A couple of years ago, in Rio de Janeiro, I was discussing the city’s gangster problem with a Brazilian colleague, João Moreira Salles. In trying to describe the late Marcinho VP, a charismatic, ...

The death of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm at the age of 95 two days ago set me down memory lane. The one time I met this illustrious historian was when Gene Genovese (who predeceased Hobsbawm by ...

We shall soon be flooded with books that seek to explain this blood-drenched century, but I doubt that we shall get a more penetrating and politically valuable one than Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of ...

Julia Hobsbawm has just made a programme for Radio 4 called Networking Nation. My immediate two thoughts were these: Radio 4 is obsessed with networking – I’ve heard discussions about male and female ...

It is a strange and unwelcome feature of political discourse today that double standards frequently apply when it comes to passing judgment on Nazism and Communism. Nazis are seen as criminals of evil ...

Organizations need to create attractive and welcoming workplaces in order to encourage workers to return to the office. Helpfully, at about the time the book appeared, Hobsbawm began a regular column ...

LONDON - Eric Hobsbawm, a lifelong socialist and one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95, his daughter said Monday. Julia Hobsbawm said her father died overnight at a ...

LONDON — Eric Hobsbawm, who was one of Britain’s most distinguished historians despite retaining an allegiance to the Communist Party that lasted long after many supporters had left in disgust, died ...

Eric Hobsbawm was a historian and a Communist. The first pursuit brought him great success. When he died, in 2012, at the age of ninety-five, nearly all of his books were still in print, his writings ...

The historian Eric Hobsbawm was a central European from central casting. Born in 1917 (the year of the Russian Revolution), he grew up in Vienna and Berlin before coming to London at the age of 15. He ...

Long a loyal member of the Communist Party, Hobsbawm wielded enormous influence during the 1960s and 1970s, when his ideas helped to provide the intellectual underpinning for Left-wing revolutionary ...

An authoritative biography of the great historian focuses on the forces that shaped his worldview In England, or rather in the comfortable parts of England, to have been a communist is still ...