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Welcome to my website. It contains information about my career, publications, teaching, public activities and future plans

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rjevans-profile-imageThere 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 “Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History”, published by Little, Brown in the UK in February 2019 and by Oxford University Press in the USA.

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!

Books In Print

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...

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Career

The Historical Society Of Israel
Interview with Prof. Sir Richard Evan, Thursday, April 25, 2013
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Interview in ‘Historians’
Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster...
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Fifty Key Thinkers on History
An essential guide to the most influential historians
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Undergraduate Teaching
At Stirling University I taught and organised a
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Graduate Teaching
I had the privilege of devising and teaching a
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Public Activities
Since its inception I have been a member of the
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Conferences and Seminars
I founded the UEA Research Seminar Group in
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Publications

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
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Rituals of Retribution
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The Third Reich in History and Memo...
In this fascinating and enlightening collection of...
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Altered Pasts
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo...
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1...
This book is a history of Europe from...
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The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich in Power unfolds the terrible
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The Third Reich at War
How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster
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Lectures

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
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Nazi Foreign Policy
Nazi Foreign Policy Aims.
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Imperial Germany 1890-1914
Post-1918 nostalgia; Nazi contempt; return of nostalgia after 1945.
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Why Did Germany Lose the Second World War?
What Went Wrong?
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Corruption and Plunder in the Third Reich
Third Reich not just a dictatorship, also a Kleptocracy.
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Chamberlain and Appeasement: the Differing Views of Historians
Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
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Journalism

Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress
Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress
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We might be leaving the EU but we’re very much part of Europe
London Evening Standard, 25 August 2016, p. 16.
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Why is History still written by men?
The Guardian Review, 6 February 2016, p. 3
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Hitler as Military Leader
Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, Summer 2016, pp. 10-16.
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‘L’impérialisme écologique n’explique pas la Shoah’
Le Monde, global edition online, 17 October 2015.
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End the secrecy now
The Sun, 20 July 2015, p. 7.
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Five Best: Richard J. Evans on the Third Reich Remembered
Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2015
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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 →