EVANS was one of the neutral "expert witnesses" expensively (£250,000) hired by Prof Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher to testify as to Mr Irving's worth as an historian during the libel action against her. After spending 20 man-years searching Mr Irving's thirty works, Evans and his team wrote a report charging that the author had made 19 errors (e.g., he had misread a five-letter word in Himmler's handwriting). In a remarkably hostile judgment, Mr Justice Gray reduced even that figure to twelve.]

• Bloomberg: Nazis Chew Cyanide, Germans Feign Ignorance of Holocaust - George Walden MP reviews Evans' Third Reich trilogy in harsh, even disrespectful, terms: "The glumly unimaginative style that makes Evans's account like a long draft of flat beer is at times enlivened with poignant details. ... Evans is curiously inarticulate and galumphing."
• Letter: Chris Poole hasn't seen Richard J. Evans since he was at Forest School in the mid-sixties. "We were amazed that he became an Historian"
• Nov 2008: David Irving, A Radical's Diary: Professor Richard 'Skunky' Evans (right) talks at the LSE
• Feb 2008: Donald Bady throws more light on the profound wisdom of the ineffably gullible "Skunky" Evans about World War Two: a mysterious note found in a German unexploded bomb -- allegedly
• Jan 2008: Should Prof Richard "Skunky" Evans become the Regius Professorship of Modern History at the University of Cambridge?
• Aug 2007: Thank Evans: Meeting David Irving's nemesis: Australia- Israel Review interviews Professor Richard "Skunky" Evans, the well-rewarded Third Reich 'expert' who did not even know who Albert Speer was
• A Historian Comments on Richard "Skunky" Evans's masterpiece 'The Coming of the Third Reich' (Penguin Ltd)
• Jul 20, 2004: FAZ deems Evans's first volume of War Trilogy boring, needlessly elaborate, and insensitive | Can Prof Richard Evans only write turgid, boring, over-detailed tracts of history? Nov 20, 2004: A Canadian acolyte Robert Fulford disagrees
• May 2004: Reviewing "Skunky" Evans book, Abraham Brumberg in The Nation calls Mr Irving "foul, mendacious apologist for and admirer of Adolf Hitler" -- and gets a reply
• May 2004 (letter): Clint Swift thinks that Professor Richard Evans is so cool, compared with the [expletive] Mr Irving
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews the latest Erguss by Richard "Skunky" Evans | and Mr Irving's sarcastic comment
• David Irving: A Radical's Diary, Jan 12, 2004: on documents in the latest Deborah Lipstadt claim, for all his possessions to be turned over to her
• Richard Evans: Why There Are So Many Books About the Nazis
  "Evans looks confused for a moment. 'I've got someone flying in from the US to research the Irving trial' ..."
• Analysis of the Lipstadt trial from the Yale Law Journal, Jun 2001, by Wendie Ellen Schneider, with special reference to the role of the "expert witness"
• Oct 2003: The Skunk's new book trashed The Sunday Times scornful of Evans's latest product
• A Norwegian PhD scholar reveals Evans's unconcealed hostility to Mr Irving at Cambridge University | Bruce C, of Melbourne, Australia, compares Evans's Cambridge statements on Irving's research ("worthless") with what he said on Australian radio ("undeniably important")
• A reader asks Mr Irving's opinion of the conformist historians Ian Kershaw, Richard Evans, Peter Padfield
• New Review of Richard "Skunky" Evans book Telling Lies about Hitler
• Richard Evans praised a book which says Eichmann's word is not proof enough against Hitler
• "The book of my enemy has been remaindered" -- A Clive James poem, from The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems
• London Socialist Historians Group gives Professor Richard "Skunky" Evans a rave review
• R L Cope: "Irving versus Lipstadt: a[n] historian's view of the case," in Kleio, No.33, 2001 (University of South Africa)
• See the learned but stodgy review article by Raymond Martin, "Clio Raped", in History and Theory, vol. 41 (May 2002): 225-238. [download as pdf file]
• Richard J. Evans, "History, Memory, and the Law: The Historian as Expert Witness" (abstract only online) in History and Theory, Oct. 2002
• Richard Evans article, "History, Memory, and the Law," in History and Theory, a journal published by Wesleyan University, in Oct 2002; his article is entitled: [Full text: pdf, Zipped to 108K]
• On Jan 16, 2003, Richard "Skunky" Evans lectured to the University of Glasgow. We do not yet have a transcript to post: Richard J. Evans, The Holocaust in Court: History, Memory & the Law. The third University of Glasgow Holocaust memorial lecture (University of Glasgow, 2003). If somebody will supply a scan we will post it here. [email]
• Antoon De Baets, "Defamation Cases against Historians"(abstract only online) in History and Theory, Oct. 2002
• Flashback: The Jerusalem Report has unsurprising praise for Richard ("Skunk") Evans
• Philip Adams interviews Prof Evans at length on Australian Radio [with Mr Irving's added comments] | Australian Victor Ashelford attempts to ask. Evans an awkward question
• The draft of the David Irving appeal document book, refuting Prof Richard ("Skunk") Evans's allegations
• David Pryce-Jones has words of highest praise for Evans' book (US edition)
• Richard Evans puts his side of the story, "The Real Cost of Free Speech", in The Times Higher Educational Supplement | and is promptly denounced by one publisher involved for "fudging the truth"
• Evans reviews Guttenplan book in Daily Telegraph (Mar 20, 2001), calls it "A controversial account of the Irving libel trial"
• Don Guttenplan reviews UK edition of Evans book on the Lipstadt Trial, Telling Lies about Hitler | Furious reply by Evans in New Statesman
• Radical's Diary
• Sunday Telegraph: Irving's home is repossessed as libel debts mount
• Michael Burleigh writes: It is time for the David Irving libel case to be consigned to history
• Private Eye, June 2002, accuses Evans of lying: The Führer, The Jackal, The Professor and his Publishers
• Evans Lying book reviewed by revisionist Grubach
• Evans book to hit UK bookstands: Nick Cohen writes in The Observer: Jun 17, 2002 "At last, an English publisher has had the guts to stand up to David Irving ... a neo-Nazi fraud with a smattering of legal jargon" | David Irving replies | The Guardian reports: UK publisher paid Prof. Evans nothing for his book on the Lipstadt Trial (after four others rejected it) | Michael Burleigh reviews it for The Sunday Telegraph
  "Evidently, the duel goes on. Evans clubs the prostrate Irving with this book; [Mr Irving's] website depicts the Professor as a cartoon skunk." | Private Eye scalps the Skunk: The Führer, The Jackal, The Professor and his Publishers | Publisher accuses of "Fudging the Truth"
• Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm) interview reveals Evans plans to publish his Lying book in UK after all [Swedish] [see David Irving, Radical's Diary]
• Sydney Morning Herald reviews Prof Evans book on the Lipstadt Trial
• Paul J Weindling has just published Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe 1890-1945 and has done what Richard Evans most feared, subjected his book to a thorough scrutiny
• Richard Evans reviews for The Jewish Chronicle a bumper Holocaust almanac: "An umbrella that's almost too big for the storm"
• Extract from Trial Transcript, David Irving challenges Prof. Evans -- testifying on oath -- about his manifest bias
• US Library Journal reviews Prof. Richard Evans's libellous book
• 1987: Richard J Evans scoffed that Germany would never, NEVER, be reunified (but David Irving got it right)
• David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial by Richard J. Evans
• Mr Irving invites Prof. Evans to answer some queries about his expert report
• Review of book, Richard J. Evans, Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987
• April 21, 2000 Irving trial witness [Evans] to sit on 'looted art' panel
• Letter: Prof. Evans: If the price is right
• The Times diary: Prof Evans smears Mr Irving behind his back at Cambridge
• Richard J. Evans in Frankfurter Rundschau: Blitzkrieg und Hakenkreuz Vom Irving-Prozess zur Holocaust-Ausstellung: Der Nationalsozialismus in britischer Perspektive
• David Irving answers requests of Cambridge University newspaper Varsity for comments on Evans
• Professor Richard Evans' libellous comments on David Irving in Cambridge university magazine Varsity
• A learned reviewer suggests that Professor Evans's book is unscholarly, ignorant, and sloppy | Evans' response to some of his critics
• Radical's Diary: Evans's book on Lipstadt Trial to be published Feb 2001
• Professor Evans writes his own version of the trial for BBC History magazine
• Prof Richard Evans: David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial by Richard J. Evans. Warning: The Evans report in particular is highly defamatory, and is reproducible only in connection with this litigation
• Writing in leftwing Berlin newspaper TAZ on Jan 23, 2001 Evans calls the Lipstadt trial a victory for free speech
• Richard Evans: Lying About Hitler: History, the Holocaust and the David Irving Trial [Our book review]
• Jacob Heilbrunn reviews the US edition for The National Review | Mr Irving's comment
• The Guardian, March 14, 2001: "Top historian's work rejected amid libel fears finds new home" (and our comment)
• Bertelsmann-Ableger [Heinemann-Verlag] kneift vor David Irving | Mr Irving warns new publisher | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Angst vor David Irving: Heinemann zieht ein Buch zurück
• The Observer (London) whinges about "A ploy named Sue": Other publishers are now suddenly frightened of lying about Mr Irving | [ and Mr Irving's response]
• Evans reviews Guttenplan book in Daily Telegraph (Mar 20, 2001), calls it "A controversial account of the Irving libel trial"
• Prof. Evans defended May 8, 2001 by an anonymous "Brad"
• Evans turned out to be totally ignorant of the CSDIC interrogation reports in British archives
• Prof. Bogdanor praises Evans's book in The Spectator review of Mr Irving's Churchill biography
• Der Geschichtsfälscher. Holocaust und historische Wahrheit im David-Irving-Prozess. von Richard Evans
• Telling Lies About Hitler, by Richard Evans, by Paperback - 400 pages (May 27, 2002) Basic Books; ISBN: 0465021530
• David Irving writes to Connecticut student Marie Miller with some views on Prof. Evans and other conformist historians
• Transcript of Radio Four broadcast on Lipstadt Trial. Nov 8, 2001 (Evans participates)
• Berlin Tagespiegel reviews Evans book: Ein britischer Historiker entlarvt den Holocaust-Leugner David Irving
• Adrian Colmenares reports from Mexico that Prof Richard Evans's book is unsaleable in USA
• David Irving reflects in his Radical's Diary on Richard Evans and his worth as a hired expert | Dean Palmer investigates, finds that The Skunk's book has been remaindered - and worse
• Dick Earley comments on the ratio of Jews who fought for Germany in WW1 to WW2: another historical distortion by Richard Evans

Joel Hayward case (NZ)

• Extraordinary finding by New Zealand university board that Prof Richard Evans was not neutral or objective in Hayward inquiry, but motivated by malice
• Professor Evans is at it again: enough to make a skunk scowl
• Evans hired to destroy career of New Zealand academic Dr Joel Hayward
• N Z Herald, July 2003: "Notwithstanding the working party's remarks on Evans' language and lack of objectivity, he appeared both to the Jewish Council and the working party as a witness otherwise above reproach."
• Richard J. Evans defends himselfs: Academic standards the issue, not freedom; he was hired by New Zealand Jewish Council to destroy Joel Hayward's reputation | Hayward replies, reminding us that Evans was highly paid to destroy him
• NZ Academic Martin Lally corresponds with Prof Richard "Skunky" Evans on whether universities should accept theses on 'Holocaust denial' | NZ Journalist Philip Matthews asks Lally how this correspondence with Evans is being leaked to this website
• 'Skunky' Evans will be wheeled out by the BBC's Panorama on Monday, February 7, 2011, as part of a "holocaust denier" smear against Wikileaks associate Israel Shamir
• Dr Diane Purkiss, Fellow of Keble College, Oxford:"For a man passionately keen to argue that historians must judiciously evaluate all available evidence and refrain from going beyond it into speculation, Evans seems strikingly reluctant to use this august methodology on his hapless victims."

Libels in his books

• Mr Irving warns Prof Evans on Feb 9, 2002 not to publish his US book in UK before the lies are taken out (similar letters went to UK distributors). | but Evans's own US publisher now drops its plans to publish him in UK (Radical's Diary) | and UK distributors refuse to handle it | UK publisher paid him no advance to book after four others rejected it
• Tim Bradin is astonished that Judge Gray did not recognise the bias of Prof Evans (Letter)
• Adrian Tan of Singapore has been poring over the Evans oeuvre (Letter)
• Nick Cohen writes in The Observer: "At last, an English publisher has had the guts to stand up to David Irving ... a neo-Nazi fraud with a smattering of legal jargon" | David Irving replies

Picture section

   
Professor Richard Evans • His books • A skunk

A warning about too much Brain Candy

RICHARD EVANS fans scouring the Internet for favourable tidbits about the academic and financial genius Richard Evans, the professor and historian, will stumble, as one of our readers did, across the website of a "Professor Richard Evans" at http://www.awwwsome.com/braincandy/ which displays the portrait on the right.

Those who witnessed the brilliant and vivacious witness testifying in the High Court are almost certain he is not the same person.