ALCS database, 19 Sept. 2006 (E. Hobsbawm, born 9 June 1917)
BL auth. file, 19 Sept. 2006 (Francis Newton is pseud. of Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, born 1917)
Brit. Mus. gen. cat. of printed books, 1966-1970 vol. 11 (Hobsbawm, Eric John Ernest)
Data from India (Hobsbawm, Eric John; b. 1917)
El Pensamiento revolucionario ... 1978 t.p. (Eric Hobsbawn)
Guardian WWW site, Oct. 1, 2012 (Eric Hobsbawm; Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm; b. June 9, 1917, Alexandria; d. Oct. 1, 2012; historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach; published a Penguin special, The jazz scene, in 1959 under the pen-name Francis Newton (many years later it was reissued with Hobsbawm identified as the author))
His Labour's turning point, 1800-1900, 1948.
New York times WWW site, Oct. 2, 2012 (in obituary published Oct. 1: Eric J. Hobsbawm; b. Eric John Hobsbawm, 1917, Alexandria, Egypt, where a confused clerk at the British consulate misspelled the last name of his father, Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, an unsuccessful merchant from the East End of London; d. Monday [Oct. 1, 2012], London, aged 95)