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John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003) was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history. From 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
Feb 27, 2003 · Christopher Hill, a leading Marxist historian of 17th-century England who helped illuminate the radical tradition of that revolutionary period, died on Monday. He was 91.
Apr 28, 2021 · Hill’s primary attempt at ‘high’ intellectual history—his Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, developed from the 1962 Ford Lectures delivered at Oxford—was subject to much criticism by another idiosyncratic Oxford intellectual historian, Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Jan 1, 1984 · Christopher Hill is the former Modern History Fellow and Tutor and Master of Balliol College, Oxford. His many award-winning books include The World Turned Upside Down and The English Bible and the 17th Century Revolution.
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In The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers, and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them.
Aug 30, 2013 · Christopher Hill's study of Cromwell – a man at the centre of English history – is a triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose.
Aug 31, 2005 · Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003).
Jun 24, 2010 · The Canon: The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill. Christopher Hill (1912-2003) was an astonishingly prolific historian and for a time the dominant figure in the recent historiography of the "English Revolution" of the 17th century, a concept he did most to popularise.
Jul 15, 2017 · Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down – and that achievement is rooted firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills.
Aug 24, 2018 · Christopher Hill, [1] the Marxist historian who died in February 2003 at the age of ninety-one, [2] was a magisterial figure not only among historical circles but in twentieth-century British intellectual life.
