Interviews

A New Threat for a New Era

New Statesman 2 July 2012, pp. 29-33.

Is history history?

The Guardian, 18 May 2012, p. 26.

Beware of easy historical parallels – Merkel is no Brüning

New Statesman, 13 February 2012, p. 20.

1066 and all that

New Statesman, 23 January 2012, pp, 42-5, and letter in 30 Jan issue p. 6.

Books of the Year

The Times Literary Supplement 2 December 2011, p. 10.

The Historian’ Historians

History Today, 61/12, December 2011, pp. 67-8.

A year in books

New Statesman, 21 November 21011, p. 50.

The shackles of the past

New Statesman 21 November 2011, pp. 22.25.

An Exchange: Toepfer and the Holocaust

Standpoint 35, November 2011, pp. 16-17.

Learn for the right reasons

The Guardian, 27 August 2011, p. 43.

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.

Remembrance of Things Past

Men’s Style, May 2011, 123-9 (interview quote)

Art in the Time of War

The National Interest 113 (May/June, 2011), 16-26.

The Third Reich at War

An Interview with Richard J. Evans’, History News Network 13 April 2011.

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 subsequent issues).

Tainted money?

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 March 2011, pp. 41-44; see also correspondence in THES 14 April 2011, p. 38.

Panel Games

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 February 2011, p. 44.

Glaubt der Diktator an seinen Mythos, sind seine Tage gezählt

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 January 2011, ‘International’ , p. 5.

Christmas Books recommendation New Statesman Dec 2010

Response to critics

London Review of Books, 2 December 2010, p. 4.

Christmas Books recommendation

TLS Dec 2010

Foreword, Wolfson College Magazine 34

Wolfson College Magazine 34 (2009-2010), p. 5.

Summer reading

CAM 60 (Easter 2010), p. 43.

Sussex cuts threaten a proud history of research-led excellence

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10-16 June 2010, pp.31-2

Richard Evans discusses Puck of Pook’s Hill

CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine 59 (Lent 2010), p. 53.

Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews: An Exchange

The New York Review of Books Vol. LVII, No. 2 (February 2010), p. 44.

Peaceful war?

BBC History Magazine Vol. 11 (2010), No. 2, pp. 52-56.

Waaeheid en herinnering

Nexus 53 (2009), pp. 139-52.

What are you reading

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17-23 September 2009, p. 47.

Stalingrad

Special Supplement to The Guardian, 8 September 2009, pp. 5-11.

Interview in El Mundo on the Second World War

early September 2009.

Truth, in Mick Gordon and Chriis Wilkinson (eds.)

Conversations on Truth (Continuum Books, London, July 2009), 61-73.

The history makers

The Guardian 2, 26 May 2009, pp. 10-11.

Van euthanasia tot Holocaust

interview in Reformatorisch Dagbla, 3 June 2008, p. 17.

The Nazi Seizure of Power

by William Sheridan Allen, Times Higher Education Supplement, 23-29 April, 2009, p.. 37

‘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.

Holocaust denial should not be a crime

Varsity, 16 January 2009, p. 9.

Perverting the course of science

The Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2008, p. 29.

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.

Writing the history of Nazi Germany

BBC History Magazine Vol. 9,) 10 (October 2008), pp. 60-61.

Letter to New York Review of Books, 14 February 2008.

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.

Richard Evans: “Hitler-Parodien? Wenn’s lustig ist

Interview in Die Welt, 16 January 2007, page 27.

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.

Is it worth studying the history of the nation state any longer?

The Guardian, Saturday 30 December 2006, p. 28.

It broadens the mind

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 8 (August 2006), 27.

The Death of Old Europe

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 September 2005, p. 18

Hitler’s Dictatorship

History Review, 51 (March 2005), 20-25.

Interview in Rita Kuczynski (ed.)

Ostdeutschland war nie etwas Natürliches (Berlin, 2005), 47-57

Zwei deutsche Diktaturen im 20. Jahrhundert? Essay

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1-2/2005, 3 Jan 2005, 3-9.

The Coming of the Third Reich

History Review, 50 (Dec. 2004), 12-17.

I like a cruise with strings attached

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 September 2004, p. 24.

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).

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).

Historiker sind Hofnarren

Interview in die tageszeitung (Berlin) 8 December 2003), p. 17.

Summer books selection

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 4 (2003) No. 7 (July), 68.

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.

Blast from the past

Article on the Iraq war, The Guardian G2 section, 19 February 2003, p. 4.

Just how intelligent?

Thee official history of MI5, The Guardian, 18 February 2001, education section, p. 15.

Time to make Nazis history, or is there life in Hitler yet?

Joint interview with Sir Ian Kershaw, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 January 2003, pp. 24-25.

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).

Contribution to IPR Discussion

Cambridge University Reporter Vol. 133/6, No. 5901 (30 Oct. 2002), pp. 233-4.

Why I believe Cambridge’s IPR proposals threaten academic freedom

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November 2002, p. 16.

David Irving: The Sequel

The New Statesman, 2 September 2002, p. 23.

Writ-Shy Decision

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 July 2002, p. 13.

The Führer, the Jackal, the Professor and his Publishers – The Sequel

Private Eye, 12-25 July 2002, p. 26 (also letter in following issue).

Article on the Irving Case

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 June 2002, pp. 14-15.

G. R, Elton and the Practice of History

History Today, December 2001, p. 3

Mullahs and kulaks – he would bin them all

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 November 2001

History on Trial

The Caian, November 2001, pp. 179-183.

Geschichtsfälschung und Wahrheit

Göttinger Tageblatt, 5 November 2001.

Rechts-Weg ausgeschlossen. David Irving ist am Ende, das Verleumdungsgesetz bleibt

Frankfurter Rundschau, 31 July 2001.

An interest stirred

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8 (August, 2001), p. 37.

Todesstrafe als politisches Symbol

die tageszeitung (Berlin), 9-10 July 2001, p. 6.

Victory for history

Interview by Jon Boone, Cherwell, 4 May 2001, p. 9.

In Defence of Common Sense

Cherwell, 27 April 2001, p. 6

Pursuit of truth

Interview of expert witnesses by Joe Plomin, The Guardian, education supplement, 24 April 2001, pp. 10-11.

Is this the past as we know it?

The Independent, 12 March 2001, Monday review p. 5.

How history became popular again

New Statesman, 12 February 2001. Pp. 25-7.

Facts to fight over

The Guardian, 6 February 2001, education supplement, p.14.

Witness: The Irving Trial, January 2000

BBC History Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 54-55.

Nynazister utgör inget hot

Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (Sweden), 16 October 2000, p. 6.

Kriget, Thatcher och tyskhatet

Moderna Tider, 120 (Oct. 2000), pp. 36-41.

Blitzkrieg und Hakenkreuz. Vom Irving-Prozess zur Holocaust-Ausstellung. Der Nationalsozialismus in britischer Perspektive

Frankfurter Rundschau, 16 September 2000, p. 21.

Professorn som stoppade David Irving

Interview in Svenska Dagbladet, 22 July 2000, p. 8.

History after Irving

Interview by Michael Kustow in Red Pepper, June 2000, pp. 27-9.

In defence of history

Interview in Varsity, 5 May 2000, p. 3.

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.

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.

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.

In Defence of History

World Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (October, 1997), pp. 6-8.

Watch on the Rhine?

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 November 1997, p. 16.

The Future of History

Prospect, October 1997, pp. 30-33.

Heart of the Matter

The Financial Times, 15 September 1997.

Truth lost in vain views

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 September, 1997, p. 18.

Report ignores part-timers

Article on the Dearing Report, in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 August, 1997, p. 12.

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.

An Autumn of German Romanticism

History Today, Vol. 44 (1994), pp. 9-12.

Speaking Volumes

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 February 1994.

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.

Germany’s Morning After

Marxism Today, June, 1991, pp. 20-23

‘German Unification and the New Revisionism

Dimensions, Vol. 6, No.1 (March, 1991), pp. 10-14.

Berlin Unlimited

Marxism Today, September 1990, p. 9.

Myth of the German psyche

The Guardian, 19 July, 1990, p. 19.

‘A mockery of history?

The Sunday Correspondent, 6 May 1990, p. 18.

Promised Land?

Marxism Today, April 1990, pp. 18-21; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

Er was geen Sovjet-Treblinka

NRC – Handelsblad, 31 March, 1990, Zaterdays Bijvoegal: Boeken, p.1

Germany’s Future Turns on Confronting the Past

Newsday, 25 March, 1990, pp. 4-5.

One nation, two states

London Review of Books, Vol.11, No. 24, 21 December, 1989, pp. 5-6.

In Hitler’s Shadow: Rewriting History

Present Tense, July-August, 1989, pp. 30-38.

Angst in den Zeiten der Cholera

Kursbuch 94 (Berlin, 1988), pp. 89-106

The Militant Suffragettes

Hard Times: Zeitschrift der Neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 20 (June, 1982), pp. 6-9.

British History: Marxist Interpretations

Hard Times - Info der neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, 14/15 (October, 1980), pp. 24-9.

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.

British History: the View from the Left

Hard Times: Info der Neuen Deutsch-Britiischen Gesellschaft, 11, (October, 1979) pp. 5-10.