Christopher Hill
John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 - 24 February 2003), usually known simply as Christopher Hill, was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks.
Hill was born into a prosperous middle class family of Methodists in York. His father was a solicitor. He attended St Peter's School, York. When he sat his entrance examination at Balliol College, Oxford, The two history tutors from Balliol College, recognised his ability and offred him a place to forestall any chance he might go to Cambridge.
Before he went to Oxford in 1931, Hill had a prolonged holiday in Freiburg, Germany, Where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi Party; he later said it contributed significantly to the radicalisation of his politics.
He died of cerebral atrophy in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
1912 births
2003 deaths
British communists
Disease-related deaths in England
English historians
People from York
Writers from Yorkshire