Hilary Evans
Hilary Agard Evans (1929[1] – 27 July 2011)[2] was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.
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[edit] Biography
Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.[1] 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,[3] an archive of historical illustrations.[4] In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.[5][6]
Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally shaped visionary experiences.[7]
[edit] Books published
- 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.
- 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.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Ernest Kay The International authors and writers who's who, Volumes 2001-2002, Cambridge, 7th ed., 1976 p. 180
- ^ Coleman, Loren. "Hilary Evans Obituary". Cryptomundo. http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/evans-obit/.
- ^ Mary Evans Picture Library FAQs
- ^ Lydia Thornley & Valentine Evans, Mary Evans Picture Library: visual documentation of the past, London : The Beacon Press, 1995
- ^ Evans, Hilary, and John Spencer, eds. Phenomena: Forty Years of Flying Saucers. New York: Avon Books, 1989, p.409
- ^ David Morrow, Close encounters of the street lamp kind, The Independent Life & Style, Thursday, 31 August 1995
- ^ Jerome Clark, Encyclopedia of strange and unexplained physical phenomena, Thomson Gale Press, 1993, ISBN 081038843X ISBN 978-0810388437 p.329
