Dr Hugo Bromley is a historian of manufacturing, geopolitics, and international trade. As the the Engelsberg Applied History Research Fellow, Dr Bromley acts as an assistant director for the Centre for Geopolitics, coordinates the Centre’s work on economic statecraft and applied history and leads the UK Union Programme.

Articles by Dr Bromley have been accepted for publication in the English Historical Review and International Security. His current book project, Economic Patriotism, looks at the role of textile manufacturers in forming the British state through representative institutions. He is also the co-author, with Brendan Simms, of the forthcoming book Britain and the Baltic: A Documentary History, and the co-author, with Eyck Freymann, of On Day One, an Economic Contingency Plan for a Taiwan Crisis. He has taught at Cambridge at an undergraduate and masters level, and received a CUSU teaching commendation in 2022.

Dr Bromley received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2022. He is an affiliated research associate of Robinson College, Cambridge.