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Richard J Evans’s biography portrays a man who enthralled readers but remained controversial to the end
The Latin American writings of a great Marxist historian are remarkably prescient
David Aaronovitch’s memoir of his communist upbringing
‘You only need to look at a map to see how inappropriate – if not crazy – it is to apply this concept to some parts of the world’
For decades the rugged Andean landscape harboured crime and violence, but today regional pride is emerging in a revived economy. By John Paul Rathbone
Julia Hobsbawm on the daunting intellect and tireless curiosity of her father Eric Hobsbawm, the historian and champion of the left who died last year
Eric Hobsbawm’s writing uncovers the man behind the historian
Now that difficult times are on the horizon again, Brazil hopefully will rise to meet the challenge once more
The nation-state is shrinking to just a flag, some sports teams and a pile of debts
Hobsbawm liberated socialist humanism from the mechanical certainties of class doctrine, says Simon Schama
Eric Hobsbawm, leftwing writer of global renown, 1917-2012
‘Wandering around town before and during the Games, I saw ghosts of people I’d known on almost every street corner’
Eric Hobsbawm makes the case for reading Karl Marx in our turbulent times
