Hilary Evans’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British pictorial archivist and parapsychologist
A.K.A. Hilary Agard Evans
Was Historian 
Art historian 
Social historian 
Author 
Ufologist 
Journalist 
From United Kingdom 
Type Arts 
Academia 
Journalism 
Literature 
Science 
Social science 
Gender male
Birth 6 March 1929, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Shropshire, West Midlands
Death 27 July 2011, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
(aged 82 years)
Family
Spouse: Mary Forbes Evans

Hilary Agard Evans (6 March 1929 – 27 July 2011) was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.

Biography

Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom and educated at St George’s School at Harpenden. After National Service in Palestine he went up to King’s College, Cambridge, to read English, followed by a Master’s at Birmingham University. He then spent some time as a private tutor before joining Mather & Crowther advertising agency as a copywriter in 1953.

In 1964 he and his wife Mary Evans (1936–2010) founded the Mary Evans Picture Library, an archive of historical illustrations. In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena. Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally shaped visionary experiences.

Reception

Evan’s Harlots, Whores & Hookers: A History of Prostitution (1979), was criticized by historian Vern Bullough as an “anecdotal collection of incidents, some true, some not so true, with little analysis of the sources from which they came and even less understanding of the historical forces.”

Skeptical researcher Philip J. Klass described Evans one of the “best informed and more sensible of the pro-UFOlogists.” Klass however, found it “regrettable” that Evans was the editor of the anthology UFOs, 1947-1987 published by the Fortean Times. According to Klass the book is unreliable and filled with pseudoscientific claims.

Christopher Scott in the New Scientist criticized Evans for his lack of scientific understanding. Scott noted that Evans was heavily biased and credulous for accepting reports of paranormal phenomena at face value. Evans in Intrusions (1982) had presented a photograph of the medium Eusapia Palladino allegedly levitating a table “without trickery”, but her hands or feet were not visible, nor two of the legs of the table. Scott concluded that Evans description of the photograph was “sheer fantasy”.

Books published

  • Harlots, Whores & Hookers: A History of Prostitution. Taplinger, 1979
  • Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  • The Evidence for UFOs. Wellingborough, Northampton, England: Aquarian Press, 1983.
  • Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors. Wellingborough, Northampton, England: Aquarian Press, 1984.
  • Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians. Wellingborough, Northampton: Aquarian Press, 1987.
  • Evans, Hilary, and John Spencer, eds. UFOs, 1947-1987: The 40-year Search for an Explanation Fortean Times, 1987.
  • Alternate States of Consciousness: Unself, Other-self, and Superself. Wellingborough, Northampton: Aquarian Press, 1989.
  • Frontiers of Reality, Aquarian Press, 1989
  • Evans, Hilary, and John Spencer, eds. Phenomena: Forty Years of Flying Saucers. New York: Avon Books, 1989.
  • Evans, Hilary, and Dennis Stacy, eds. UFO 1947-1997: Fifty Years of Flying Saucers. London: John Brown, 1997.
  • Evans, Hilary, and Robert Bartholomew, eds. Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behaviour. San Antonio, Texas: Anomalist Books, 2009.
  • Evans, Hilary “SLIders: The Enigma of Streetlight Interference” San Antonio, Texas: Anomalist Books, 2010
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