From: "Laura Fiocco" <fiocco-AT-unical.it>
Subject: Re: AUT: Christopher Hill
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:12:37 +0100


I agree with Barry. Hill was a great person.
ciao laura
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From: "Barry" <digger_communist-AT-yahoo.co.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: Christopher Hill


> Hill was my favourite of all historians. I came across
> his work a couple of years ago when I did a
> dissertation on Gerrard Winstanley and the English
> Revolution and was hooked ever since. I tried to get
> in touch with him once but found out that he had
> Alzheimer's disease--which in many ways is even more
> sad. His wife Bridgett (also a great historian) who
> cared for him had died towards the end of last year.
> He had a great gift for historical narrative and
> insight, and in many ways pioneered with Edward
> Thompson and co. the 'history from below' approach we
> see in writers like Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
> today.
> 
> However, he had had an incredibly long and productive
> life, despite a couple of dodgy books early on in his
> career (the one on Lenin especially) and was always
> worth reading.
> 
> Barry
> 
>  Julian Prior <joolsyp-AT-blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Julian Prior <joolsyp-AT-blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Died yesterday aged 91:
> > 
> >
> http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,902569,00.html
> > 
> > 
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