Date: Thursday 18 October 2012
Time: 17.00-19.00
Venue: Helmore 208, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, UK

All welcome - free admission.

Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's leading historians, died last week. He was the author of The Age of Revolution, Captain Swing, Labouring Men and other major works that shaped the discipline. He was also an important voice on the political left. His 1978 essay, 'The Forward March of Labour Halted', became a key text in the revisionism that began to reshape Labour in the 1980s. Few scholars have their passing announced on the front page of newspapers, but this was true of Hobsbawm.

This will be an informal gathering to reflect on Hobsbawm's life and work. Dr Rohan McWilliam will commence the discussion with a short paper and we will then discuss the significance of Hobsbawm's work. It will be an opportunity to discuss the shape of the way history has been practised over the last half century and to consider the ways that Hobsbawm shaped the ways we think about the nineteenth century.

This event is organised by the Labour History Research Unit.

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