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Brian Manning Partha Sarathi Gupta [ 1 ] Influenced. Ervand Abrahamian [ 2 ] 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 · Front Cover to the 1995 paperback edition of Christopher Hill’s The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (Penguin, 1995). There is an important reason for this. It is a much vaunted truism that English Marxist history was a uniquely non-doctrinaire and therefore a non-economically deterministic phenomenon.
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). He embraced this secular world-view when he was a young History student at Oxford in the polemical 1930s and never lost his ideological commitment, even though he resigned from the British Communist Party in 1957, after the defeat of an ...
Feb 26, 2003 · Feb. 26, 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 ...
a fiery Methodist preacher in Yorkshire and was, Hill wrote, the first per-son who showed him that ‘all accepted truths, just because they are accepted, tend to become lies’. Gregory became a Roman Catholic, Hill a Marxist. Asking Hill about the origins of his Marxism allowed him to JOHN EDWARD CHRISTOPHER HILL 25
Christopher Hill, R. H. Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm, 'Past and Present: origins and early years', Past and Present, 100 (1983), 3–14 David Renton, 'Studying their own nation without insularity? The British Marxist historians reconsidered', Science and Society , 69, 4 (2005), 559–79
5 days ago · "Christopher Hill" published on by null. (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.
