As Birkbeck President, she is following in the footsteps of well-known historian Professor Eric Hobsbawm.
Mr Hobsbawm's deep learning, his lofty vision and, frequently, a charming style are all on display.
Ms Hobsbawm's closeness to Labour has put the agency in a prime position to profit from the new political climate.
As Eric Hobsbawm has said, terrorism is a new kind of urban pollution, and the pollutant is an insidious and chronic disquiet.
But cleverly done, networking can reap huge benefits for career success, says the UK's renowned "networking queen" and "professor of schmooze" Julia Hobsbawm.
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".
It all depends on whether Mr Hobsbawm can fit a topic into his grand preoccupation with the topic of how humanity got from the neolithic to the nuclear age.
Previously perceived as a "soft" skill, " Hobsbawm, who also runs networking business Editorial Intelligence, says effective networking will make the difference "between a highly skilled worker and an average worker.
Hobsbawm, who was recently appointed visiting professor in networking at Cass Business School, at City University, London, says in an increasingly global workforce, workers cannot afford to ignore the competitive edge it can give.
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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