Professor Eric Hobsbawm
Professor Eric Hobsbawm has significantly shaped the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology since his arrival at Birkbeck in 1947, and continues to be actively involved in our intellectual community.
Professor Hobsbawm joined the Department as a lecturer and became Reader in 1959, Professor in 1970 and Emeritus Professor in 1982.
He has exerted a profound influence on the understanding of European and particularly British history through his books and other writings. The role of the publicly engaged historian, which he so well exemplifies, is one also enthusiastically embraced by other Birkbeck colleagues, notably Professor John Arnold, Professor Joanna Bourke and Professor Michael Hunter.
Professor Hobsbawm is currently President of Birkbeck and Emeritus Professor of History in the Department.
Professor Hobsbawm can be written to, care of the department, at the following address:
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, 30 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DQ
Honours
- 2008: Bochum History Prize
- 2008: Honorary degree from Charles University in Prague
- 2008: Honorary degree from University of Vienna
- 2008: Honorary citizenship from Vienna
- 2003: Balzan Prize recipient
- 2000: Ernst Bloch Prize
- 1999: Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung (Hauptpreis)
- 1998: Companion of Honour, Order of the Companions of Honour
- 1978: Fellow of the British Academy
- 1973: Honorary Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Photograph © Jane Bown, 2002
