Puritanism and Revolution

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was educated at StPeter's School, York, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a 'first' in modem history in I934· That year he was also made a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In I 936 he was lecturer in modem history at University College, Cardiff, and two years later tutor in modem history at Balliol. During his war service he had a variety of posts: Field Security Police, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Intelligence Corps and the Foreign Office. He returned to Oxford in I945 and from I958 until I965 was university lecturer in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century history. He was Ford Lecturer in English History in I962. From I965 to 1978 he was Master ofBalliol College. After leaving Balliol he became a Professor at the Open University for a time but has now retired. In I965 he was made D.Litt., Oxon. Dr Hill, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the British Academy, was a member of the editorial board of Past and Present (I 952-68), and since 196 I of theY ale University