He was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College. 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 is now the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. He was educated at Forest School (Walthamstow), Jesus College, Oxford, and St Antony's College, Oxford. In a 2004 interview, Evans has stated that during frequent visits to Wales during his childhood inspired both an interest in history and a sense of "otherness".
Series
Books
Tales from the German Underworld
Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
1997
Lying About Hitler
2001
The Coming of the Third Reich
2003
In Hitler's Shadow
West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past
1989
Rituals of Retribution
Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987
1996
The Third Reich in Power
2005
Death in Hamburg
Society and Politics in the Cholera Years
1987
Eric Hobsbawm
A Life in History
2019
The Third Reich in History and Memory
2015
The Third Reich at War
2009
Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals)
From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996
1997
Hitler's People
The Faces of the Third Reich
2024
The Hitler Conspiracies
The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
2020
The Pursuit of Power
Europe 1815-1914
2016
Altered Pasts
Counterfactuals in History
2014
In Defense of History
1997
