{"id":47054,"date":"2025-06-20T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47054"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:54:49","slug":"michael-braddick-christopher-hill-the-life-of-a-radical-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47054","title":{"rendered":"Michael Braddick, \u201eChristopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A luminous biography of one of the last century\u2019s most influential historians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. While his career brought many of the trappings of establishment respectability \u2014 he was both a Fellow of the British Academy and the Master of Balliol College, Oxford \u2014 he was also seen as a threat to that very same establishment. Under surveillance by the security services for decades, in the 1980s Hill was publicly accused of having been a Soviet agent during the war. His was a Cold War life, as well as a scholarly one.<br><br>In this brilliant work of biography, Michael Braddick charts Hill&#8217;s development from his abandonment of the respectable, provincial Methodism of his youth, through his embrace of Marxism, to his membership and eventual break with the Communist Party, as well as his celebrated intellectual career. While many of his books \u2014 not least the thrilling work of historical resurrection <em>The World Turned Upside Down<\/em> and <em>God&#8217;s Englishman<\/em>, his classic biography of Oliver Cromwell \u2014 are still widely read and admired, his intellectual reputation was damaged by sustained academic criticism in the politically charged atmosphere of the 1980s.<br><br>Braddick\u2019s judicious biography not only situates Hill\u2019s life and work in their historical context but seeks to rescue Hill for a new generation of readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>320 pages \/ April 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/983-christopher-hill\">Christopher Hill<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hill.webp?fit=423%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53802,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53802","url_meta":{"origin":47054,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages: Becoming, Surviving, Managing&#8221;, eds. 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