Papers & Magazines
Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress
Europe’ Century of Peace and Progress
We might be leaving the EU but we’re very much part of Europe
London Evening Standard, 25 August 2016, p. 16.
Why is History still written by men?
The Guardian Review, 6 February 2016, p. 3
Hitler as Military Leader
Wartime: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, Summer 2016, pp. 10-16.
‘L’impérialisme écologique n’explique pas la Shoah’
Le Monde, global edition online, 17 October 2015.
End the secrecy now
The Sun, 20 July 2015, p. 7.
Five Best: Richard J. Evans on the Third Reich Remembered
Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2015
Think Again
World War II, May/June 2015, pp. 66-73
Museum at War
The Times, 27 February 2015, p. 29
My people will be passengers, not customers
King for a Day’ series, The Guardian, 14 February 2015, p. 33.
The darkest memory
The Guardian, review section, 7 February 2015, pp. 2-4
Die Heimsuching
Die Zeit: Hamburg, 17 November 2014, p. 1.
Interview with Prof. Dr. Richard J. Evans
Kilavuz 51 (Autumn 2014).
The Front Lines
The Guardian, 26 July 2014, Review Section, p. 4.
Michael Gove: “bogeyman” or “the greatest education secretary ever”?
The Guardian, 22 July 2014, Education Section.
Interview by Takeshi Minami on World War I commemoration in UK
JiJi Press News Agency, Tokyo, 24 June 2014.
Higher Calling. By the ghost of Sir Thomas Gresham – it’s a London institution
Times Higher Education, 12-18 June 2014, pp. 41-43.
Interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini
6 May 2014
Interview with Greek newspaper To Vima
6 May 2014
Sino-US differences will not lead to global war, says historian: Interview
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
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).
Enough of the armchair generals
The Guardian Saturday Review, 15 March 2014.
Ten-point guide to dodging publishing pitfalls
Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 March 2014
The Past That Never Was
BBC History Magazine, March 2014, pp. 36-39.
La perception britannique de la Grande Guerre est concentrée sur l’expérience nationale’
Le Monde, 26 Feb. 2014.
How to remember a war
The Indian Express, 3 February 2014, p. 10.
Will the Next World War Start in the Middle East
The New Republic, 25 January 2014 (online interview)
WWI coin “inappropriate” and Gove is a “donkey
says Cambridge academic’, Varsity, 24 January 2014
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
Letter on Foreign Office concealment of documents
The Guardian, 23 January 2014
Michael Gove Shows His Ignorance of History – Again
The Guardian Review, 6 January 2014, inside back page.
Books of 2013
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 48/2013 (19 December 2013), p. 51
Letter in London Review of Books
35/24 (19 December 2013), p. 4 (see response two issues later)
Der Angriff
Merian: Dresden (Hamburg, December 2013), pp. 50-51.
Interview on Der Landser
BBC History Magazine (History Extra website), 18 September 2013
Interview on commemoration of World War I
Cambridge News, 8 August 2013
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
Angleterre: l’île ou le monde?
Le débat, 175 (mai-août 2013), pp. 163-71
Syphilis – the great scourge
Microbiology Today , Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 2013), pp. 62-65
The Mr Men game
The New Statesman 17-23 May 2013, p. 29.
The rote sets in. Michael Gove’s new history curriculum
The New Statesman, 15-21 March 2012, pp. 60-61.
Beware meddling with the history curriculum
Letter to The Times, 1 March 2013
Letter in The Guardian
19 February 2013.
Interview with Greek newspaper To Vima
10 Feb 2013, pp. 6-7.
On Her Majesty’s scholarly service
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7-13 February 2013, pp. 40-43
The folly of putting Little England at the heart of history
Financial Times, 8 February 2013, p. 11.
Nevana ne skrajna desnica
Dnevnik (Slovenia) 29 Jan 2013, p. 4 (interview).
The Vôlkischer Beobachter
Letter to the editor, Times Literary Supplement, 18 January 2013, p. 6
Ein Volk vor dem Gericht der Geschichte
Geo-Epoche Nr. 58, pp. 150-55 [interview]
Letter to The Times on used of unmanned drones to bomb civilians in Afghanistan
7 December 2012
Royal Succession: Why a New Law Won’t Change Much
The Guardian online, 5 December 2012.
Books of the Year
New Statesman 29 November 2012.
A Right Royal Rumpus
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 11 October 2012, p. 24 (correspondence and final reply in following four issues).
Why did the Nazis come to power?
New Perspectives on Modern History 18/1 (Sept 2012), 6-9
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.
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
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.
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.
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British History: the View from the Left
Hard Times: Info der Neuen Deutsch-Britiischen Gesellschaft, 11, (October, 1979) pp. 5-10.