John Edward Christopher Hill (6 Februari 1912 – 23 Februari 2003) adalah seorang akademisi dan sejarawan Marxis Inggris, yang mengkhususkan diri dalam sejarah Inggris abad ke-17. Dari 1965 sampai 1978, ia menjadi Master di Balliol College, Oxford University.

Kehidupan awal

Chris Hill lahir pada 6 Februari 1912, Bishopthorpe Road, York, dari pasangan Edward Harold Hill dan Janet Augusta (née Dickinson). Ayahnya adalah seorang solicitor dan keluarganya adalah Methodis taat. Ia masuk St Peter's School, York.^[1]

Kehidupan pribadi

Hill menikah dengan Inez Waugh (née Bartlett) pada 17 Januari 1944. Ia adalah mantan istri dari Ian Anthony Waugh dan putri dari seorang perwira angkatan darat, Gordon Bartlett. Mereka memiliki seorang putri, Fanny, yang tenggelam saat berlibur di Spanyol pada 1986. Pernikahan mereka kandas setelah sepuluh tahun.^[1]

Istri keduanya adalah Bridget Irene Mason (née Sutton),^[2] mantan istri dari Stephen Mason, dan seorang komunis dan sejarawan sejarawatnya. Mereka menikah pada 2 Januari 1956. Putri sulung mereka Kate meninggal dalam sebuah kecelakaan mobil pada 1957. Mereka memiliki dua anak lainnya: Andrew (lahir 1958) dan Dinah (born 1960).^[1]

Karya pilihan

• The English Revolution, 1640 (1940, 3rd ed. 1955), ISBN 0-85315-044-3 (1987 reprint) (On-line text at Marxists.org)
• Lenin and the Russian Revolution (1947), ISBN 0-14-013535-9 (1993 reprint)
• Economic Problems of the Church: From Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament (1956), ISBN 0-586-03528-1 (1971 reprint)
• Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century (1958), ISBN 0-7126-6722-9 (2001 reprint)
• The Century of Revolution, 1603–1714 (1961, 2nd. ed. 1980), ISBN 0-17-712002-9
• Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (1964), ISBN 0-7126-6816-0 (2003 reprint)
• Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965, rev. 1997), ISBN 0-19-820668-2
• Reformation to Industrial Revolution: A Social and Economic History of Britain, 1530–1780 (1967, rev. ed. 1969), ISBN 0-14-020897-6
• God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (1970), ISBN 0-297-00043-8
• Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England (1971, rev. ed. 1990), ISBN 0-86091-997-8
• The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (1972), ISBN 0-85117-025-0
• Change and Continuity in Seventheenth-Century England (1974, rev. ed. 1991), ISBN 0-300-05044-5
• Milton and the English Revolution (1977), ISBN 0-571-10198-4
• The World of the Muggletonians (1983), ISBN 0-85117-226-1
• The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries (1984), ISBN 0-571-13237-5
• The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill (3 vols.)
  1. Writing and Revolution in 17th Century England (1985), ISBN 0-7108-0565-9
  2. Religion and Politics in 17th Century England (1986), ISBN 0-7108-0507-1
  3. People and Ideas in 17th Century England (1986), ISBN 0-7108-0512-8
• A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628–1688 (1988), ISBN 0-19-812818-5 -- published in the United States as A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688 (1989), ISBN 0-394-57242-4
• A Nation of Change and Novelty: Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (1990), ISBN 0-415-04833-8
• The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (1992), ISBN 0-7139-9078-3
• Liberty Against The Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies (1996), ISBN 0-14-024033-0

Catatan

Referensi

• Adamo, Pietro, "Christopher Hill e la rivoluzione inglese: itinerario di uno storico", pp. 129–158 from Societá e Storia, Volume 13, 1990.
• Clark, J. C. D., Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Davis, J. C., Myth and History: the Ranters and the Historians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Eley, Geoff and Hunt, William (editors), Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill, London: Verso, 1988.
• Fulbrook, Mary, "The English Revolution and the Revisionist Revolt", pp. 249–264 from Social History, Volume 7, 1982.
• Hexter, J. H., "The Burden of Proof", Times Literary Supplement, 24 October 1975.
• Hobsbawm, Eric, "'The Historians Group' of the Communist Party" from Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honor of A. L. Morton, edited by Maurice Cornforth, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1978.
• Kaye, Harvey J., The British Marxist Historians: an introductory analysis, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1984.
• Morrill, John, "Christopher Hill", pp. 28–29 from History Today Volume 53, Issue # 6, June 2003.
• Pennington, D. H. and Thomas, Keith (editors), Puritans and Revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
• Pennington, Donald, "John Edward Christopher Hill", in British Academy, Proceedings of the British Academy: Volume 130: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IV Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 23–49.
• Richardson, R. C., The Debate on the English Revolution Revisited, London: Methuen, 1977.
• Samuel, Raphael "British Marxist Historians, 1880–1980", pp. 21–96 from New Left Review, Volume 120, March–April 1980.
• Schwarz, Bill, "'The People' in History: the Communist Party Historians' Group, 1946–56" from Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics, edited by Richard Johnson, London: Hutchinson, 1982.
• Underdown, David, "Radicals in Defeat", New York Review of Books, 28 March 1985.

Pranala luar

• The Good Old Cause: An Interview with Christopher Hill by Lee Humber and John Rees, International Socialism, 56 (1992).
• Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution – In Honor of Christopher Hill 1912–2003
• "Christopher Hill: Obituary at The Times, 26 February 2003.
• Hunt, Tristram. "Back when it mattered", The Guardian, 5 March 2003.
• Linebaugh, Peter. "An American Tribute to Christopher Hill" at the CounterPunch, 17 May 2003.
• Manning, Brian. The legacy of Christopher Hill Diarsipkan 2016-01-28 di Wayback Machine., International Socialism (2003)