Welcome to the website of Holger Hoock.
Holger Hoock is a historian of Britain and the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth 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.
My Books
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Holger Hoock grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. He studied History, Politics, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and holds a Doctorate in Modern History from the University of Oxford (2001). He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Liverpool, where he was also the Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Center. From 2011, he will be teaching at the University of Pittsburgh as the Carroll Amundson Chair in British History.