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There are details of my books currently in print. And there are copies of articles and reviews and links to other relevant websites. There is a new section with lecture notes and texts as well as interviews.

My latest book is “Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich”, published in hardback by Penguin Books in the UK on the 13th August 2024 and the Penguin Press in the USA and in paperback on the 4th September 2025

This website is designed for anybody to use who wants to find out more about my work as a historian. I hope you find it useful and if you are interested in viewing my Gresham Lectures they can be found here.

Books In Print

Hitler’s People

The Faces of the Third Reich

The Hitler Conspiracies

The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Rituals of Retribution

The Third Reich in History and Memory

In this fascinating and enlightening collection of...

Altered Pasts

A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo...

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914

This book is a history of Europe from...

The Third Reich in Power

The Third Reich in Power unfolds the terrible

The Third Reich at War

How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

The Coming of the Third Reich

In 1900 Germany was generally viewed as one...

Telling Lies About Hitler

In April 2000 a High Court judge branded the...

Tales from the German Underworld

Through the means of four powerful...

In Defence of History

Under the onslaught of postmodernist theory...

Cosmopolitan Islanders

British Historians and the European Continent

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910

October 1987

Information Directory

Career

1969 Stanhope Historical Essay Prize, University of Oxford

The Historical Society Of Israel

Interview with Prof. Sir Richard Evan, Thursday, April 25, 2013

Interview in ‘Historians’

Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster...

Fifty Key Thinkers on History

An essential guide to the most influential historians

Undergraduate Teaching

At Stirling University I taught and organised a

Graduate Teaching

I had the privilege of devising and teaching a

Public Activities

Since its inception I have been a member of the

Publications

Hitler’s People

The Faces of the Third Reich

The Hitler Conspiracies

The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Rituals of Retribution

The Third Reich in History and Memo...

In this fascinating and enlightening collection of...

Altered Pasts

A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo...

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1...

This book is a history of Europe from...

Lectures

The Spanish Civil War 1936-39

Rapid polarization of politics in early-to-mid 1930s

The Nature of the Third Reich

How the Third Reich was Ruled

Nazi Foreign Policy

Nazi Foreign Policy Aims.

Imperial Germany 1890-1914

Post-1918 nostalgia; Nazi contempt; return of nostalgia after 1945.

Why Did Germany Lose the Second World War?

What Went Wrong?

Corruption and Plunder in the Third Reich

Third Reich not just a dictatorship, also a Kleptocracy.

Chamberlain and Appeasement: the Differing Views of Historians

Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

Journalism

Eric Hobsbawm in the ‘London Review’

9 April 2021

Sir Richard J. Evans on Eric Hobsbawm | PoliticsBooksToday

2021

How did the Nazi party rise to power in Germany in 1933? And what were Hitler’s motivations?

Trump wants a military parade “just like France’s.” It’s likely to look more like China’s.

Feb 12, 2018, 4:20 PM GMT

Prof. Richard J. Evans: Mord verjährt nicht. Anklage gegen KZ-Wächter nach mehr als 70 Jahren

Januar 27, 2018

Expert Weighs in on How Much America Is Like the Third Reich

March 25th 2017

Interview about the film “Denial”

5 February 2017

Conspiracy Theories: A Threat to...

16/06/2016

This lecture looks at recent and current research to come up with some surprising answers. Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere nowadays, encouraged by the internet, and perhaps also by postmodern scepticism. But are they really more common than they … Continue reading →

Lessons from the Past, Warnings ...

04/09/2013

The concluding lecture on The Great Plagues takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses how reactions to the epidemic mirrored those found in the social and cultural perception of earlier epidemics. As in earlier epidemics, sufferers have been ostracized, persecuted … Continue reading →

The Great Unwashed

26/02/2013

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was caused by a bacterium hosted by the human body louse, and has thus always been associated with dirty and overcrowded conditions and spread above all by armies marching across … Continue reading →

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

29/01/2013

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century, was widely seen as Asia’s revenge on Europe for the extension of European empires in the East. During the nineteenth century governments reacted first by trying to establish quarantines, … Continue reading →

The White Plague

27/11/2012

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all diseases the most widely represented in literature, opera and drama. The disease has been present in humans since prehistory and hence has a particularly long pedigree of representation in … Continue reading →

The Great Pox

30/10/2012

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been imported into Europe from the Americas in the late fifteenth century as part of the ‘Columban exchange’, in which other diseases, notably smallpox, travelled in the other direction, with … Continue reading →

The Black Death

15/09/2012

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in the sixth century, killing an estimated 25 million people in the Byzantine Empire and spreading further west. Its most devastating outbreak was in mid-fourteenth-century Europe, when it destroyed perhaps … Continue reading →

Decolonization: The End of Empir...

27/03/2012

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918, continued to expand after the First World War, reaching their greatest extent in the early 1940s. The imperial ambitions of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany created new empires that turned … Continue reading →

Exploitation and Resistance

28/02/2012

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized. In Europe, ideologies of imperialism emerged, increasingly mingled with racism. These had a material effect on the attitudes of political elites that helped push Europe towards … Continue reading →

From Conquest to Control

24/01/2012

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases existed merely on paper. This lecture asks how and why European powers embarked on this trajectory. Often, occupation … Continue reading →

The Scramble for Africa

22/11/2011

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial acquisitions. Between this point and the outbreak of the First World War, more colonial territory was acquired by European states than in the previous three-quarters of a century. … Continue reading →

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