Journalism
We might be leaving the EU but we’re very much part of Europe
London Evening Standard, 25 August 2016, p. 16.
Continue readingHitler as Military Leader
Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, Summer 2016, pp. 10-16.
Continue reading‘L’impérialisme écologique n’explique pas la Shoah’
Le Monde, global edition online, 17 October 2015.
Continue readingFive Best: Richard J. Evans on the Third Reich Remembered
Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2015
Continue readingMy people will be passengers, not customers
King for a Day’ series, The Guardian, 14 February 2015, p. 33.
Continue readingMichael Gove: “bogeyman” or “the greatest education secretary ever”?
The Guardian, 22 July 2014, Education Section.
Continue readingInterview by Takeshi Minami on World War I commemoration in UK
JiJi Press News Agency, Tokyo, 24 June 2014.
Continue readingHigher Calling. By the ghost of Sir Thomas Gresham – it’s a London institution
Times Higher Education, 12-18 June 2014, pp. 41-43.
Continue readingSino-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
Continue readingInterview 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).
Continue readingTen-point guide to dodging publishing pitfalls
Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2014
Continue readingWill the Next World War Start in the Middle East
The New Republic, 25 January 2014 (online interview)
Continue readingWWI coin “inappropriate” and Gove is a “donkey
says Cambridge academic’, Varsity, 24 January 2014
Continue readingBefore the war. Old world decline, rogue empires, killing for God – what are the lessons of 1914 for today
New Statesman, 17-23 January 2014, pp. 22-29
Continue readingMichael Gove Shows His Ignorance of History – Again
The Guardian Review, 6 January 2014, inside back page.
Continue readingBooks of 2013
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 48/2013 (19 December 2013), p. 51
Continue readingLetter in London Review of Books
35/24 (19 December 2013), p. 4 (see response two issues later)
Continue readingInterview on Der Landser
BBC History Magazine (History Extra website), 18 September 2013
Continue readingMyth-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
Continue readingSyphilis – the great scourge
Microbiology Today , Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 2013), pp. 62-65
Continue readingThe rote sets in. Michael Gove’s new history curriculum
The New Statesman, 15-21 March 2012, pp. 60-61.
Continue readingOn Her Majesty’s scholarly service
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7-13 February 2013, pp. 40-43
Continue readingThe folly of putting Little England at the heart of history
Financial Times, 8 February 2013, p. 11.
Continue readingThe Vôlkischer Beobachter
Letter to the editor, Times Literary Supplement, 18 January 2013, p. 6
Continue readingRoyal Succession: Why a New Law Won’t Change Much
The Guardian online, 5 December 2012.
Continue readingA Right Royal Rumpus
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 October 2012, p. 24 (correspondence and final reply in following four issues).
Continue readingWhy did the Nazis come to power?
New Perspectives on Modern History 18/1 (Sept 2012), 6-9
Continue readingInterview on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Chris Mann’s Drivetime Book Review
4 pm, 13 October 2016
Continue readingOn The Third Reich in History and Memory
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drive-Time with Chris Mann, May 2016.
Continue reading‘History and Legacy of War’ Dialogue, CCTV (Beijing), 19th April 2014
http://english.cntv.cn/2014/04/20/VIDE1397946961959184.shtml
Continue readingDiscussion of Mr Gove on World War I commemoration
BBC-1 tv Newsnight, 8 January 2014
Continue readingDiscussion of Mr Gove on World War I commemoration
BBC Radio 4 The World at One and Channel 4 television news, 3 January 2014.
Continue readingThe Nazi Underworld
National Geographic tv channel, two programmes, September/October 2013
Continue readingThe Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, 8-9pm
Wednesday 27 March 2013, on the national history curriculum
Continue readingSunday Politics with Andrew Neill and David Starkey
‘head to head’ on the national history curriculum, Sunday 3 March 2013, 11 a.m., BBC1 television.
Continue readingMistrust of medical science is not merely the product of ignorance
Open Democracy website, 28 October 2015.
Continue readingRead and Vote: Is 2014, Like 1914, a Prelude to World War?
Toronto Globe and Mail website, 25 June 2014.
Continue readingInterview 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/
Continue readingBBC website article and interview on conspiracies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24650841
Continue readingWilliam Carr
Schleswig-Holstein questions and Labour certainties', The Guardian, 22 June 1991.
Continue readingFrancis Carsten
'New Light on the Reich'. Obituary of Francis Carsten. The Guardian, 7 July 1998.
Continue readingToday, BBC radio 4
5 August 2011, discussion on whether there is ‘more news’ nowadays
Continue readingThe Valkyrie Legacy
History Channel documentary and Bonus Feature on the Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie
Continue readingGefallen für Führer und Vaerland
Interview with Alexander Kluge, SAT 1 television, 11 July 2010, 00.30 hrs
Continue readingInterviews 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
Continue readingFour German radio interviews on cholera in Hamburg 1892
NDR and Radio 107, various programmes, December, 1990
Continue reading(The Andy O’Mahoney Show) on In Hitler’s Shadow (April, 1990)
RTE (Dublin); half-hour radio programme
Continue readingMr 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.
Continue readingBeware of easy historical parallels – Merkel is no Brüning
New Statesman, 13 February 2012, p. 20.
Continue reading1066 and all that
New Statesman, 23 January 2012, pp, 42-5, and letter in 30 Jan issue p. 6.
Continue readingCritical path: how did a book reviewer and an author end up in court?
Times Higher Education Supplement, 4-10 August 2011, pp. 26-27.
Continue readingThe Third Reich at War
An Interview with Richard J. Evans’, History News Network 13 April 2011.
Continue readingThe 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).
Continue readingTainted money?
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 March 2011, pp. 41-44; see also correspondence in THES 14 April 2011, p. 38.
Continue readingGlaubt der Diktator an seinen Mythos, sind seine Tage gezählt
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 January 2011, ‘International’ , p. 5.
Continue readingForeword, Wolfson College Magazine 34
Wolfson College Magazine 34 (2009-2010), p. 5.
Continue readingSussex cuts threaten a proud history of research-led excellence
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10-16 June 2010, pp.31-2
Continue readingRichard Evans discusses Puck of Pook’s Hill
CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine 59 (Lent 2010), p. 53.
Continue readingNazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews: An Exchange
The New York Review of Books Vol. LVII, No. 2 (February 2010), p. 44.
Continue readingWhat are you reading
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17-23 September 2009, p. 47.
Continue readingTruth, in Mick Gordon and Chriis Wilkinson (eds.)
Conversations on Truth (Continuum Books, London, July 2009), 61-73.
Continue readingVan euthanasia tot Holocaust
interview in Reformatorisch Dagbla, 3 June 2008, p. 17.
Continue readingThe Nazi Seizure of Power
by William Sheridan Allen, Times Higher Education Supplement, 23-29 April, 2009, p.. 37
Continue reading‘Sein wahres Gesicht. Vor 65 Jahren tat der Hitler-Attentäter Graf von Stauffenberg das Richtige. Aber es ist falsch, den strikten Anti-Demokraten heute zum Superhelden zu verklären. Anmerkungen zum Start des Films “Operation Walküre”
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin 4 (23 January 2009), pp. 8-10; English version in International Searchlight no. 405, March 2009, pp. 24-26.
Continue readingAs 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.
Continue readingWriting the history of Nazi Germany
BBC History Magazine Vol. 9,) 10 (October 2008), pp. 60-61.
Continue readingOn 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.
Continue readingRichard Evans: “Hitler-Parodien? Wenn’s lustig ist
Interview in Die Welt, 16 January 2007, page 27.
Continue readingSprechen 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.
Continue readingIs it worth studying the history of the nation state any longer?
The Guardian, Saturday 30 December 2006, p. 28.
Continue readingThe Death of Old Europe
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 September 2005, p. 18
Continue readingInterview in Rita Kuczynski (ed.)
Ostdeutschland war nie etwas Natürliches (Berlin, 2005), 47-57
Continue readingZwei deutsche Diktaturen im 20. Jahrhundert? Essay
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1-2/2005, 3 Jan 2005, 3-9.
Continue readingI like a cruise with strings attached
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 September 2004, p. 24.
Continue readingResponse
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).
Continue readingToday’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).
Continue readingHistoriker sind Hofnarren
Interview in die tageszeitung (Berlin) 8 December 2003), p. 17.
Continue readingOur 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.
Continue readingBlast from the past
Article on the Iraq war, The Guardian G2 section, 19 February 2003, p. 4.
Continue readingJust how intelligent?
Thee official history of MI5, The Guardian, 18 February 2001, education section, p. 15.
Continue readingTime 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.
Continue readingTelling 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).
Continue readingContribution to IPR Discussion
Cambridge University Reporter Vol. 133/6, No. 5901 (30 Oct. 2002), pp. 233-4.
Continue readingWhy I believe Cambridge’s IPR proposals threaten academic freedom
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November 2002, p. 16.
Continue readingThe Führer, the Jackal, the Professor and his Publishers – The Sequel
Private Eye, 12-25 July 2002, p. 26 (also letter in following issue).
Continue readingArticle on the Irving Case
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15.
Continue readingMullahs and kulaks – he would bin them all
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 November 2001
Continue readingRechts-Weg ausgeschlossen. David Irving ist am Ende, das Verleumdungsgesetz bleibt
Frankfurter Rundschau, 31 July 2001.
Continue readingTodesstrafe als politisches Symbol
die tageszeitung (Berlin), 9-10 July 2001, p. 6.
Continue readingPursuit of truth
Interview of expert witnesses by Joe Plomin, The Guardian, education supplement, 24 April 2001, pp. 10-11.
Continue readingIs this the past as we know it?
The Independent, 12 March 2001, Monday review p. 5.
Continue readingWitness: The Irving Trial, January 2000
BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 54-55.
Continue readingNynazister utgör inget hot
Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (Sweden), 16 October 2000, p. 6.
Continue readingBlitzkrieg und Hakenkreuz. Vom Irving-Prozess zur Holocaust-Ausstellung. Der Nationalsozialismus in britischer Perspektive
Frankfurter Rundschau, 16 September 2000, p. 21.
Continue readingProfessorn som stoppade David Irving
Interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 22 July 2000, p. 8.
Continue readingHistory after Irving
Interview by Michael Kustow in Red Pepper, June 2000, pp. 27-9.
Continue readingHistory 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.
Continue readingDer 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.
Continue readingDie 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.
Continue readingTruth lost in vain views
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 September, 1997, p. 18.
Continue readingReport ignores part-timers
Article on the Dearing Report, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 August, 1997, p. 12.
Continue readingKaiser 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.
Continue reading‘German Unification and the New Revisionism
Dimensions, Vol. 6, No.1 (March, 1991), pp. 10-14.
Continue readingPromised Land?
Marxism Today, April 1990, pp. 18-21; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.
Continue readingEr was geen Sovjet-Treblinka
NRC – Handelsblad, 31 March, 1990, Zaterdays Bijvoegal: Boeken, p.1
Continue readingOne nation, two states
London Review of Books, Vol.11, No. 24, 21 December, 1989, pp. 5-6.
Continue readingThe Militant Suffragettes
Hard Times: Zeitschrift der Neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 20 (June, 1982), pp. 6-9.
Continue readingBritish History: Marxist Interpretations
Hard Times - Info der neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 14/15 (October, 1980), pp. 24-9.
Continue readingKvennsaga – mannkynssaga. Raett vid breska sagnfraedinginn Richard J Evans, sem fengist hefur vid rannsoknir à sögu kvennahreyfinga’
Thjodviljinn (Icelandic daily newspaper), 2 September, 1980, p. 7.
Continue readingPostmodernism and History
on www.butterfliesandwheels.com, exposing fashionable nonsense, October 2002.
Continue readingG. R. Elton’s The Practice of History
Article (c. 2,000 words) on website of Blackwell Publishers, November 2001.
Continue readingE. H. Carr’s What is History?
Article (c. 2,000 words) on website of Palgrave Publishers, November 2001.
Continue readingReport 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.
Continue readingDavid 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.
Continue readingBritish History: the View from the Left
Hard Times: Info der Neuen Deutsch-Britiischen Gesellschaft, 11, (October, 1979) pp. 5-10.
Continue reading‘Reply to Critics’, on Institute of Historical Research website,
‘Reviews in History’, November 1999 (30,000 words).
Continue reading