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Denis Cecil Hills (8 November 1913 – 26 April 2004) was a British author, teacher, traveller and adventurer. He came to international prominence in 1975 while he was living in Uganda and was sentenced to death for espionage and sedition following comments about President Idi Amin in a book which Hills wrote.
3. Mai 2004 · Denis Hills, a British writer, lecturer and adventurer once sentenced to death by Idi Amin for describing the Ugandan dictator as a “black Nero” and “village tyrant,” has died. He was 90. Hills...
For that moment alone, Hills would warrant her own eternal niche in British B-movie legend, but BFI Flipside’s welcome release of Beat Girl in a spanking restored dual-disc edition has once more thrown the spotlight on a performer whose remarkable (and still unfolding!) trajectory through film, music, television and beyond is far too ...
24. Juni 2022 · 140. 29K views 1 year ago #Uganda #IdiAmin. On This Day 1975: 'Despotic Dictator's Firing Squad Threats To Author' British writer Denis Hills was arrested in Uganda after referring to its...
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Denis Hills is widely remembered as the vocal British lecturer rescued from death row in Kampala, Uganda, by James Callaghan when he was Foreign Secretary. But perhaps his real claim to fame...
30. Apr. 2004 · Denis Hills was born on November 8 1913 at Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, where his father managed the local branch of the Midland Bank. By his own admission spoilt as a child, he grew into an ...
11. Juni 2014 · British professor and author Denis Hills (pictured right), a former military officer who found academics along his journey, traveled to Uganda in 1963 to resume his teaching duties. On this day...
