Eric Hobsbawm Archives • International Socialism

Popular Fronting, 1934-2012

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Richard J Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019), £35 Breadth and verve made Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) the most sold and most translated of socialist historians ever to write in English. Compared with his… Continue Reading →

Eric Hobsbawm’s histories

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

Marx remains the essential base of any adequate study of history, because—so far—he alone has attempted to formulate a methodological approach to history as a whole, and to envisage and explain the entire process of human social evolution. In this… Continue Reading →