David Hopkin (born 1966) is a British historian, who specialises in European social history and folklore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From 1994 to 1997 he undertook a PhD,[3] supervised by Peter Burke and Robert W. Scribner, before a spell as a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College.
He has been a key collaborator in a number of large-scale historical research projects, including the BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology.
[5] Hopkins's first monograph, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture was praised as the “product of meticulous research and high intelligence, expressed in superb prose”[6] and was jointly awarded the Gladstone Book Prize in 2002.
[8] In 2016, Hopkin was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for the project ‘Lacemakers – Poverty, Religion and Gender in a Transnational Work Culture’, which sought to "provide the first full length study of the shared work culture of lacemakers across nineteenth-century Europe; a history of women's experience of poverty constructed from folk songs and stories".