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    • Friday, 1 February, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Eric Hobsbawm: the Marxist intellectual who altered history

      Richard J Evans’s biography portrays a man who enthralled readers but remained controversial to the end

    • Friday, 17 June, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Viva la Revolución: Eric Hobsbawm on Latin America’, by Eric Hobsbawm

      The Latin American writings of a great Marxist historian are remarkably prescient

    • Friday, 15 January, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists’, by David Aaronovitch

      David Aaronovitch’s memoir of his communist upbringing

    • Friday, 21 March, 2014
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Has the nation state had its day?

      ‘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’

    • Monday, 3 June, 2013
      Special Report
      Colombia: A rediscovered country

      For decades the rugged Andean landscape harboured crime and violence, but today regional pride is emerging in a revived economy. By John Paul Rathbone

    • Friday, 19 April, 2013
      ObituaryLife & Arts
      Remembering Dad

      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

    • Friday, 29 March, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A past master to remember

      Eric Hobsbawm’s writing uncovers the man behind the historian

    • Friday, 22 February, 2013
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Brazil: the first big ‘soft’ power

      Now that difficult times are on the horizon again, Brazil hopefully will rise to meet the challenge once more

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      Long lives: the end of Empire
    • Friday, 23 November, 2012
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      A question of identity

      The nation-state is shrinking to just a flag, some sports teams and a pile of debts

    • Monday, 1 October, 2012
      Life & Arts
      An appreciation – from one historian to another

      Hobsbawm liberated socialist humanism from the mechanical certainties of class doctrine, says Simon Schama

    • Monday, 1 October, 2012
      ObituaryObituary
      Historian who excited wide controversy

      Eric Hobsbawm, leftwing writer of global renown, 1917-2012

    • Friday, 17 August, 2012
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      A time-traveller in London

      ‘Wandering around town before and during the Games, I saw ghosts of people I’d known on almost every street corner’

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      Veiled talk of American imperialism
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      ReviewLife & Arts
      How to Change the World

      Eric Hobsbawm makes the case for reading Karl Marx in our turbulent times

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