Graham Evans

Graham Evans studied Modern & Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. Following graduation he pursued a very successful career in wholesale Financial Services before retiring to follow other pursuits. He is the Chair of the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society. He regularly delivers talks to local history groups around the country on subjects such as the Battle of Edgcote and Civil War Northamptonshire. In 2019 he organised a Study Day Conference for the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society at Abington Park Museum in Northampton on the Battle of Edgcote to mark its 550th anniversary. His book on the battle published to coincide with the anniversary was very well reviewed and received a Northamptonshire Heritage Forum award for best publication.

In addition to writing about local and military history, Graham is a well known blogger on military history and wargaming, covering the goings-on in his local group that meets in "Shedquarters". He has published several board games for the Society of Ancients and also "Northampton 1460" for the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society.

In 2019 he published his first set of tabletop wargame rules "To Ur is Human", covering battles in bronze age Mesopotamia. He has since published a further eight sets of rules, as of 2024, covering a wide range of subjects many of which can be regarded as fairly obscure.

Graham is married with two adult children and a very tolerant wife.

NB In the picture above he's the one on the left.

*Please note I am not the Graham Evans who writes history books about Poulton, nor am I the Graham Evans who is an illustrator, nor, indeed, am I the Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Wales. Who'd have thought there'd be so many of us?