Catalogue description Eric John Ernest HOBSBAWM, aliases HOBSBAUM, Francis NEWTON: British. A Party member...

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Details of KV 2/3980
Reference: KV 2/3980
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Eric John Ernest HOBSBAWM, aliases HOBSBAUM, Francis NEWTON: British. A Party member from 1936 while at Cambridge, HOBSBAWM first came to the Security Service's notice in 1942 when a sergeant in the Army Education Corps; he wished to invite a German communist to lecture to troops. In the same year he was in contact with the British Communist Party HQ about his propaganda activities among soldiers, which had caused concern to the army authorities. After World War II, while pursuing an academic career at Birkbeck College in London and King's College, Cambridge, he was chairman of the Historians Group of the Party until he resigned in 1959. He was in contact with senior members of the Party, including Margot HEINEMANN and James MacGIBBON, and with the convicted Soviet spy Alan NUNN MAY and his wife. His relations with the Party deteriorated from 1959 after he began to write for non-communist publications using the name 'Francis NEWTON'

Note: Serial 13a: 1942 letter from HOBSBAWM to a friend with his views on a second front. Serial 65a: summary
Date: 1942 Jun 15 - 1945 May 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PF 211764 VOL 1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Retained Until 2014
Record opening date: 24 October 2014

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