Talk:Christopher Hill (historian)

message: Surely Hill left the CP in 1956 for the reason E. P. Thompson and many many others did - Kruschov's revelations of Stalin's crimes, and the aftermath of the Red Army action in Hungary. Linuxlad
I also agree, he left the CP due to the atrocities committed by Stalin...72.128.207.39 (talk) 03:23, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Your personal opinion is of no importance. Do you have a Reliable Source that makes this claim? HammerFilmFan (talk) 02:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: discussion of the article

message: Currently the phrase Marxist historian both link to different articles (Marxism and History respectively). Would it be better to link them to the article on Historical Materialism?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.160.30 (talk • contribs)  (16:30, 6 December 2007)
:No, I think the links should be left as they are. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Marxist and history as seperate links or as a link to historical materialism?

message: Shouldn't this be at Christopher Hill (historian)?  He's never called by his first two given names. john k (talk) 18:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: No reference to him being a soviet spy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.223.19.250 (talk) 11:07, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No REFERENCE (RS - title and page number) for your claim? HammerFilmFan (talk) 02:19, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why 

message: This paragraph has been removed pending a citation and perhaps a re-write. Gordo (talk) 11:01, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph removed. 

message: "Christopher Hill, the famous Marxist historian of the English Civil War and the Levellers of the seventeenth century, it turns out, was also a Soviet spy in the 1940s. When confronted with the evidence in his last years, he confessed but pleaded that the truth not be made public until after he had died. He had concealed his membership of the Communist Party in order to get jobs in military intelligence (1940–43) and the Foreign Office (1943–45), and there he worked for the Soviet Union." Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 06:18, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for clarifying. I don't have the time now to dig into this issue and try to verify the reliability of the evidence used to make this accusation. Since it is attributed, there is no problem with it remaining there. I just want to clarify, from my perspective, that I don't know what might have gone on during the WWII years. But I do know that after the end of the war, Professor Hill was always openly declared as a member of the Communist Party of the UK. He never made any secret of it while he was a member, and in later years he resigned his membership. That did not seem to have hindered his career in Balliol College at Cambridge much. He continued teaching and writing there until he retired, and his work on the history of the 17th century in the UK is still very much used and prized in the historical profession. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 21:27, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Monk wrote this (and more) about Hill in his 2010 Quadrant article.