Few works of history have succeeded so completely in forcing their
readers to take a fresh look at the evidence as Christopher Hill's
The World Turned Upside Down - and that achievement is rooted
firmly in Hill's exceptional problem-solving skills. Traditional
interpretations of the English Civil War concentrated heavily on a
top-down analysis of the doings of king and parliament. Hill looked
at 'history from below,' focusing instead on the ways in which the
people of Britain saw the society they lived in and nurtured hopes
for a better future. Failing to understand these factors - and the
impact they had on the origins and outcomes of the wars of the
1640s - means failing to understand the historical period. In this
sense, Hill's influential work is a great example of the
problem-solving skills of asking productive questions and
generating alternative possibilities. It forced a generation of
historians to re-evaluate the things they thought they knew about a
key pivot point in British history - and went on to influence the
generations that came after them.
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