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.
Holger’s publication include The King’s Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture, 1760-1840 (2003) and Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 (2010).
He is now researching a book provisionally entitled Civil War in the British Empire: Practices and Representations of Violence and Terror in the American Revolutionary War.
He has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals and in edited collections on subjects ranging from the dinner culture of 18th-century artists, the commemoration of military heroes, international competition over prize antiquities in the Mediterranean and Near East, and the phenomenon of “collecting British” at the turn of the 19th century. (see the research page).
Holger enjoys working as a research and historical consultant with museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held numerous international Fellowships. In 2006, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History for internationally recognized young researchers.
For a full CV please contact Holger Hoock directly.
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