Lenina Rosenweg
3rd October 2012, 20:39
Teen vigil at Hobsbawm house
02-10-12
THOUSANDS of inconsolable teenage girls have gathered at the home of deceased historian Eric Hobsbawm.
Conspiracy theories surround the 95-year-old's death
Passages from ‘The Age Of Empire – 1875-1914’ have been drawn on giant RIP cards in glitter paint, and groups of self-styled ‘histo-chicks’ are tearfully reciting paragraphs from Hobsbawm’s seminal 1978 essay on the Communist Party Historians Group.
16-year-old Nikki Hollis said: “I’ve had tickets to his talk about the Spanish Civil War at the O2 Arena for months, it was the first time I was going to see a Marxist historian live.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/teen-vigil-at-hobsbawm-house-2012100243294
In B4 Mayakovsky
02-10-12
THOUSANDS of inconsolable teenage girls have gathered at the home of deceased historian Eric Hobsbawm.
Conspiracy theories surround the 95-year-old's death
Passages from ‘The Age Of Empire – 1875-1914’ have been drawn on giant RIP cards in glitter paint, and groups of self-styled ‘histo-chicks’ are tearfully reciting paragraphs from Hobsbawm’s seminal 1978 essay on the Communist Party Historians Group.
16-year-old Nikki Hollis said: “I’ve had tickets to his talk about the Spanish Civil War at the O2 Arena for months, it was the first time I was going to see a Marxist historian live.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/teen-vigil-at-hobsbawm-house-2012100243294
In B4 Mayakovsky