British writer, economic historian, social historian, university teacher, and music journalist (1917–2012); Balzan Prize, Bochum Historian Prize, Ernst Bloch Award, Wolfson History Prize, Lionel Gelber Prize, Deutscher Memorial Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Girona, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, honorary citizen of Vienna, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and Companion of Honour; member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Literature, and Academy of Sciences of Turin; child of Leopold Percy Hobsbaum and Nelly Hobsbaum; spouse of Muriel Seaman and Marlene Hobsbawm ♂
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer