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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 .
Apr 28, 2021 · One of the most peculiar intellectual historians in this tradition was Christopher Hill (1912–2003). Hill’s association with Oxford was intimate. Hill read for his undergraduate degree at Balliol, graduating in 1934, after which he migrated to All Souls.
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. His death was...
Hill, John Edward Christopher (1912–2003) As well as his role in the founding of the journal Past and Present, Hill's major contribution to the discipline was to overturn the evolutionary orthodoxy regarding the 17th century and mark it instead as a decisive century of revolutions.
Quick Reference. (1912–2003), Marxist historian, master of Balliol College, Oxford (1965–78). His many works on the period of the Civil War include The World Turned Upside Down; Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (1972), which introduces the prose of many of the lesser‐known and radical writers of the period.
Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003).
The first point is an obvious one: Christopher Hill has become above all else an historian of ideas in their social and political contexts-not just the ideas of the elite, of people inhabiting the world of high culture, but also the ideas of the hitherto often neglected middling and common sorts of people.
