Dr Holger Hoock

Holger Hoock grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. For the past decade 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. 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.