What is Christopher Hill?
{{unsourced|date=February 2015}} '''John Edward Christopher Hill''' (6 February 1912 – 24 February 2003), usually known simply as '''Christopher Hill''', was an [[English people|English]] [[Marxist]] [[historian]] and author of textbooks. Hill was born into a prosperous [[middle class]] family of [[Methodist]]s in [[York]]. His father was a [[solicitor]]. He attended St Peter's School, York. When he sat his entrance examination at [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]], [[University of Oxford|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 im Breisgau|Freiburg]], [[Germany]], Where he witnessed the rise of the [[Nazi Party]]; he later said it contributed significantly to the [[Politcal radicalism|radicalisation]] of his politics. He died of [[cerebral atrophy]] in [[Chipping Norton]], [[Oxfordshire]]. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Christopher}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:2003 deaths]] [[Category:British communists]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in England]] [[Category:English historians]] [[Category:People from York]] [[Category:Writers from Yorkshire]]