As Birkbeck President, she is following in the footsteps of well-known historian Professor Eric Hobsbawm.

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As Eric Hobsbawm has said, terrorism is a new kind of urban pollution, and the pollutant is an insidious and chronic disquiet.

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The historian Eric Hobsbawm famously claimed that British traditions "which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented".

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The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.

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