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Christopher Hill was the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history, and one of the most distinguished historians of recent times. Fellow historian E.P. Thompson once referred to him as the dean and paragon of English historians. From 1965 to 1978 he was Master of Balliol College. After leaving Balliol he was for two years a Visiting Professor at the Open University. Dr Hill, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the British Academy. He died in 2003.
-Intensely interesting ... Essential.- --Perez Zagorin, Journal of Modern History -The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England ... No historian of recent times was so synonymous with his period of study; he is the reason why most of us know anything about the seventeenth century at all.- --Guardian -The dean and paragon of English historians.- --E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class -He established the concept of an 'English Revolution' every bit as significant and potentially as radical as its French and Russian equivalents ... Wide-ranging, popular and immensely prolific ... the dominant figure in studies of the period.- --Telegraph -A book I argued with from beginning to end, and I was sometimes overborne by its arguments. It is also, in an old-fashioned phrase, a book of great learning. Both these observations constitute high praise.- --John Morrill, History Today Intensely interesting ... Essential. --Perez Zagorin, Journal of Modern History The commanding interpreter of seventeenth-century England ... No historian of recent times was so synonymous with his period of study; he is the reason why most of us know anything about the seventeenth century at all. --Guardian The dean and paragon of English historians. --E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class He established the concept of an 'English Revolution' every bit as significant and potentially as radical as its French and Russian equivalents ... Wide-ranging, popular and immensely prolific ... the dominant figure in studies of the period. --Telegraph A book I argued with from beginning to end, and I was sometimes overborne by its arguments. It is also, in an old-fashioned phrase, a book of great learning. Both these observations constitute high praise. --John Morrill, History Today
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