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Evans's son was also paid to monitor an Azerbaijani election in 2018, when the son was 18 years old, which earned him a glowing letter of recommendation from the Azerbaijan ambassador to the United Kingdom – Evans's son proudly this letter on his LinkedIn page until 2024. [9] Evans's son also worked as a paid intern for SOCAR in Geneva in ...
Evans was born in February 1961 in Chester, moving to London when he was three. [1] [2] He attended the selective St Olave's Grammar School between 1972 and 1979. [3]He was an activist during the miners' strike of 1984–85, during which time he was arrested "for something like highway obstruction as he delivered a food parcel to the striking miners".
Sir Richard John Evans FRSL FRHistS FBA FLSW (born September 29, 1947) is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books, including his three-volume The Third Reich Trilogy (2003–2008).
Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley. [1] [2] [3] Old Europe is also referred to in some literature as the Danube ...
Evans was Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2011 and is a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. [1]He works on the post-medieval history of Central and Eastern Europe, especially concerning that of the Habsburg lands from 1526 to 1918.
Lord Evans may refer to: Horace Evans, 1st Baron Evans (1903–1963), Welsh physician; Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton (1928–1992), British solicitor and Liberal politician; Ifor Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall (1899–1982), British academic; John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside (1930–2016), British Labour politician
Sir John Evans KCB FRS FSA FRAI (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909.