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George Albert Manuel Hills (6 June 1918 – 13 September 2002) was a

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journalist and historian. He was a

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World Service broadcaster, Hispanist and a Fellow of the

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Life

Hills was born in

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, to a British father and a Spanish mother (from the Navarrese town of

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), and was brought up in a bilingual environment. He got his first degree at King's College,

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. Next he was commissioned in the

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and during

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he served as intelligence official in Europe and the Far East. In 1946 he joined the

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being the South East Asia Programme Organiser in the BBC External Service. Next, he became the BBC South American Representative, living in

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with his wife, Marie, for two and a half years. Upon his return to the United Kingdom he held several positions such as Programmes Organiser for Spanish (from 1951 to 1959) and Latin American Spanish Services and Staff Training Officer for External Services. He lectured regularly in British universities about Spanish affairs. He retired from the BBC in 1977. His historical works are all related to Hispanic issues: ''Franco-The Man and his Nation'' (1967), a biography of the Spanish

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Francisco Franco for which Hills was granted rarely given interviews; ''Spain'' (1970); ''Rock of Contention-A History of

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'' (1974) and ''The Battle for Madrid'' (1976). He could not finish his last work, a history of the

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. He was also involved in Spanish academic and journalist life upon the death of Franco. He helped found the

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in 1977.

External links

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Profile: George Hills
'' El País'', 13 August 1985 (in

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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hills, George 1918 births 2002 deaths Alumni of King's College London British male journalists Historians of Gibraltar Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of World War II 20th-century British historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Members of the Order of the British Empire Mexican emigrants to the United Kingdom