[lbo-talk] Article from The Hindu: Sent to you by KJ Khoo

[KJ]

2009/3/9 W. Kiernan <wkiernan at gmail.com>:
> KJ wrote:
>>
>> Apologies. I thought I was sending the URL, not this
>> kind of messy format.
>
> Thanks for posting, though.  This sounds like an interesting story, and of
> course now I'm going to have to dig up some of V. G. Kiernan's books, since
> not only was he compared to Hobsbawm, whose "Echoes of the Marseillaise" was
> hot stuff, but also he has the same last name as me. There are few enough
> Kiernans that we're probably at least distantly related.

Always imagined you were related to VG -- if only to negate that Miliband :)

But if you're interested, here's an obituary by Hobsbawm on VG

http://www.organizedrage.com/2009/02/obituary-victor-kiernan-historian-with.html

kj