David Hopkin (historian)
David Hopkin | |
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| Born | David Matthew Hopkin 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of European Social History |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Burke Robert W. Scribner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Churchill College, Cambridge University of Glasgow Hertford College, Oxford |
David Matthew Hopkin FRHistS (born 1966) is an English historian, who specialises in European social history and folklore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is Professor of European Social History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College.
Hopkin has called for historians to engage more with the subjects of folklore, writing in 2004 that historians should pay “…due attention not just to folklore collections, but to folklorists’ ideas and methods”.