Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria and grew up in Vienna and Berlin in the 1930s. He read history at Cambridge and since 1947 has taught at Birkbeck College, University of London where he is now Emeritus Professor, as well as holding visiting fellowships at universities around the world. He has seventeen honorary doctorates and many other awards and honours.

He has written on the 'long' nineteenth century and the 'short' twentieth century (Age of Extremes, which has been translated into thirty-six languages), and on many other subjects. He has also written a volume of memoirs, Interesting Times.