Hill, Christopher

Hill, Christopher
▪ 2004

      British historian (b. Feb. 6, 1912, York, Eng.—d. Feb. 24, 2003, Oxfordshire, Eng.), changed the way generations of students understood the history of 17th-century England through his Marxist interpretations of the period of the English Civil Wars (1642–51) and their aftermath. Hill was educated at and spent almost his entire career at the University of Oxford, where he was master of Balliol College (1965–1978). He was a member of the British Communist Party from the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s and remained a convinced Marxist. Hill wrote more than 20 books upholding his belief that the mid-17th century in England saw a profound revolution that opened the way for the establishment of capitalism. Among his books were The English Revolution 1640 (1940), Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (1964), and The World Turned Upside Down (1972).

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