'it takes two to learn the lessons of history: one to give the information, the other to listen' Hobsbawm :)
2012-10-01 06:30:33All of the literature about Communism is of the "why I grew disenchanted" variety; Hobsbawm's Interesting Times the major exception
2012-10-01 08:30:57Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/yeDYwWAa
2012-10-01 18:39:17RT @guardianculture Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/kc7XFDXW
2012-10-01 18:40:45Eric Hobsbawm, the finest set of Marxist ears attached to a head, has died at 95. http://t.co/HJcUFMBA http://t.co/6U9d2xWo
2012-10-01 18:46:23Sad stuff, great mind @guardianculture: Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/FBSV6EyA (via @nilanjanaroy)
2012-10-01 18:47:52If you get a chance to listen to the Archive on 4 episode on Hobsbawm, you really should. Fascinating bloke.
2012-10-01 18:49:06Awful news: "@guardianculture Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/iNRP6Rb2"
2012-10-01 18:49:08with Hobsbawm gone, that really is the end of the twentieth century. Oh well, it overstayed its welcome a little bit. Good.
2012-10-01 18:49:38Here's a fine, personal, interview with Eric Hobsbawm, part of a series of philosophical interviews by Alan Macfarlane: http://t.co/BmdOJT61
2012-10-01 18:49:39RIP Eric Hobsbawm. Extraordinary man, unsurpassed thinker, gentle and engaging person
2012-10-01 18:49:51Sad to hear about Eric Hobsbawm passing. Very proud to have passed through Birkbeck with him as President.
2012-10-01 18:50:49Eric Hobsbawm dies. Outstanding historian, we'll not see his like again.
2012-10-01 18:51:04Farewell to Eric Hobsbawm. Masterly historian dies, aged 95 http://t.co/1YXz5BP4
2012-10-01 18:51:44His mind was compulsory reading for every history undergrad. Eric Hobsbawm RIP. A superstar historian. http://t.co/WKMjvRdB
2012-10-01 18:52:22Hobsbawm's relations with other historians in the Communist Party Historians Group at the birth of the New Left are especially fascinating.
2012-10-01 18:52:30Worth re-reading: Hobsbawm on his time as a jazz reporter for the New Statesman http://t.co/hvDPNDvx
2012-10-01 18:52:42The end of an era: Eric Hobsbawm has died at the age of 95. Four years ago he gave us this fascinating interview http://t.co/BO3jZLsv
2012-10-01 18:54:49Eric Hobsbawm: an appreciation http://t.co/2psK0pHc
2012-10-01 18:57:24Terrible politics, peerless history. Start with "Age of Revolution." RT @guardianculture: Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/pUQDPYsV
2012-10-01 18:58:54Eric Hobsbawm has died, aged 95. An appreciation by @martinkettle: http://t.co/C1C9W23E
2012-10-01 19:00:40ホブズボーム、死んだのか。95歳。これも一つの時代の終わりとして感慨深い。 Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/y7bL5j9n @guardian
2012-10-01 19:00:55Eric Hobsbawm, lifelong Marxist and historian, dies, aged 95 http://t.co/cbCP4Xk9
2012-10-01 19:01:37Eric Hobsbawm, EP Thompson, CLR James, Raph Samuel: great historians, beautiful writers and radical academics. Where are their successors?
2012-10-01 19:02:44