ABSTRACT
The historian Christopher Hill, author of The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, was born in the English city of York in 1912; his upbringing was deeply religious. Following his time as a student, Hill immediately started out on an academic career. Hill inspired a whole generation of historians studying what were originally called the English Civil Wars, but which came to be known as the English Revolution. Hill argued that they should be taken seriously, since they showed contemporary debates and contests that would otherwise be ignored. Hill argues that we need to understand the communities and intellectual currents that informed them if we are to be able to understand what the revolution was really like. Hill’s work provides one of the liveliest and most vivid perspectives on the events of the English Revolution. The text is important for the breadth of its sources alone.
