Hobsbawn reflects on his career at Birkbeck

One point of pride for me being based at Birkbeck is that it was the home of renown Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn for 65 years. Just one month before he passed away, he sat down with David Latchman, the Master of Birkbeck, to discuss the ways in which his research career intersected with the peculiarities of teaching working Londoners in the evening. The videos can be seen below.

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