Christopher Hill (historian)
John Edward Christopher Hill was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17thcentury English history. From 1965 to 1978, he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford University.
Chris Hill was born onFebruary 1912, Bishopthorpe Road, York, to Edward Harold Hill and Janet Augusta . His father was a solicitor and the family were devout Methodists. He attended St Peters School, York. At the age of 16, he sat his entrance examination at Balliol College, University of Oxford. The two history tutors who marked his papers recognised his ability and offered him a place to forestall any chance he might go to the University of Cambridge. In 1931 Hill took a prolonged holiday in Freiburg, Germany, where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi Party, later saying that it contributed significantly to the radicalisation of his politics.
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