Christopher Hill (1912–2003) was an English historian. Educated at Oxford, Hill taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire as well as Oxford, where he was elected Master of Balliol College. His books include Puritanism and Revolution,Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, and The World Turned Upside Down.
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Touché!
June 14, 1990
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy by V.G. Kiernan
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The Raj Quartet
June 1, 1989
The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney
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Bunyan’s Progress
April 13, 1989
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History Turned Upside Down
April 28, 1988
Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe
Feminist Milton by Joseph Wittreich
Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 16301890 by Keith W.F. Stavely
The Origins of the English Novel, 16001740 by Michael McKeon
The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution by Margaret C. Jacob
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Under the Tudor Bed
May 7, 1987
Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia by Lacey Baldwin Smith
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Homer for Henry
February 12, 1987
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Success Story
January 29, 1987
Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie
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The Man Who Should Be King
October 23, 1986
Henry Prince of Wales, and England’s Lost Renaissance by Roy Strong
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Jolly Rogers
May 12, 1983
Sodomy and the Perception of Evil: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by B.R. Burg
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Tiptoe Through the Tudors
June 11, 1981
The Lisle Letters edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
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Scientists in Society
December 7, 1978
Robert Boyle and the English Revolution by J.R. Jacob
The Newtonians and the English Revolution: 1689-1720 by Margaret C. Jacob
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The New History of England
April 6, 1978
Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558 by G.R. Elton
Stability and Strife: England 1714-1760
by W.A. Speck
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Top People
December 8, 1977
Charles V: Elected Emperor and Hereditary Ruler by Manuel Fernández Alvarez, translated by J.A. Lalaguna
Philip II of Spain by Peter Pierson
The Young Mazarin by Georges Dethan, translated by Stanley Baron
The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry
by Roy Strong
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Political Animal
June 9, 1977
Cromwell by Roger Howell Jr.
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Hobbist Man
March 17, 1977
Wallenstein: His Life by Golo Mann, translated by Charles Kessler
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Syphilis & Pineapples
February 17, 1977
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Caliban’s Gift
November 25, 1976
First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old edited by Fredi Chiappelli
Columbus: His Enterprise by Hans Koning
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Plain Sailing
November 14, 1974
The Discovery of the Sea by J.H. Parry
England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 by David Beers Quinn
The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616 by Samuel Eliot Morison
Undreamed Shores: England’s Wasted Empire in America by Michael Foss
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Stalin, Trotsky, & Cromwell
March 21, 1974
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The Monster and his Myths
January 24, 1974
Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929 by Robert C. Tucker
Stalin: The Man and His Era by Adam B. Ulam
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III: Seeing the Invisible
October 4, 1973
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates