High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard John Evans FBA FRSL (born 1947) is a British historian of Germany.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 applied for the distinguished Cambridge position whereas his predecessors were chosen - marking a procedural change at Cambridge. 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.