Robert John Weston Evans

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Professor Robert John Weston Evans, FBA, was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and the University of Cambridge. Evans is Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He works on the post-medieval history of Central and Eastern Europe, especially concerning that of the Habsburg lands from 1526-1918.

He has a particular interest in the role of language in historical development. His main current research is on a history of Hungary, from 1740-1945. He also studies the history of Wales and is the President of Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym,Oxford University Welsh language society.

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• Rudolf II and his World. A Study in Intellectual History, 1576-1612. (Oxford, 1973)
• The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700. An Interpretation. (Oxford, 1979)
• The Coming of the First World War. Edited by Robert Evans and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann (Oxford, 1988)
• Crown, Church and Estates. Central European Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Edited by Robert Evans and T.V. Thomas
• The language of history and the history of language: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 May 1998. (Oxford, 1998) 34pp.
• Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Coming of the Revolution', and '1848 in the Habsburg Monarchy in The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-9: From Reform to Reaction (ed. Evans and H. Pogge von Strandmann), (Oxford, 2000) pp. 9-26, 181-206
• Wales in European Context. Some Historical Reflections. (Aberystwyth, 2001) 31pp.
• 'Der ungarische Nationalismus im internationalen Vergleich', in Nationalismen in Europa: West- und Osteuropa im Vergleich, ed. Ulrike v. Hirschhausen and Jörn Leonhard (Göttingen, 2001) pp. 291-305.
• Great Britain and East-Central Europe, 1908-48. A Study in Perceptions. (London, 2002) 31pp.
• '1848 in Mitteleuropa: Ereignis und Erinnerung' in 1848: Ereignis und Erinnerung in den politischen Kulturen Mitteleuropas, ed. Barbara Haider and Hans Peter Hye, (Vienna, 2003) pp. 31-55
• Great Britain and Central Europe, 1867-1914. Edited by Robert Evans, Dusan Kovac and Edita Ivanickova (Bratislava, 2003)
• Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Edited by Robert Evans and Alexander Marr (Aldershot, 2006)
• Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs. Essays on Central Europe, c.1683-1867 (Oxford, 2006)
• 'Europa in der britischen Historiographie' in Nationale Geschichtskulturen. Bilanz, Ausstrahlung, Europabezogenheit, ed. H. Duchhardt (MainzStuttgart, 2006) pp. 77-93.
• (ed. with Alexander Marr ), Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Aldershot, 2006) 265 pp.
• Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe 1918-1948. Proceedings of the British Academy no. 140. Edited by Robert Evans and Mark Cornwall (Oxford, 2007)
• 'The Successor States', in Twisted Paths: Europe 1914-1945, ed. Robert Gerwarth (Oxford, 2007), pp. 210-36.
• 'The politics of language and the languages of politics: Latin and the vernaculars in eighteenth-century Hungary', in Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Hamish Scott and Brendan Simms (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 200-24.