4.30 – 6.00pm followed by a wine reception

Christopher Hill was famously taciturn and his surviving papers contain many gaps and silences.  He was also reluctant to discuss method and theory directly, or at length.  In this paper Mike Braddick discusses the problems this posed in writing a book about Hill’s intellectual life, with particular reference to a central puzzle—his political and methodological commitments after 1956.

This is the second event in the new seminar series ‘New Left Histories’. Other sessions include ‘”Emotional Anarchists”? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left – scope, limits, and missed opportunities’, Sophie Scott-Brown (Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews) on 5 February, and ‘A. ‎L. Morton, British Communism, and the New Left’, James Crossley (University of Cambridge) on 9 April. More information and booking details here  (www.bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/raphael-samuel-history-centre.)

Contact Katy at RSHC for information (k.pettit@bbk.ac.uk)

Facilitated by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, a partnership between Birkbeck, University of London and Queen Mary University of London.