James Richard Evans (born 17 December 1975) is an English historian, author and television producer.
He went on to do doctoral studies at Oriel College where he wrote a D.Phil on the national question in the new state of Yugoslavia after World War I.
[2] Since university he worked on producing multiple television historical documentaries as well as helping to write the accompanying books for the series.
His first major book, Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England (2013)[3][4] used the primary source of a story he came across during a television project.
It tells the story of the failed 1553 voyage to reach China and the Spice Islands of the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands and the principals, Richard Chancellor, Sebastian Cabot and Sir Hugh Willoughby.