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Christopher Hill

1912 - 2003

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John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003) was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Hill has received more than 22,893 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Christopher Hill is the 263rd most popular historian (down from 260th in 2019), the 2,328th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,459th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Historian.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.70

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  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Christopher Hill ranks 263 out of 561Before him are Joseph de Guignes, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Abraham Geiger, Bobojon Ghafurov, and Guglielmo Ferrero. After him are Thomas the Archdeacon, George Buchanan, Émile Mâle, Bernard Desclot, Yitzhak Arad, and Francisco López de Gómara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Christopher Hill ranks 168Before him are Alfred Schwarzmann, Rihei Sano, Boun Oum, Keisuke Kinoshita, B. D. Jatti, and Georges Franju. After him are Claude Pompidou, Nie Er, Nick Cravat, Pietro Ferraris, Campanal I, and Ioannis Alevras. Among people deceased in 2003, Christopher Hill ranks 156Before him are Wilfred Thesiger, Hume Cronyn, Fadwa Tuqan, Robert Stack, Kir Bulychev, and Noel Redding. After him are Hans Hotter, Sadegh Khalkhali, Jorge Oteiza, Bigode, Lewis A. Coser, and Hans Hermann Groër.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Hill ranks 2,328 out of 8,785Before him are Chris Squire (1948), Guy Edwards (1942), Roger Williams (1603), Jamie Dornan (1982), Gerry Rafferty (1947), and F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782). After him are Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), John Hadley (1682), Stanley Myers (1930), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Ephraim Chambers (1680), and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (1210).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Christopher Hill ranks 25Before him are Tony Judt (1948), John Foxe (1516), Gerald of Wales (1146), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Quentin Skinner (1940), and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810). After him are George Buchanan (1506), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Paul Kennedy (1945), and John Keegan (1934).