Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress

Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress

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Why is History still written by men?

The Guardian Review, 6 February 2016, p. 3

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Hitler as Military Leader

Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, Summer 2016, pp. 10-16.

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‘L’impérialisme écologique n’explique pas la Shoah’

Le Monde, global edition online, 17 October 2015.

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End the secrecy now

The Sun, 20 July 2015, p. 7.

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Think Again

World War II, May/June 2015, pp. 66-73

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Museum at War

The Times, 27 February 2015, p. 29

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My people will be passengers, not customers

King for a Day’ series, The Guardian, 14 February 2015, p. 33.

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The darkest memory

The Guardian, review section, 7 February 2015, pp. 2-4

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Die Heimsuching

Die Zeit: Hamburg, 17 November 2014, p. 1.

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The Front Lines

The Guardian, 26 July 2014, Review Section, p. 4.

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Sino-US differences will not lead to global war, says historian: Interview

Interview in Straits Tines Asia Report (Singapore), 31 March 2014 (online http://www.stasiareport.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/sino-us-differences-will-not-lead-global-war-says-historian-20

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Interview with Professor Sir Richard J. Evans

in Historia, Journal of the Historical Society of Israel, No. 31-32, February 2014, pp. 7-47 (in Hebrew).

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Enough of the armchair generals

The Guardian Saturday Review, 15 March 2014.

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Ten-point guide to dodging publishing pitfalls

Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2014

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The Past That Never Was

BBC History Magazine, March 2014, pp. 36-39.

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How to remember a war

The Indian Express, 3 February 2014, p. 10.

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Will the Next World War Start in the Middle East

The New Republic, 25 January 2014 (online interview)

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WWI coin “inappropriate” and Gove is a “donkey

says Cambridge academic’, Varsity, 24 January 2014

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Michael Gove Shows His Ignorance of History – Again

The Guardian Review, 6 January 2014, inside back page.

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Books of 2013

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 48/2013 (19 December 2013), p. 51

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Letter in London Review of Books

35/24 (19 December 2013), p. 4 (see response two issues later)

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Der Angriff

Merian: Dresden (Hamburg, December 2013), pp. 50-51.

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Interview on Der Landser

BBC History Magazine (History Extra website), 18 September 2013

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Myth-busting

The Guardian, Review section, 13 July 2013, pp. 2-4; part reprinted in Primary History: The Primary Education Journal of the Historical Association, 65 (Autumn, 2013), pp. 16-17

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Angleterre: l’île ou le monde?

Le débat, 175 (mai-août 2013), pp. 163-71

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Syphilis – the great scourge

Microbiology Today , Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 2013), pp. 62-65

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The Mr Men game

The New Statesman 17-23 May 2013, p. 29.

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The rote sets in. Michael Gove’s new history curriculum

The New Statesman, 15-21 March 2012, pp. 60-61.

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On Her Majesty’s scholarly service

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7-13 February 2013, pp. 40-43

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Nevana ne skrajna desnica

Dnevnik (Slovenia) 29 Jan 2013, p. 4 (interview).

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The Vôlkischer Beobachter

Letter to the editor, Times Literary Supplement, 18 January 2013, p. 6

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Ein Volk vor dem Gericht der Geschichte

Geo-Epoche Nr. 58, pp. 150-55 [interview]

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Books of the Year

New Statesman 29 November 2012.

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A Right Royal Rumpus

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 October 2012, p. 24 (correspondence and final reply in following four issues).

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Why did the Nazis come to power?

New Perspectives on Modern History 18/1 (Sept 2012), 6-9

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On The Pursuit of Power

interviews on Share Radio, 13 September 2016

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On The Third Reich in History and Memory

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drive-Time with Chris Mann, May 2016.

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On David Cesarani’s Final Solution

BBC Radio 4 Today, 8.50 a.m., 27 January 2016

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Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit

National Geographic & Channel 4, October 2014.

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ZDF Auslandsjournal

6 August 2014, on commemoration of World War I in the UK

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Interview on conspiracy theory

KABC Drive-Time radio, Los Angeles, 5 June 2014.

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Interview on Euro elections

Deutschlandfunk, 28 May 2014.

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‘History and Legacy of War’ Dialogue, CCTV (Beijing), 19th April 2014

http://english.cntv.cn/2014/04/20/VIDE1397946961959184.shtml

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Discussion of Mr Gove on World War I commemoration

BBC Radio 4 The World at One and Channel 4 television news, 3 January 2014.

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The Nazi Search for the Holy Grail

Channel 5/NERD-TV, 22 November 2013

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Seven Days That Made The Führer

Channel 5/Icon Films, 20 November 2013

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The Nazi Underworld

National Geographic tv channel, two programmes, September/October 2013

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The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 8-9pm

Wednesday 27 March 2013, on the national history curriculum

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Sunday Politics with Andrew Neill and David Starkey

‘head to head’ on the national history curriculum, Sunday 3 March 2013, 11 a.m., BBC1 television.

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Interview about careers in history on graduate student workshop website:

http://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2014/02/18/professor-sir-richard-j-evans-on-history-and-the-public/

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BBC website article and interview on conspiracies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24650841

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Detlev Peukert:

Pioneer of "History from Below"’, The Guardian, 28 May 1990, p. 43

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William Carr

Schleswig-Holstein questions and Labour certainties', The Guardian, 22 June 1991.

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Francis Carsten

'New Light on the Reich'. Obituary of Francis Carsten. The Guardian, 7 July 1998.

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W. L. Guttsman, 1920-1998

German History, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1998), pp. 417-22

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Werner Mosse

1920-2001 The Guardian, 15 July 2001

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Wolfgang Mommsen

The Guardian, 17 August 2004

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Gerald Feldman

The Guardian, 15 January 2008

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Ernst Klee

The Guardian, 24 May 2013.

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Frank Whitford 1941-2014

The Guardian, 24 January 2014, p. 35.

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler

The Guardian, 2 August 2014, p. 34.

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Alice Teichova

The Guardian, 23 May 2015, p. 41.

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Peter Gay

The Guardian, 25 May 2015, p. 33.

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Carl E. Schorske

The Guardian, 20 November 2015, p. 45.

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Fritz Stern

The Guardian online, 23 May 2016.

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Ernst Nolte

The Guardian online, 29 August 2016.

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Nightwaves, BBC Radio 4

July 4th, 2012: Germany’s growing economic power

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Today, BBC radio 4

5 August 2011, discussion on whether there is ‘more news’ nowadays

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Hitler’s life

reconstructions TV programme

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The Valkyrie Legacy

History Channel documentary and Bonus Feature on the Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie

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Nightwaves

BBC Radio 3, October 2010, on the end of reparations

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Gefallen für Führer und Vaerland

Interview with Alexander Kluge, SAT 1 television, 11 July 2010, 00.30 hrs

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Nightwaves

BBC Radio 3, on Hugh Trevor-Roper, 6 July 2010

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Interviews on the Irving verdict, 11 April 2000,

with Sky News, BBC Radio 4 News, Channel 4 television news, BBC 2 Newsnight television, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio, Swedish Television News, BBC World Service, BBC News 24, West German Radio, etc

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Cholera in Hamburg 1892 (April, 1991).

Half-hour radio programme for WDR3, Cologne

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Four German radio interviews on cholera in Hamburg 1892

NDR and Radio 107, various programmes, December, 1990

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Mr Evans geht durch Hamburg

45 minute film by Klaus Wildenhahn about my research into the cholera epidemic of 1892, broadcast on NDR television on 9 April, 1989 and rebroadcast on anniversary of Hamburg cholera epidemic, 17 September, 1992.

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A New Threat for a New Era

New Statesman 2 July 2012, pp. 29-33.

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Is history history?

The Guardian, 18 May 2012, p. 26.

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1066 and all that

New Statesman, 23 January 2012, pp, 42-5, and letter in 30 Jan issue p. 6.

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Books of the Year

The Times Literary Supplement 2 December 2011, p. 10.

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The Historian’ Historians

History Today, 61/12, December 2011, pp. 67-8.

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A year in books

New Statesman, 21 November 21011, p. 50.

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The shackles of the past

New Statesman 21 November 2011, pp. 22.25.

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An Exchange: Toepfer and the Holocaust

Standpoint 35, November 2011, pp. 16-17.

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Learn for the right reasons

The Guardian, 27 August 2011, p. 43.

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Critical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?

Times Higher Education Supplement, 4-10 August 2011, pp. 26-27.

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Remembrance of Things Past

Men’s Style, May 2011, 123-9 (interview quote)

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Art in the Time of War

The National Interest 113 (May/June, 2011), 16-26.

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The Third Reich at War

An Interview with Richard J. Evans’, History News Network 13 April 2011.

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The Wonderfulness of Us (the Tory interpretation of History)

London Review of Books 33/6 (17 March 2011), 9-12 (see letters and response in subsequent issues).

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Tainted money?

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 March 2011, pp. 41-44; see also correspondence in THES 14 April 2011, p. 38.

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Panel Games

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 February 2011, p. 44.

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Glaubt der Diktator an seinen Mythos, sind seine Tage gezählt

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 January 2011, ‘International’ , p. 5.

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Response to critics

London Review of Books, 2 December 2010, p. 4.

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Foreword, Wolfson College Magazine 34

Wolfson College Magazine 34 (2009-2010), p. 5.

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Summer reading

CAM 60 (Easter 2010), p. 43.

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Sussex cuts threaten a proud history of research-led excellence

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10-16 June 2010, pp.31-2

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Richard Evans discusses Puck of Pook’s Hill

CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine 59 (Lent 2010), p. 53.

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Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews: An Exchange

The New York Review of Books Vol. LVII, No. 2 (February 2010), p. 44.

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Peaceful war?

BBC History Magazine Vol. 11 (2010), No. 2, pp. 52-56.

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Waaeheid en herinnering

Nexus 53 (2009), pp. 139-52.

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What are you reading

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17-23 September 2009, p. 47.

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Stalingrad

Special Supplement to The Guardian, 8 September 2009, pp. 5-11.

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Truth, in Mick Gordon and Chriis Wilkinson (eds.)

Conversations on Truth (Continuum Books, London, July 2009), 61-73.

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The history makers

The Guardian 2, 26 May 2009, pp. 10-11.

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Van euthanasia tot Holocaust

interview in Reformatorisch Dagbla, 3 June 2008, p. 17.

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The Nazi Seizure of Power

by William Sheridan Allen, Times Higher Education Supplement, 23-29 April, 2009, p.. 37

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Perverting the course of science

The Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2008, p. 29.

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As Europe slumps, is the far Right rising?

The death of Jörg Haider has cast light on the resurgence of fascist politics in Austria and Italy’, The Times, Tuesday October 14, 2008, p. 28.

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Writing the history of Nazi Germany

BBC History Magazine Vol. 9,) 10 (October 2008), pp. 60-61.

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On the Current State of History

An Interview with Richard J. Evans’, in Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), Recent Themes in Historical Thinking. Historians in Conversation (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2008), pp. 23-27.

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Richard Evans: “Hitler-Parodien? Wenn’s lustig ist

Interview in Die Welt, 16 January 2007, page 27.

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

British students cannot do justice to international history if they have no understanding of foreign languages’, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 2007), 86-7.

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It broadens the mind

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 8 (August 2006), 27.

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The Death of Old Europe

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 September 2005, p. 18

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Hitler’s Dictatorship

History Review, 51 (March 2005), 20-25.

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Interview in Rita Kuczynski (ed.)

Ostdeutschland war nie etwas Natürliches (Berlin, 2005), 47-57

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Zwei deutsche Diktaturen im 20. Jahrhundert? Essay

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1-2/2005, 3 Jan 2005, 3-9.

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The Coming of the Third Reich

History Review, 50 (Dec. 2004), 12-17.

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I like a cruise with strings attached

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 September 2004, p. 24.

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Response

Historically Speaking, 5/4 (March, 2004), 28-32 (see above, item 55; also reprinted in Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), Recent Themes in Historical Thinking. Historians in Conversation (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2008), 120-30).

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Today’s History: Richard J. Evans

by Daniel Snowman, History Today, Vol. 54 No. 1, January 2003, pp. 45-47 (reprinted in Daniel Snowman, Historians (Palgave, London, 2007), pp. 232-43).

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Historiker sind Hofnarren

Interview in die tageszeitung (Berlin) 8 December 2003), p. 17.

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Summer books selection

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 4 (2003) No. 7 (July), 68.

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Our job is to explain, it is for others to judge: What is History?

Big Questions in History, no. 1’, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 June 2003, pp. 20-21.

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Blast from the past

Article on the Iraq war, The Guardian G2 section, 19 February 2003, p. 4.

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Just how intelligent?

Thee official history of MI5, The Guardian, 18 February 2001, education section, p. 15.

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Time to make Nazis history, or is there life in Hitler yet?

Joint interview with Sir Ian Kershaw, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 January 2003, pp. 24-25.

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Telling it Like it Wasn’t

BBC History Magazine 3 (2002), pp. 2-4; also in Historically Speaking, 5/4 (March, 2004) and in Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), Recent Themes in Historical Thinking. Historians in Conversation (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2008), 120-30).

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Contribution to IPR Discussion

Cambridge University Reporter Vol. 133/6, No. 5901 (30 Oct. 2002), pp. 233-4.

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Why I believe Cambridge’s IPR proposals threaten academic freedom

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November 2002, p. 16.

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David Irving: The Sequel

The New Statesman, 2 September 2002, p. 23.

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Writ-Shy Decision

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 July 2002, p. 13.

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The Führer, the Jackal, the Professor and his Publishers – The Sequel

Private Eye, 12-25 July 2002, p. 26 (also letter in following issue).

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Article on the Irving Case

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15.

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G. R, Elton and the Practice of History

History Today, December 2001, p. 3

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Mullahs and kulaks – he would bin them all

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 November 2001

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History on Trial

The Caian, November 2001, pp. 179-183.

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Geschichtsfälschung und Wahrheit

Göttinger Tageblatt, 5 November 2001.

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An interest stirred

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8 (August, 2001), p. 37.

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Todesstrafe als politisches Symbol

die tageszeitung (Berlin), 9-10 July 2001, p. 6.

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Victory for history

Interview by Jon Boone, Cherwell, 4 May 2001, p. 9.

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In Defence of Common Sense

Cherwell, 27 April 2001, p. 6

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Pursuit of truth

Interview of expert witnesses by Joe Plomin, The Guardian, education supplement, 24 April 2001, pp. 10-11.

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Is this the past as we know it?

The Independent, 12 March 2001, Monday review p. 5.

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How history became popular again

New Statesman, 12 February 2001. Pp. 25-7.

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Facts to fight over

The Guardian, 6 February 2001, education supplement, p.14.

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Witness: The Irving Trial, January 2000

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 54-55.

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Nynazister utgör inget hot

Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (Sweden), 16 October 2000, p. 6.

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Kriget, Thatcher och tyskhatet

Moderna Tider, 120 (Oct. 2000), pp. 36-41.

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Professorn som stoppade David Irving

Interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 22 July 2000, p. 8.

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History after Irving

Interview by Michael Kustow in Red Pepper, June 2000, pp. 27-9.

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In defence of history

Interview in Varsity, 5 May 2000, p. 3.

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History today: round-table dialogue

with Jim Sharpe, Peter Jones, Mike Savage, Eileen Yeo , David Parker and Kevin Morgan, Socialist History, 14 (1999), pp. 1-39.

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Der Strom der Zeit läuft seinen Weg doch. Otto von Bismarck und die europäischen Parallelen seiner Politik

, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Beilage 'Bilder und Zeiten’, 25 July, 1998, p. iii.

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Die Verteidigung der Geschichte. Ein Gespräch zwischen Richard Evans, Eric Hobsbawm und Albert Müller

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Vol. 9, No. 1 (April, 1998), pp. 108-123.

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In Defence of History

World Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (October, 1997), pp. 6-8.

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Watch on the Rhine?

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 November 1997, p. 16.

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The Future of History

Prospect, October 1997, pp. 30-33.

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Heart of the Matter

The Financial Times, 15 September 1997.

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Truth lost in vain views

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 September, 1997, p. 18.

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Report ignores part-timers

Article on the Dearing Report, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 August, 1997, p. 12.

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An Autumn of German Romanticism

History Today, Vol. 44 (1994), pp. 9-12.

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Speaking Volumes

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 February 1994.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II and German History

History Review, No. 10 (September, 1991), pp. 36-38, and 11 December, 1991), pp. 36-39. Reprinted in Gilbert Pleuger (ed.), Essays on German History 1862-1939 (Bedford, 1996), pp. 11-23.

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Germany’s Morning After

Marxism Today, June, 1991, pp. 20-23

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‘German Unification and the New Revisionism

Dimensions, Vol. 6, No.1 (March, 1991), pp. 10-14.

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Berlin Unlimited

Marxism Today, September 1990, p. 9.

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Myth of the German psyche

The Guardian, 19 July, 1990, p. 19.

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‘A mockery of history?

The Sunday Correspondent, 6 May 1990, p. 18.

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Promised Land?

Marxism Today, April 1990, pp. 18-21; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Er was geen Sovjet-Treblinka

NRC – Handelsblad, 31 March, 1990, Zaterdays Bijvoegal: Boeken, p.1

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One nation, two states

London Review of Books, Vol.11, No. 24, 21 December, 1989, pp. 5-6.

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In Hitler’s Shadow: Rewriting History

Present Tense, July-August, 1989, pp. 30-38.

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Angst in den Zeiten der Cholera

Kursbuch 94 (Berlin, 1988), pp. 89-106

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The Militant Suffragettes

Hard Times: Zeitschrift der Neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 20 (June, 1982), pp. 6-9.

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British History: Marxist Interpretations

Hard Times - Info der neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 14/15 (October, 1980), pp. 24-9.

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Postmodernism and History

on www.butterfliesandwheels.com, exposing fashionable nonsense, October 2002.

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G. R. Elton’s The Practice of History

Article (c. 2,000 words) on website of Blackwell Publishers, November 2001.

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E. H. Carr’s What is History?

Article (c. 2,000 words) on website of Palgrave Publishers, November 2001.

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Report on the M.A. Thesis of Joel Hayward.

Commissioned by the New Zealand Council of Jews for presentation to the Commission of Enquiry established by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. May 2000. Typescript. 20,000 words.

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David Irving, Hitler, and Holocaust Denial

Expert Witness Report presented to the High Court, London, in the case of Irving versus Penguin Books and Lipstadt, January 2000. Typescript, 740 pages (250,000 words), also available on various websites, e.g. www.holocausdenialontrial.com.

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‘Postmodernism and History’.

Guest Essay, Encarta Internet Encyclopedia, July 2000

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British History: the View from the Left

Hard Times: Info der Neuen Deutsch-Britiischen Gesellschaft, 11, (October, 1979) pp. 5-10.

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‘Reply to Critics’, on Institute of Historical Research website,

‘Reviews in History’, November 1999 (30,000 words).

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The March of the Women

Participation in five BBC World Service programmes in 1980

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