Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My current interests include: abolitionism in the British world in the nineteenth century; the links between European industry and the Atlantic slave trade; eighteenth-century whaling; and Swansea copper as an agency of global change in the nineteenth century.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, University of London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1988
History, BA, University College London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1983
Keywords
- D204 Modern History
- History from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
- E11 America (General)
- Environmental and social frontiers
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Swansea Copper: A Global History
Evans, C. & Miskell, L., 11 Jan 2021, Johns Hopkins University Press.Research output: Other contribution
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Open Access
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From Sheep to Sugar - Wales and the Slave Trade
Evans, C. & Millman, L., 22 May 2020, The Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers, 274, p. 17-19 3 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Review of Gillian Cookson, 'The Age of Machinery: engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850'
Evans, C., 2 Jan 2020, In: Social History. 45, 1, p. 129-131 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and slaves in the Danish Atlantic trade at mid-eighteenth century
Rydén, G. & Evans, C., Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks, and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century . Weiss, H. (ed.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 117-146 30 p. (Dialectics of the Global; no. 6).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Prizes
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Abbot Payson Usher Prize
Evans, Chris (Recipient) & Withey, A. (Recipient), 1 Dec 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 1 Mar 2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Best Article Prize 2019 of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Integration
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 25 Feb 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Betty Sams Christian Fellowship
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 1 Apr 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Douglass Adair Memorial Award
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Wales and Atlantic Slavery
Chris Evans (Speaker)
1 Aug 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Society for Caribbean Studies 44th Annual Conference
Chris Evans (Speaker)
2020 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Audit of public monuments, street and building names in Wales associated with Black history: task and finish group
Chris Evans (Consultant)
2020 → …Activity: Consultancy
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Entrepreneurship and Technological Change: The Birmingham and District Cut-Nail Trade, c. 1811-1913
Chris Evans (Examiner)
26 Sep 2019Activity: Examination
Press / Media
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Slavery and Wales: The mansions and wealth that reveal how the nation was linked to the slave trade
21/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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De strijd is geopend: Britten willen nu echt af van hun koloniale standbeelden
9/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Impacts
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Wales and Atlantic Slavery: redressing historical amnesia
Chris Evans (Participant)
Impact: Cultural impacts