The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the twenty-first century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich. Long-discredited conspiracy theories have taken on a new lease of life, given credence by claims of freshly discovered evidence and novel angles of investigation.
Lectures
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The Spanish Civil War 1936-39
Rapid polarization of politics in early-to-mid 1930s
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The Nature of the Third Reich
How the Third Reich was Ruled
Publications
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Historical Note to the 150th anniversary edition
in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (Penguin Books, November 2024), pp. xxv-xxix.
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Preface to the 150th anniversary edition
in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (Penguin Books, November 2024), pp. xix-xxiv.
Careers
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1969 Stanhope Historical Essay Prize, University of Oxford
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The Historical Society Of Israel
Interview with Prof. Sir Richard Evan, Thursday, April 25, 2013