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

Autarky: Fantasy or Reality?

Inaugural Lecture

as Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University, delivered on 18 May, 2009.

Looted Art and Its Restitution:

Moral and Cultural Dilemmas for the Twenty-first Century

Valedictory Lecture

as Regius Professor of History, 14 May 2014

Epidemics And Refuseniks: The Birth Of State Responsibility

Sense about Science Lecture Royal Society of Medicine, 9 May 2011

Ordinary Germans and the ‘Final Solution’

On 4 October 1943, in Posen, Heinrich Himmler...

Conspiracy Theories: A Threat to Democracy?

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture on The Great Plagues takes the example of...

The Great Unwashed

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was caused by

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century, was...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in the...

Decolonization: The End of Empire?

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918

Exploitation and Resistance

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed...

The Scramble for Africa

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial...