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Eric Hobsbawm

September 2023

  • Martin Kettle

    Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and how good leaders can change lives

    Martin Kettle
    The former Italian president was a communist who learned that the common good involves compromise, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

November 2019

  • Marlene Hobsbawm at home in London

    Books interview
    Marlene Hobsbawm: life with Eric and footsie with Kirk Douglas

    At 87, she discusses her memoir of her adventurous early life and her 50-year marriage to the great historian

February 2019

  • Eric Hobsbawm travelling in Peru in 1971.

    Eric Hobsbawm by Richard J Evans review – Marxist intellectual, national treasure

    A richly detailed biography reveals Hobsbawm’s inner life, and underlines how he became the world’s Top Historian and a literary star
  • Eric Hobsbawm

    Richard Evans should have cancelled his book launch at Senate House

    Letter: Keith Flett has suspended seminars at the University of London’s Senate House as an act of solidarity with the outsourced workers there

    • Eric Hobsbawm would not have backed University of London boycott

    • Book of the day
      Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J Evans – review

    • Talk about Marxist historian under fire for breaching workers' rights boycott

January 2019

  • Eric Hobsbawm in North London. 16/09/02.

    Eric Hobsbawm's dangerous reputation

    He was branded a Stalinist, and was spied on for decades by MI5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade? His private papers tell a different story

May 2018

  • Is this the most communist graveyard in the UK? – video

    Ahead of Karl Marx's 200th birthday we take a tour around Highgate cemetery, the final resting place of the father of communism and other prominent lefties

July 2016

  • Revolution Plaza Havana Cuba.

    Viva La Revolución by Eric Hobsbawm review – Latin America from leftwing hopes to bloody dictatorships

    The renowned historian was drawn to Cuba following the revolution and remained compelled by a continent destined to undermine conventional political truths

July 2015

  • Italian forensic police at the house where mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested near Corleone in Sicily in 2006.

    Top 10s
    The top 10 books about the mafia

    Whether through the seductive myth of honourable outlaws, or the bloody truth of ruthless criminals, this shadowy group has generated a vast literature – these are its highlights

October 2014

  • Zoe Williams

    These Stasi-style outrages show just how low Britain’s spies will stoop

    Zoe Williams
    Zoe Williams: Revelations of never-ending surveillance suggest that police and MI5 consider radical views criminal in themselves
  • British historian Eric Hobsbawm at work in January 1976

    MI5 spied on leading British historians for decades, secret files reveal

    Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill had phones tapped, correspondence intercepted and friends and wives monitored
  • Julia Hobsbawm

    Julia Hobsbawm: ‘I’m interested in social mobility, and I think there is a stuckness going on’

    Julia Hobsbawm knows all about networks. The former PR, and daughter of a famous Marxist, teaches and makes radio shows about them. But is it right to revel in who you know? Zoe Williams takes her on

November 2013

  • Lucian Freud exhibition in Vienna

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Should we be so shocked that Lucian Freud's work is on show in Vienna?

    Jonathan Jones: Yes, Freud refused to lend his works to Austria for most of his life, but maybe this new exhibition should be seen as a tribute to the power of art in the face of adversity

October 2013

  • Daily Mail widens attack on Ed Miliband

    Paper insists assault on 'poisonous dogma' of Labour leader's father addresses questions of enormous public interest

April 2013

  • Hugh Muir

    Guardian diary
    Diary: Eric Hobsbawm's final history lesson – you're only as old as you feel

    Hugh Muir
    Hugh Muir: Moving tribute from a younger fan. The Italian president, aged 87

March 2013

  • Eric Hobsbawm: 'a revolutionary traditionalist'.

    Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review

  • Eric Hobsbawm

    Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century – review

February 2013

  • The late historian Tony Judt in Manhattan, 2008.

    Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder – review

    Written as Judt was dying, this critical survey of 20th-century thought is a towering achievement, writes Christopher Bray
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