All Journalism and Interviews

  • (1) ‘British History: the View from the Left’, Hard Times: Info der Neuen Deutsch-Britiischen Gesellschaft, 11, (October, 1979) pp. 5-10.
  • (2) ‘Kvennsaga – 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.
  • (3) ‘British History: Marxist Interpretations’, Hard Times – Info der neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 14/15 (October, 1980), pp. 24-9.
  • (4) ‘The Militant Suffragettes’, Hard Times: Zeitschrift der Neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 20 (June, 1982), pp. 6-9.
  • (5) ‘Angst in den Zeiten der Cholera’, Kursbuch 94 (Berlin, 1988), pp. 89-106.
  • (6) ‘In Hitler’s Shadow: Rewriting History’, Present Tense, July-August, 1989, pp. 30-38.
  • (7) ‘One nation, two states’, London Review of Books,(25) ‘
  • (8) ‘Germany’s Future Turns on Confronting the Past’, Newsday, 25 March, 1990, pp. 4-5.
  • (9) ‘Er was geen Sovjet-Treblinka’, NRC – Handelsblad, 31 March, 1990, Zaterdays Bijvoegal: Boeken, p.1.
  • (10) ‘Promised Land?’, Marxism Today, April 1990, pp. 18-21; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.
  • (11) ‘A mockery of history?’, The Sunday Correspondent, 6 May 1990, p. 18.
  • (12) ‘Myth of the German psyche’, The Guardian, 19 July, 1990, p. 19.
  • (13) ‘Berlin Unlimited’, Marxism Today, September 1990, p. 9.
  • (14) ‘German Unification and the New Revisionism’, Dimensions, Vol. 6, No.1 (March, 1991), pp. 10-14.
  • (15) ‘Germany’s Morning After’, Marxism Today, June, 1991, pp. 20-23.
  • (16) ‘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
  • (17) ‘Speaking Volumes’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 February 1994.
  • (18) ‘An Autumn of German Romanticism’, History Today, Vol. 44 (1994), pp. 9-12
  • (19) ‘Victorious Gesture. Fifty years after the Nuremberg Trials, with the issue of war crimes as strong as ever, Richard Evans explains how the trials themselves are still a subject of some controversy.’ The Jewish Chronicle, 24 November, 1995, p. 31.
  • (20) ‘Report ignores part-timers’. Article on the Dearing Report, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 August, 1997, p. 12.
  • (21) ‘Truth lost in vain views’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 September, 1997, p. 18.
  • (22) ‘Heart of the Matter’, The Financial Times, 15 September 1997.
  • (23) ‘The Future of History’, Prospect, October 1997, pp. 30-33.
  • (24) ‘Watch on the Rhine?’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 November 1997, p. 16.
  • (25) ‘In Defence of History’, World Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (October, 1997), pp. 6-8.
  • (26) ‘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.
  • (27) ‘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.
  • (28) ‘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.
  • (29) ‘In defence of history’, Interview in Varsity, 5 May 2000, p. 3.
  • (30) ‘History after Irving’, Interview by Michael Kustow in Red Pepper, June 2000, pp. 27-9.
  • (31) ‘Professorn som stoppade David Irving’, Interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 22 July 2000, p. 8.
  • (32) ‘Blitzkrieg und Hakenkreuz. Vom Irving-Prozess zur Holocaust-Ausstellung. Der Nationalsozialismus in britischer Perspektive’, Frankfurter Rundschau, 16 September 2000, p. 21.
  • (33) ‘Kriget, Thatcher och tyskhatet’, Moderna Tider, 120 (Oct. 2000), pp. 36-41.
  • (34) ‘Nynazister utgör inget hot’, Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (Sweden), 16 October 2000, p. 6.
  • (35) ‘Witness: The Irving Trial, January 2000’, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 54-55.
  • (36) ‘Facts to fight over’, The Guardian, 6 February 2001, education supplement, p.14.
  • (37) ‘How history became popular again’, New Statesman, 12 February 2001. Pp. 25-7.
  • (38) ‘Is this the past as we know it?’, The Independent, 12 March 2001, Monday review p. 5.
  • (39) ‘Pursuit of truth’. Interview of expert witnesses by Joe Plomin, The Guardian, education supplement, 24 April 2001, pp. 10-11.
  • (40) ‘In Defence of Common Sense’, Cherwell, 27 April 2001, p. 6.
  • (41) ‘Victory for history’. Interview by Jon Boone, Cherwell, 4 May 2001, p. 9.
  • (42) ‘Todesstrafe als politisches Symbol’, die tageszeitung (Berlin), 9-10 July 2001, p. 6.
  • (43) ‘An interest stirred’, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8 (August, 2001), p. 37.
  • (44) ‘Rechts-Weg ausgeschlossen. David Irving ist am Ende, das Verleumdungsgesetz bleibt’, Frankfurter Rundschau, 31 July 2001.
  • (45) ‘Geschichtsfälschung und Wahrheit’, Göttinger Tageblatt, 5 November 2001.
  • (46) ‘History on Trial’, The Caian, November 2001, pp. 179-183.
  • (47) ‘Mullahs and kulaks – he would bin them all’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 November 2001
  • (48) ‘G. R, Elton and the Practice of History’, History Today, December 2001, p. 3
  • (49) Article on the Irving Case, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15.
  • (50) ‘The Führer, the Jackal, the Professor and his Publishers – The Sequel’, Private Eye, 12-25 July 2002, p. 26 (also letter in following issue).
  • (51) ‘Writ-Shy Decision’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 July 2002, p. 13.
  • (52) ‘David Irving: The Sequel’, The New Statesman, 2 September 2002, p. 23.
  • (53) ‘Why I believe Cambridge’s IPR proposals threaten academic freedom’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November 2002, p. 16.
  • (54) Contribution to IPR Discussion, Cambridge University Reporter Vol. 133/6, No. 5901 (30 Oct. 2002), pp. 233-4.
  • (55) ‘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).
  • (56) ‘Time to make Nazis history, or is there life in Hitler yet?’. Joint interview with Sir Ian Kershaw in The Times The Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 January 2003, pp. 24-25.
  • (57) ‘Just how intelligent?’ The official history of MI5’, The Guardian, 18 February 2001, education section, p. 15.
  • (58) ‘Blast from the past’. Article on the Iraq war, The Guardian G2 section, 19 February 2003, p. 4.
  • (59) ‘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.
  • (60) Summer books selection, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 4 (2003) No. 7 (July), 68.
  • (61) Article on Hayward case, The Press (Christchurch), 3 September 2003.
  • (62) ‘Historiker sind Hofnarren’. Interview in die tageszeitung (Berlin) 8 December 2003), p. 17.
  • (63) ‘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).
  • (64) ’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).
  • (64) ‘I like a cruise with strings attached’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 September 2004, p. 24.
  • (65) ‘The Coming of the Third Reich’, History Review, 50 (Dec. 2004), 12-17.
  • (66) ‘Zwei deutsche Diktaturen im 20. Jahrhundert? Essay’, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1-2/2005, 3 Jan 2005, 3-9.
  • (67) Interview in Rita Kuczynski (ed.), Ostdeutschland war nie etwas Natürliches (Berlin, 2005), 47-57
  • (68) ‘Hitler’s Dictatorship’, History Review, 51 (March 2005), 20-25.
  • (69) ‘The Death of Old Europe’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 September 2005, p. 18.
  • (70) ‘It broadens the mind’, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 8 (August 2006), 27.
  • (71) ‘Is it worth studying the history of the nation state any longer?’, The Guardian, Saturday 30 December 2006, p. 28.
  • (72) ‘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.
  • (73) ‘Richard Evans: “Hitler-Parodien? Wenn’s lustig ist.” Interview in Die Welt, 16 January 2007, page 27.
  • (74) ‘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.
  • (75) Letter to New York Review of Books, 14 February 2008.
  • (76) ‘Writing the history of Nazi Germany’, BBC History Magazine Vol. 9, N). 10 (October 2008), pp. 60-61.
  • (77) ‘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.
  • (78) ‘Perverting the course of science’, The Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2008, p. 29.
  • (79) ‘Holocaust denial should not be a crime’, Varsity, 16 January 2009, p. 9.
  • (80) ‘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.
  • (81) ‘The Nazi Seizure of Power’, by William Sheridan Allen, Times Higher Education Supplement, 23-29 April, 2009, p. 37
  • (82) ‘Van euthanasia tot Holocaust’, interview in Reformatorisch Dagblad, 3 June 2008, p. 17.
  • (83) ‘The history makers’, The Guardian 2, 26 May 2009, pp. 10-11.
  • (84) ‘Truth’, in Mick Gordon and Chris Wilkinson (eds.), Conversations on Truth (Continuum Books, London, July 2009), pp. 61-73
  • (85) Interview in El Mundo on the Second World War, early September 2009.
  • (86) ‘Stalingrad’. Special Supplement to The Guardian, 8 September 2009, pp. 5-11.
  • (87) ‘What are you reading”’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17-23 September 2009, p. 47.
  • (88) ‘Waaeheid en herinnering’, Nexus 53 (2009), pp. 139-52.
  • (89) ‘Peaceful war?’ BBC History Magazine Vol. 11 (2010), No. 2, pp. 52-56.
  • (90) ‘Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews: An Exchange’, The New York Review of Books Vol. LVII, No. 2 (February 2010), p. 44.
  • (91) ‘Richard Evans discusses Puck of Pook’s Hill’, CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine 59 (Lent 2010), p. 53.
  • (92) ‘Sussex cuts threaten a proud history of research-led excellence’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10-16 June 2010, pp. 31-2
  • (93) ‘Summer reading’, CAM 60 (Easter 2010), p. 43.
  • (94) ‘Foreword’, Wolfson College Magazine 34 (2009-2010), p. 5.
  • (95) Christmas Books recommendation TLS Dec 2010
  • (96) Response to critics, London Review of Books, 2 December 2010, p. 4.
  • (97) Christmas Books recommendation New Statesman Dec 2010
  • (98) ‘Glaubt der Diktator an seinen Mythos, sind seine Tage gezählt’, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 January 2011, ‘International’ , p. 5.
  • (99) ‘Panel Games’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 February 2011, p. 44.
  • (100) ‘Tainted money?’ The Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 March 2011, pp. 41-44; see also correspondence in THES 14 April 2011, p. 38.
  • (101) ‘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 following issues).
  • (102) ‘The Third Reich at War: An Interview with Richard J. Evans’, History News Network 13 April 2011.
  • (103) ‘Art in the Time of War’, The National Interest 113 (May/June, 2011), 16-26.
  • (104) ‘Remembrance of Things Past’, Men’s Style, May 2011, 123-9 (interview quote)
  • (105) ‘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.
  • (106) ‘Learn for the right reasons’, The Guardian, 27 August 2011, p. 43.
  • (107) ‘An Exchange: Toepfer and the Holocaust’, Standpoint 35, November 2011, pp. 16-17.
  • (108) ‘The shackles of the past’, New Statesman 21 November 2011, pp. 22-25.
  • (109) ‘A year in books’, New Statesman, 21 November 2011, p. 50.
  • (110) ‘The Historian’s Historians’, History Today, 61/12, December 2011, pp. 67-8.
  • (111) ‘Books of the Year’, The Times Literary Supplement 2 December 2011, p. 10
  • (112) ‘1066 and all that’, New Statesman, 23 January 2012, pp, 42-5, and letter in 30 Jan issue p. 6.
  • (113) ‘Beware of easy historical parallels – Merkel is no Brüning’, New Statesman, 13 February 2012, p. 20.
  • (114) ‘Is history history?’ The Guardian, 18 May 2012, p. 26.
  • (115) ‘A New Threat for a New Era’, New Statesman 2 July 2012, pp. 29-33.
  • (116) ‘Why did the Nazis come to power?’ New Perspectives on Modern History 18/1 (Sept 2012), 6-9
  • (117) ‘A Right Royal Rumpus’. The Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 October 2012, p. 24 (correspondence and final reply in following four issues).
  • (118) ‘Books of the Year’, New Statesman 29 November 2012.
  • (119) ‘Royal Succession: Why a New Law Won’t Change Much’, The Guardian online, 5 December 2012.

     

  • (120) Letter to The Times on used of unmanned drones to bomb civilians in Afghanistan, 7 December 2012.

     

  • (121) ‘Ein Volk vor dem Gericht der Geschichte’, Geo-Epoche Nr. 58, pp. 150-55 [interview]

     

  • (122) ‘The Vôlkischer Beobachter”, Letter to the editor, Times Literary Supplement, 18 January 2013, p. 6.

     

  • (123) ‘Nevana ne skrajna desnica’, Dnevnik (Slovenia) 29 Jan 2013, p. 4 (interview).

     

  • (124) ‘The folly of putting Little England at the heart of history’, Financial Times, 8 February 2013, p. 11.

     

  • (125) ‘On Her Majesty’s scholarly service’. The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7-13 February 2013, pp. 40-43

     

  • (126) Interview with Greek newspaper To Vima, 10 Feb 2013, pp. 6-7.

     

  • (127) Letter in The Guardian , 19 February 2013.

     

  • (128) Letter to The Times, 1 March 2013, ‘Beware meddling with the history curriculum’.

     

  • (129) ‘The rote sets in. Michael Gove’s new history curriculum’. The New Statesman, 15-21 March 2012, pp. 60-61.

     

  • (130) ‘The Mr Men game’. The New Statesman 17-23 May 2013, p. 29.

     

  • (131) ‘Syphilis – the great scourge’, Microbiology Today , Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 2013), pp. 62-65.

     

  • (132), ‘Angleterre: l’île ou le monde?’, Le débat, 175 (mai-août 2013), pp. 163-71

     

  • (133) ‘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.

     

  • (134) Interview on commemoration of World War I, Cambridge News, 8 August 2013.

     

  • (135) Interview on Der Landser, BBC History Magazine (History Extra website), 18 September 2013.

     

  • (136) ‘Der Angriff’, Merian: Dresden (Hamburg, December 2013), pp. 50-51.

     

  • (137) Letter in London Review of Books, 35/24 (19 December 2013), p. 4 (see response two issues later).

     

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

     

  • (138) ‘Michael Gove Shows His Ignorance of History – Again’, The Guardian Review, 6 January 2014, inside back page.

     

  • (139) Letter on Foreign Office concealment of documents, The Guardian, 23 January 2014.

     

  • (140) ‘Before 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.

     

     

  • (141) ‘WWI coin “inappropriate” and Gove is a “donkey”, says Cambridge academic’, Varsity, 24 January 2014

     

  • (142) ‘Will the Next World War Start in the Middle East?’ The New Republic, 25 January 2014 (online interview)

     

  • (143) ‘How to remember a war’, The Indian Express, 3 February 2014, p. 10.

     

  • (144) ‘La perception britannique de la Grande Guerre est concentrée sur l’expérience nationale’, Le Monde, 26 Feb. 2014.

     

  • (144) ‘The Past That Never Was’, BBC History Magazine, March 2014, pp. 36-39.

     

  • (145) ‘Ten-point guide to dodging publishing pitfalls’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2014.

     

  • (146) ‘Enough of the armchair generals’, The Guardian Saturday Review, 15 March 2014.

     

  • (147) ‘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).

     

  • (148) ‘Sino-US differences will not lead to global war, says historian: 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)
  • (149) Interview with Greek newspaper To Vima, 6 May 2014
  • (150) Interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini, 6 May 2014
  • (151) ‘Higher Calling. By the ghost of Sir Thomas Gresham – it’s a London institution’, Times Higher Education, 12-18 June 2014, pp. 41-43.
  • (152) Interview by Takeshi Minami on World War I commemoration in UK, JiJi Press News Agency, Tokyo, 24 June 2014.
  • (153) ‘Michael Gove: “bogeyman” or “the greatest education secretary ever”?’ The Guardian, 22 July 2014, Education Section.
  • (154) ‘The Front Lines’, The Guardian, 26 July 2014, Review Section, p. 4.
  • (155) Interview with Prof. Dr. Richard J. Evans, Kilavuz 51 (Autumn 2014).
  • (156) ‘Die Heimsuching’, Die Zeit: Hamburg, 17 November 2014, p. 1.
  • (157) ‘The darkest memory’, The Guardian, review section, 7 February 2015, pp. 2-4.
  • (158) ‘My people will be passengers, not customers’, ‘King for a Day’ series, The Guardian, 14 February 2015, p. 33.
  • (159) ‘Museum at War’, The Times, 27 February 2015, p. 29.

     

  • (160) ‘Think Again’, World War II, May/June 2015, pp. 66-73.

     

  • (161) ‘Five Best: Richard J. Evans on the Third Reich Remembered’. Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2015.

     

  • (162) ‘End the secrecy now’, The Sun, 20 July 2015, p. 7.

     

  • (163) ‘L’impérialisme écologique n’explique pas la Shoah’, Le Monde, global edition online, 17 October 2015.

     

  • (164) ‘Hitler as Military Leader’, Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, Summer 2016, pp. 10-16.

     

  • (165) ‘Why is History still written by men?’ The Guardian Review, 6 February 2016, p. 3.

     

  • (166) ‘We might be leaving the EU but we’re very much part of Europe’, London Evening Standard, 25 August 2016, p. 16.

     

  • (167) ‘Europe’s Century of Peace and Progress’, BBC History Magazine, October 2016, pp. 51-56

     

  • (168) ‘Hundre års enighet’, Morgenbladet, 18-24 November 2016, pp. 54-5.

     

  • (169) ‘Pursuing Power in Europe, 1815-1914’. Interview by Ruth Harris, British Academy Review Number 29 (January, 2017), pp. 16-20.

     

  • (170) ‘Denial on Trial’. BBC History Magazine, February 2017, pp. 50-53.

     

  • (171) Interview with Capital magazine, 20/26 January 2017, pp. 104-7.

     

  • (172) ‘It’s important to stand up for truth’. Interview with Cambridge News, 28.

     

  • (173) ‘Internet y las Redes Sociales han abierto una Caja de Pandora de Mentiras’, Capital, 437, Jan-Feb 2017, pp. 104-7.

     

  • (174) ‘Politicians have always told lies – but nobody cares now’. The Guardian 14 February 2017, education section.

     

  • (175) ‘Sir Richard Evans: Denial will do its bit for establishing the truth’, Varsity, 20 February 2017.

     

  • (176) ‘Pathologische Züge wie Wilhelm II.’ Kölner Generalanzeiger, 11.5.17.

     

  • (177) ‘The Madness of King Donald’, Foreign Policy, 13.6.2017 online (July number hard copy); ‘The Madness of King Donald, 45th President of the United States’, Toronto Star, 18.6.2017; The Psychoanalytic Post http://www.psychoanalyticpost.com/the-madness-of-king-donald/general-news/tamar-schwartz; https://trump-block.com/2017/06/22/the-madness-of-king-donald/; Chicago Tribune, 13.6.2017; https://www.yahoo.com/news/madness-king-donald-143334625.html; etc.

     

  • (178) ‘Germany Wipes Slate Clean for 50,000 Men Convicted Under Anti-Gay Law’, New York Times, 23.6.2017.

     

  • (179) ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Tate Liverpool Portraying a Nation-Germany 1919-1933’, Tate Etc., Issue 40, Summer 2017, pp. 44-45.

     

  • (180) ‘The Nobel Peace Prize Isn’t About Peace’, Foreign Policy, 2.10.2017.

     

  • (181) ‘From Nazism to Never Again: How Germany Came to Terms With Its Past’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 1, January/February 2018, pp. 8-15.

     

  • (182) ‘Donald Trump’s Sexual Immunity’, Foreign Policy, 12 February 2018.

     

  • (183) Interview on Dr Asperger and the Nazis, Washington Post, 19 April 2018.

     

  • (184) ‘Royal Weddings are a Fairy Tale. They Used to Be High-Stakes Diplomacy’, Foreign Policy, 2 May 2018.

     

  • (185) ‘Hitler’s People’, BBC History Magazine, Collector’s Edition: ‘Nazi Germany’, June 2018, pp. 25-30.

     

  • (186) ‘The continued interest in Nazi Germany’, BBC History Magazine, Collector’s Edition: ‘Nazi Germany’, June 2018, p. 114.
  • (187) https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/why-comparing-trumps-america-to-nazi-germany-misses-the-point.html (July 2018)

     

  • (188) ‘World War I was fought not between nation-states but multinational empires’, Iranian Labour News Agency, 21 August 2018 (https://www.ilna.ir/Section-politics-3/658934-world-war-was-fought-not-between-nation-states-but-between-multinational-empires-richard-evans-tells-ilna)

     

  • (189) ‘Was it worth it? Did the outcome of the First World War justify the enormous loss of life?’ BBC History Magazine, November 2018, pp. 12-13.

     

  • (190) ‘Man hat die Pflicht, den Toten zuzuhören’. Interview with Peer Teuwsen, NZZ Geschichte 18 (October 2018), pp. 16-24.

     

  • (191) ‘How the Brexiteers broke history’, New Statesman, 16-22 November 2018, pp. 22-27.

     

  • (192) ‘Wie hätte Goebbels das Internet genutzt?’ Interview with David Hesse, Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich), 17.11.2018.

     

  • (193) ‘Repeating history: To what extent is it helpful and/or accurate to describe President Donald Trump as a fascist?’ Times Literary Supplement, 6033, 16 November 2018, p. 13.

     

  • (194) “Immer geht es um die Rückkehr in vergangene Zeiten”. Interview for Der Spiegel: Chronik 2018, pp. 194-7. (also online, in French).

     

  • (195) ‘The Conversation: Mary Fulbrook and Richard J Evans discuss her book on the aftermath of the Holocaust’, BBC World Histories issue 13 (December 2018/January 2019), pp. 72-79.

     

  • (196) ‘For Eric Hobsbawm, communism was a matter of life and death’, BBC History Magazine February 2019, pp. 67-69.

     

  • (197) ‘Beyond the Party’, The Guardian Saturday Review, 53 (19 January 2019), pp. 32-34.

     

  • (198) ‘Combatting Holocaust denial and the new far right’, The Morning Star, 4 February 2019.

     

  • (199) Interview on Eric Hobsbawm, BBC History Extra podcast, 11 February 2019: https://www.historyextra.com/…/eric-hobsbawm-history-polit…/

     

  • (200) ‘Internet y las redes sociales han abierto una caja de Pandora de mentiras’, Capital (Chile), February 2019.

     

  • (201) ‘Forging the Führer. The sinister trade in fake Hitler paintings is thriving. But who is buying them – and why?’, Prospect May 2019, pp. 36-40. (202) https://audioboom.com/posts/7242414-eric-hobsbawm-marxist-historian-richard-j-evans (203) https://www.thenation.com/article/chronicling-the-age-of-hobsbawm-a-hobsbawm-communism-history-labour-party-richard-evans/ (204) https://ctxt.es/es/20190522/Politica/25567/richard-j-evans-eric-hobsbawn-brexit-corbyn-sebastiaan-faber.htm

     

  • (205) ‘Peering Darkly into the Future. What would Eric Hobsbawm have thought about Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit and the Rise of Boris Johnson?’, New Statesman, 16-22 August 2019, pp. 27-28.

     

  • (205) ‘Peterloo: the massacre that led to a new democratic era’, The Guardian, Journal section, 16 August 2019, pp. 1-2; reprinted in Aditya Chakrabortty (ed.), The Bedside Guardian 2019 (London, 2019), pp. 257-260.

     

  • (206) ‘Britain’s Reichstag Fire Moment’, Prospect online, 29 August 2019: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/britain-prorouging-boris-johnson-parliament-suspension-richard-evans-weimar

     

  • (207) Interview in L’Obs, 24.10.2019.

     

  • (208) ‘I said I would vote Labour to stop the Tories, but Corbyn’s refusal to apologise changed my mind’, The Independent, 31 November 2019.

     

  • (209) ‘Corbyn must resign as soon as he loses the election’, New Statesman, 6-12 December 2019, p. 35.

     

  • (210) Interview (in Greek), in To Vima, 6/46, December 2019.

     

  • (211) ‘Das Gewissen eines Gutachters. Zur Debatte um die Hohenzollern und den Nationalsozialismus’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 December 2019, Feuilleton p. 4.

     

  • (212) ‘When the Liberators Came’ [on the liberation of Auschwitz], BBC History Magazine, February 2020, pp. 27-29.

     

  • (213) Isaac Chotiner, ‘How governments respond to pandemics like the coronavirus’, interview, The New Yorker, 18 March 2020.

     

  • (214) ‘How the coronavirus crisis echoes Europe’s 19th-century cholera pandemic’, New Statesman, 2 April 2020.

     

  • (215) ‘Why pandemics create conspiracy theories’, New Statesman, 16 April 2020.

     

  • (216) Interview on coronavirus with To Vima, 10 May 2020.

     

  • (217) ‘Quando le Malttie forgiano lo Stato’ Limes: Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, 3/2020, pp. 293-301.

     

  • (218) ‘The history wars’, New Statesman, 19 June 2020, pp. 24-27.

     

  • (219) ‘Two songs that shaped the course of the Second World War’, New Statesman online, 22 June 2020.

     

  • (220) ‘R A Fisher and the science of hatred’, New Statesman online, 28 July 2020.

     

  • (221) ‘The spectre of conspiracies’, BBC History Magazine November 2020, pp. 59-64.

     

  • (222) Book of the Year, New Statesman, 13-19 November 2020, p. 46.

     

  • (223) ‘What the Hitler conspiracies mean’, New Statesman, 4-10 December 2020, pp. 30-32.

     

  • (224) ‘Demons of the present. To compare Trump with Hitler and Mussolini is wrong. But we must not be complacent about disinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehood’, New Statesman, 15-21 January 2021, pp. 32-35. Reptinted in Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (ed.), Did it Happen Here? Perwspectives on Fascism and America (Norton, New York, 2024), pp. 79-85.

     

  • (225) ‘How should we remember the Holocaust? Why the plan for a new national memorial in Westminster is causing such division’, New Statesman, 22-28 January 2021, pp. 32-35.

     

  • (226) ‘The Bad Statesmen. How the UK government’s failure to learn the lessons of history pushed the country deeper into crisis’, New Statesman, 29 January-4 February 2021, pp. 25-29.

     

  • (227) ‘Anti-Semitism lurks behind modern conspiracy theories’, Irish Times, 17 February 2021.

     

  • (228) Interview on 200th anniversary of Greek Independence, To Vima, 21 March 2021, pp. 12-13.

     

  • (239) ‘Prince Philip and the professors’, New Statesman, online 10 April 2021: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2021/04/prince-philip-and-professors

     

  • (240) ‘The German History Wars’, New Statesman, 14-20 May, 2021, pp. 33-37.

     

  • (241) ‘Do We Need a New Atlantic Charter?’ The Wall Street Journal, 18/19 June 2021.

     

  • (242) ‘Life in Nazi Germany’ BBC History Revealed 97 (August 2021), pp. 28-59 (corrected and revised all contributions).
  • (243) Aaron J Leonard, ‘Richard J. Evans on Fascism, Today’s Right, and Historical Truth’, History News Network, 29 August 2021. http://hnn.us/article/181099

     

  • (244) ‘Brexit: de Tweede wereldoorlog herleeft’, Nexus 87 (2021), pp. 169-184.

     

  • (245) ‘Alfred Rosenberg: The making of a Nazi antisemite’, The Jewish Quarterly 246 (November 2021), pp. 50-55.

     

  • (246) ‘Books of the Year’, New Statesman, 19-25 November 2021, p. 44.

     

  • (247) ‘Books of the Year’, Times Literary Supplement, 6191 (26 November, 2021), p. 12.

     

  • (248) ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books, 43/323 (2 December 2021), pp. 12-13.

     

  • (249) ‘ Why Neville Chamberlain will forever be discredited by his policy of appeasement’ Review of Munich: The Edge of War, New Statesman 21-27 January 2022, pp. 32-34.
  • (250) ‘Denial: Thoughts on a Movie, Memories of a Trial’, Observing Memories 5 (December 2021), pp. 6-15.
  • (251) ‘Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster’, New Statesman 22-28 April 2022, pp. 22-25.
  • (252) ‘“I was his doctor and not his murderer’. On Carl Otto von Eicken”. NZZ am Sonntag, 4 June 2022.
  • (253) ‘The sense of an ending. Elizabeth II’s legacy and Example will endure. But the certainty she provided has gone’, New Statesman, 16-22 September 2022, pp. 18-20.
  • (254) ‘The Bitter End: Downfall of Nazi Germany’, BBC History Magazine, November 2022, pp. 62-69.
  • (255) ‘Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate. To put it mildly’, BBC History Magazine, May 2023, 11-13.
  • (256) ‘Historiker Richard Evans: “Ein Spiel zwischen Zufall und großen Linien’, Frankfurter Rundschau, 14 May 2023 (interview).
  • (257) ‘Why Donald Trump is not a fascist’, in Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (ed.), Did it happen here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (Norton, 2024)
  • (258) ‘The wrong side of history’. Weekend essay, New Statesman, 2 March 2024 https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-essay/2024/03/gaza-ukraine-wrong-side-history?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1709336942-3

     

  • (259) ‘Museum Pieces’, The New Republic, July-August 2024, pp. 56-59.

     

  • (260) ‘The Nazis were human – just like us’, BBC History Magazine November 2024, pp. 65-69.

     

  • (261) “Für Hitler ging es um alles oder nichts”, Frankfurter Rundschau, 7 February 2025, Feuilleton, pp. 18-19.
  • (262) https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/02/the-thwarted-marxist-of-balliol Article on Christopher Hill and the British Marxist historians, New Statesman online, 2 March 2025.

     

  • (263) ‘A New Reich?’ Prospect, May 2025, pp. 50-55.

     

  • (264) b’Unabsehbar viele neue Möglichkeiten’, ZEIT GESCHICHTE 3/25, pp. 20-24.