Matthew Hilton (historian)

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Matthew J. Hilton, FRHistS, is a British social historian. Since 2016 he has been Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor at Queen Mary University of London. He earned his PhD at Lancaster University in 1996, writing a thesis on tobacco and consumer culture in Britain from 1850 to 1950. He began his career at the University of Birmingham in 1997 as a lecturer, became Professor of Social History there in 2006, and by 2016 was deputy head of the School of the Arts and Law. In 2016 he moved to Queen Mary to join the School of History. He serves on the editorial board of Past & Present and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History in 2002. Hilton’s research focuses on humanitarianism, consumerism and social activism, mainly in Britain but with global and comparative perspectives. His published works cover these topics.