[1] Royal Free Hospital, London, England.
Father: Leopold Percy Obstbaum (d. 1929)
Mother: Nelly Grün (d. 1934)
Sister: Nancy
Wife: Muriel Seaman (m. 1943, div. 1951)
Son: Joshua ("Joss")
Wife: Marlene Schwarz (m. 1962, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Julia (Hobsbawm Media and Marketing)
Son: Andrew ("Andy")
High School: Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany
High School: St Marylebone Grammar School, London, England
University: PhD History, King's College, Cambridge University
Fellow: King's College, Cambridge University
Lecturer: History, Birkbeck College (1947-59)
Lecturer: History, Reader, Birkbeck College (1959-70)
Professor: History, Birkbeck College (1970–82)
Professor: New School for Social Research (1984-97)
Administrator: President, Birkbeck College, University of London
Past & Present (journal) 1952
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary Member (1971)
British Academy 1978
Communist Party 1931
Royal Society of Literature
Companion of Honor 1998
English Ancestry Paternal
Polish Ancestry Paternal
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Austrian Ancestry Maternal
Jewish Ancestry Both parents
Author of books:
Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels (1959, early labor history)
The Jazz Scene (1959, music, as Francis Newton)
The Age of Revolution 1789–1848 (1962, history)
The Age of Capital 1848-1875 (1975, history)
The Age of Empire 1875-1914 (1987, history)
The Age of Extremes (1994, history)
How to Change the World (2011, essays, on Marxism)
