Via History Today
Any history student will recognize this name as "fuck, why can't any of these damn historians just have names like: Jone or Smith?" Now all the journalists that couldn't quite make it in the current events or world news department, now working regurgitating Wikipedia entries as "historical articles", knows how history students feel.
Marxist historian, and all round odd ball, Eric Hobsbawn, died today at the age of 95. His best known works include: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1846, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Hobsbawm was number 1 on hollywood black list for being a loud and proud communist, keeping membership of the Communist party long after the Iron Curtain had been liften and the rest of the world went: "WTF?" to that shit. This caused Hobsbawn to constantly receive negative press from the likes of the totaly unbiased and open minded jerks at the Daily Mail
Farewell comrade Hobsbawm, you were an inspiration to historians and eccentrics everywhere.
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