John Edward Christopher Hill

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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.

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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.

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- Magic
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- Charms
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

John Edward Christopher Hill