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Why were the security services so obsessed with the Marxist historian Christopher Hill?

MI5 and Special Branch intercepted Hill’s mail for decades, but the former Master of Balliol was an impartial teacher and certainly no Soviet agent

Marcus Nevitt
Christopher Hill in 1965, after the announcement of his appointment as Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Getty Images
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