United Kingdom, Historian February 6, 1912 – February, 23, 2003.
John Edward Christopher Hill was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history. From 1965 to 1978, he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford University.
Also known as Academic
Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
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