Richard Leslie Hill


Richard Leslie Hill was an English civil servant and historian of Sudan, "one of the great pioneers in the study of the modern history of the Sudan". Lecturer in Near Eastern history at Durham University from 1949 to 1966, he established the Sudan Archive there, "one of the most remarkable initiatives by any British university".

Works

Hill's books fall into three main classes: reference works, editions of 19th-century memoirs or travel journals, and synthesising monographs.