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.
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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. My Books
