Historian Erich Hobsbawm had a vivid prose style, a superiority complex and all the blind spots of a Marxist true believer. More in this weekend's book review:
Early in 1998, the historian Eric Hobsbawm went to Buckingham Palace to be made a Companion of Honour, thereby joining one of the most distinguished orders in British public life.
As always with Queen Elizabeth II, few if any knew her thoughts, but the palace building made its own feelings clear enough. As the queen presented the order’s official insignia, a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling, missing the historian and thereby narrowly avoiding what the British might understatedly term “an unfortunate incident.”
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