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Also known as John Edward Christopher Hill

British historian (1912–2003)

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Born
1912
Died
2003
Works
124

Top works

  • Puritans and revolutionaries
  • The making of modern English society
  • Puritanism and revolution; studies in interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th century
  • Society and Puritanism in pre-Revolutionary England
  • Reformation to industrial revolution, 1530-1780

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
  • Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
  • Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

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Key facts

Born
John Edward Christopher Hill , ( 1912-02-06 ) 6 February 1912, York , Yorkshire , England
Died
23 February 2003 (2003-02-23) (aged 91), Chipping Norton , Oxfordshire , England
Spouse s
Inez Waugh ( née Bartlett) , Bridget Irene Mason ( née Sutton)
Children
Four
Education
Balliol College, Oxford
Discipline
Historian
Sub discipline
17th-century English history
Institutions
All Souls College, Oxford , University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire , Balliol College, Oxford , Open University
Notable students
Brian Manning , Partha Sarathi Gupta
Influenced
Ervand Abrahamian

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date of birth
1912-02-06
date of death
2003-02-23
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Christopher Hill
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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.

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