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Boyd Hilton
20th and 21st-century British historian
Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944)[2] is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974.[1]
In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship[3] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England"[3]—a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]