Christopher Hill (historian)

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John Edward Christopher Hill (born February 6, 1912 in York , † February 23, 2003 ) was a British Marxist historian . From 1965 to 1978 Hill was a Masters at Balliol College , Oxford . He was a historian at the University of Oxford before and after doing his master’s degree .

Life

Hill was in 1911, the son of Methodists from the middle class was born in York. There he also attended St Peter's School . Out of this he was recruited at the age of 16 by Vivian Galbraith at Balliol College. It was in Oxford that Hill first came into contact with Marxist ideas and adopted this political point of view. In 1935 Hill joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and spent a year in the Soviet Union . After returning to Great Britain from the Soviet Union in 1936, Hill began his academic career as an assistant professor, and two years later became a tutor in modern history. In 1940 he joined the Army , but during the Second World War he was not on the frontline , but was deployed as a lieutenant and major in Oxford and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . In 1957, a year after the crackdown on the Hungarian uprising, he left the British Communist Party . After the war, Hill began to publish a variety of books. His academic career also culminated between 1965 and 1978 when Hill was a Masters at Balliol College, which is part of the University of Oxford. He was a member a. a. the British Academy (since 1966), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1973) and the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (since 1989).

Works

  • Lenin and the Russian revolution , 1947, London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
  • The English Revolution, 1640 , 1955, London: Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Economic Problems of the Church , 1956, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Oliver Cromwell, 1658-1958 , 1958, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Puritanism and Revolution , 1958, London: Secker & Warburg.
  • The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 , 1961, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson.
  • Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution , 1965, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Reformation to Industrial Reformation , 1967, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • The pelican economic history of Britain , 1969, Penguin Books.
  • God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English revolution , 1970, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Antichrist in seventeenth-century England , 1971, London: Oxford University Press.
  • The world turned upside down , 1972, London: Maurice Temple Smith.
  • Change and continuity in seventeenth century England , 1974, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0297768220 .
  • Milton and the English revolution , 1977, London: Faber. ISBN 057111170X .
  • Some intellectual consequences of the English Revolution , c1980, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0297777807 .
  • World of the Muggletonians , 1983, London: Temple Smith. ISBN 0085117226 .
  • The experience of defeat , 1984, London: Faber. ISBN 0571132375 .
  • Collected essays of Christopher Hill , 1985/1986, Brighton: Harvester.
  • A turbulent, seditious, and factions people , 1988, Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 0198128185 .
  • A tinker and a poor man , 1988, WW Norton. ISBN 0393306623 .
  • History and the present , 1989, South Place Ethical Society. ISBN 090236815X .
  • A nation of change and novelty , 1990, London: Routledge. ISBN 0415048338 .
  • The English bible and the seventeenth-century revolution , 1993, London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0713990783 .
  • Liberty against the law , 1996, London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0713991194 .
  • England's turning point , 1998, London: Bookmarks. ISBN 1898876258 .
  • Flowers in the cities , 1998, London: Marshall Pickering. ISBN 0551031662 .

As editor

  • The English Revolution, 1640 , 1940, London: Lawrence & Wishart.
  • The Good Old Cause. The English revolution of 1640-60: its causes, course and consequences. , 1947, London: Lawrence & Wishart.
  • The Levellers and the English Revolution , 1961, London: Cresset Press.
  • Gerrard Winstanley : The law of freedom, and other writings , 1973, Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0140400230 .
  • Anglicans and Roman Catholics , 1994, London: SPCK / CTS. ISBN 0281047456 .
  • Anglican orders , 1997, Norwich: Canterbury Press. ISBN 1853111635 .

German translations

  • The English Revolution of 1640. Four Essays. , 1952, Berlin: Dietz Verlag.
  • From the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution: Social u. Economic history of England 1530-1780 , 1977, Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus-Verlag. ISBN 3-593-32533-0 .
  • On some spiritual consequences of the English Revolution , 1990, Berlin: Wagenbach. ISBN 3-8031-5123-6 .

literature

  • Donald Pennington: John Edward Christopher Hill, 1912-2003 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 130 , 2005, pp. 23-49 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tristram Hunt: Back when it mattered , guardian.co.uk. March 5, 2003. 
  2. ↑ a b c Christopher Hill at spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
  3. ↑ Ulrich Raulff: The lost paradise of the revolution - On the death of the English historian Christopher Hill, in Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 28, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, John Edward Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English Marxist historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH York
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2003