Hill, (John Edward) Christopher (1912–2003)

British historian. He employed a traditionally Marxist approach to 17th-century English history, although this was less marked in his later work. His publications include The English Revolution, 1640 (1940), The Century of Revolution (1961), and Antichrist in Seventeenth-century England (1971).

Hill was educated in England at St Peter's School, York, and Balliol College, Oxford Univeristy. He became a fellow of All Souls, Oxford University, in 1934. From 1938–65 he was fellow and tutor in modern history at Balliol and became master of Balliol in 1965. Among his other works are Puritanism and Revolution (1958), Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (1964), Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965), Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1967), God's Englishman (1970), Oliver Cromwell (1958), and The World Turned Upside Down (1972).