Eric J. Evans

Professor Eric Shaun Evans is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Lancaster. His specialist areas include the history of social policy, the inter-relationship between society and the political process and the development of British national identities. Recent publications include Sir Robert Peel, Statesmanship Power and Party (2nd ed., 2006) The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain 1783-1870 (3rd ed., Longman, 2001), and The Birth of Modern Britain, 1780-1914 published in 1997. He is also uninterested in assessment, having been a Chief Examiner and Chair of Examiners for three major English Examination Boards. He is a Fellow of the UK Historical Association and the Royal Society of Arts.

Books include

* The Great Reform Act of 1832 (2nd edition, Routledge, 1994)
* The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (3rd edition, Longman Pearson, 2001)
* Britain before the Reform Act (Longman, 1989)
* Sir Robert Peel: Statesmanship, Power and Party (Routledge, 1991, 2nd ed 2006)
* William Pitt the Younger (Routledge, 1999)
* Parliamentary Reform, c. 1770-1918 (Longman, 2000)
* Thatcher and Thatcherism (Routledge, 1997, 2nd 2004)