Richard John Evans (GBR)

Sir Richard John Evans, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS (born 29 September 1947) is a British academic and historian, best known for his research on the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the Third Reich. He was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge until 2014, and is currently President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College.

Evans was born at Woodford, London, of Welsh parentage, and was, until September 2014, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College. He applied for the distinguished Cambridge position, whereas his predecessors were chosen, marking a procedural change at Cambridge. Evans has also taught at the University of Stirling, University of East Anglia and Birkbeck College, London. Having been a Visiting Professor in History at Gresham College during 2008/09, he was the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric between 2009 and 2013.

Evans was educated at Forest School, Jesus College, Oxford (MA), St Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil) and the University of East Anglia (LittD). In a 2004 interview, he stated that frequent visits to Wales during his childhood inspired both an interest in history and a sense of "otherness".

Evans was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.

Works: 

The Feminist Movement In Germany, 1894–1933, London: Sage Publications, 1976.
"German Women and the Triumph of Hitler," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 48, No. 1, March 1976
The Feminists: Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia, 1840–1920, London: C. Helm, 1977.
Society And Politics In Wilhelmine Germany edited by R. J. Evans, London: Croom Helm, 1980, 1978.
Review article: "The History of European Women: A Critical Survey of Recent Research," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 52, No. 4, December 1980
The German Family: Essays on the Social History of The Family in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany, London: C. Helm ; Totowa, N. J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981.
The German Working Class, 1888–1933: The Politics Of Everyday Life, London: Croom Helm ; Totowa, N. J.: Barnes & Noble, 1982.
The German Peasantry: Conflict And Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries edited by Richard J. Evans and W. R. Lee, London: Croom Helm, 1986.
The German Unemployed: Experiences And Consequences Of Mass Unemployment From The Weimar Republic To The Third Reich, London: C. Helm, 1987.
Rethinking German History: Nineteenth-Century Germany And The Origins Of The Third Reich, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987.
Comrades And Sisters: Feminism, Socialism, And Pacifism In Europe, 1870–1945, Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
"The New Nationalism and the Old History: Perspectives on the West German Historikerstreit," The Journal of Modern History, Volume 59, No. 4, December 1987, pages 761–97
Death In Hamburg: Society And Politics In The Cholera Years, 1830–1910 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.
The German Underworld: Deviants And Outcasts In German history, London: Routledge, 1988.
In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians And The Attempt To Escape From The Nazi Past, London: I. B. Tauris, 1989, ISBN 1-85043-146-9.
Proletarians And Politics: Socialism, Protest, And The Working Class In Germany Before The First World War, New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
The German Bourgeoisie: Essays On The Social History Of The German Middle Class From The Late Eighteenth To The Early Twentieth Century London: Routledge, 1991.
Rituals Of Retribution: Capital Punishment In Germany 1600–1987, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Rereading German History: From Unification To Reunification, 1800–1996, London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
Tales From The German Underworld: Crime And Punishment In The Nineteenth Century, New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 1998.
In Defense of History, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.
Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, And The David Irving Trial, New York: Basic Books, 2001; published in the United Kingdom as Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, Verso Books, 2002.
The Coming Of The Third Reich, London: Allen Lane, 2003.
The Third Reich In Power, 1933–1939, New York: Penguin, 2005.
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster , London: Allen Lane, 2008.
Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and The European Continent, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Evans, Richard J. Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History, ISBN 978-3-61168-536-1

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Evans