Industry and Empire

Eric Hobsbawm was born in 1917. Educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge, he became a Fellow of the British Academy and has been showered with academic honours from around the world. He taught until retirement at Birkbeck College, University of London, and since then at the New School for Social Research in New York. His many books have been translated into several languages.

• Britain in 1750; origin of the industrial revolution; 1780-1840; the human results of the industrial revolution 1750-1850; agriculture 1750-1850; industrialization - the second phase 1840-95; Britain in the world economy; standards of living 1850-1914; the beginnings of decline; the land 1850-1960; between the wars; government and economy; the long boom; society since 1914; the other Britain; a harsher economic climate.