History

Prior to becoming the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric in 2009, Richard J Evans was a Visiting Professor of History. In this position he delivered two highly popular series of lectures, on The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989, and then on Germany and the Second World War, during 2006 and 2008.

Professor Richard J. Evans FBA is Regius Professor of Modern History and President of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. 

He has lectured extensively all over the world at a variety of literary festivals and events, is widely published and is a frequent contributor to the broadcast media and the press.  He has been Editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 1998 and a judge of the Wolfson Literary Award for History since...