academic history careers are so fascinating, richard evans, who you may know from his three volume history of the the third reich, started out as a german social historian and wrote, among other things, a book about cholera outbreaks in 19th century hamburg
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Hobsbawm's career was moving forward. His books went from 18th, to 19th, to 20th century. E.P. Thompson went backwards: from 19th century (Morris) to early 19th (Making), to 18th (Whigs & Hunters, Customs in Commons) to 17th (Blake's ancestors in Witness Against the Beast).
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