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About Boyd Hilton
- Andrew John Boyd Hilton (born 1944) 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.In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ...
- volume in the New Oxford History of England"—a Fellow of the British Academy.
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