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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Julia Hobsbawm: ‘I’m interested in social mobility, and I think there is a stuckness going on’
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 The historian Eric Hobsbawm, who was ...
Julia Hobsbawm Explains Why Leadership Needs To Be Rethought And Retaught For The Nowhere Office Age
Today we continue our conversation with Julia Hobsbawm, award-winning author of books including The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future and The Simplicity Principle, ...
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