Time: 12:00PM–1:30PM

In November 2007 I caused a furor by writing to an e-mail discussion group on John Milton that Christopher Hill as a historian was wont to massage the evidence to fit his political biases, and that I understood that he was almost certainly a Soviet agent. Hate mail poured in, but one Canadian scholar wrote in support of my view of Hill's scholarship and another pointed to a website on which the question of Hill's Soviet links was discussed. After reading the literature that site pointed to, and a good deal more, I have come to the conclusion that the Master of Balliol College Oxford had indeed been a Soviet agent. In my talk I shall summarize the evidence.