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.

My Books

The King's Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840 (Oxford Historical Monographs) History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005 (British Academy Occasional Papers) Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850