to the website of Dr Holger Hoock.
Holger Hoock is a historian of Britain and the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Please browse this website to find out more about his biography, books, and research.
There are also links to his consultancy practice, including museums and galleries.
Holger Hoock (b. 1972) grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. Since 1998, he has lived in the United Kingdom. He studied History, Politics, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and holds a Doctorate in Modern History from Oxford (2001). From 2002 to 2005, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently the Reader (Associate Professor) in British History and the Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. Read more…
Research Statement
I am a historian of Britain and the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, with comparative European, Atlantic, and interdisciplinary interests. Over the past decade, I have explored several areas central to British and European history and the wider humanities, mostly in the period c.1750-1850. Read more…
This page is under construction while I am on research leave.
I am always happy to hear from prospective graduate students with interests in British and British imperial history, especially in the period c.1700-1850; cultural history, including cultural histories of war; the organization of knowledge and the history of disciplines.
I have (co-)developed several websites with study resources, including Eighteenth-Century Worlds.
See also the resources under Empires of the Imagination on this site.
I am a member of the Editorial Board of The Public Historian, the journal of the US National Council on Public History, published by University of California Press, and of the international task force of NCPH.
Some Public History activity:
I have guest-edited a special issue of The Public Historian (Aug. 2010). This showcases current professional practice in this developing field in the United Kingdom.
See also the page on Consultancy.
Related Links:
History & Policy (UK)
National Council on Public History (USA)
In my consultancy practice—
NEW BOOK: Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, & the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 is now available in all good bookshops and through Amazon and other websites. Click on the book’s title above (or on it’s cover image anywhere on this website) for a summary, reviews, rich media content, and links to the publisher and Amazon.
Some recent reviews of Empires of the Imagination: Simon Schama in the Financial Times, Maya Jasanoff in the Guardian, Denis Judd in BBC History Magazine.
In academic year 2010/11, I will be a Fellow at the Konstanz Institute for Advanced Study to work on a book tentatively entitled Civil War in the British Empire: Practices and Representations of Violence and Terror in the American Revolutionary War.
CFP: I’ve joined the Editorial Board of the Journal for Maritime Research ahead of its exciting relaunch as a print and electronic journal for research in British maritime history in oceanic and world history contexts. We’re now inviting papers for the inaugural issue.
Agent
Aitken Alexander Associates
18-21 Cavaye Place
London
SW10 9PT
reception@aitkenalexander.co.uk
You can write to Holger Hoock at:
School of History
University of Liverpool
9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool – L69 7WZ
You can also e-mail him, but please note that unfortunately he cannot assist with genealogical queries:
hhoock@liv.ac.uk
