At Birkbeck College, London, where he worked before Cambridge, he acted as Master of the college when Baroness Blackstone left suddenly to become Tony Blair's first higher education minister. Evans is the author of a number of major books, including In Defence of History, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War and The Pursuit of Power. has produced the best and most up-to-date synthesis of the huge work carried out on the subject over the past decades. In an October 2008 review of the third volume for The Times, best-selling historian Antony Beevor writes: 'With this third volume, Richard Evans has accomplished a masterpiece of historical scholarship. Evans' involvement in the trial was included in the 2016 film Denial, in which he was played by British actor John Sessions. and criticized Stürmer's excessive focus on political history and overlooking of social conditions, as a regression to the outmoded great man theory of history. The shortlist of four was then reduced to two, whom the board interviewed, resulting in the board's recommendation of Evans to the Prime Minister and in the issue of a Royal Warrant for his appointment. Yet it was no historical accident, either.' The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. From 1989 to 1998 he was Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. In addition, Evans examined such subjects as belief in witchcraft, torture, the last words of the executed, the psychology of mobs, varying forms of execution from the Thirty Years War to the 1980s, profiles of executioners, cruelty, and changing views towards the death penalty. The great statistician was also a racist who believed in … RA Fisher and the science of hatred. In his expert witness report he wrote: Not one of books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. He admired the work of Fritz Fischer, whom he credits with inspiring him to study modern German history. Join Facebook to connect with Richard J Evans and others you may know. He writes reviews of history books for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, as well as historical reflections on recent events for American magazines and websites, including Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Vox.

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