Hilary Evans, British picture librarian and author died he was , 82.

Hilary Evans and Mary Evans

Hilary Agard Evans  was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena  died he was , 82. .

(1929 – 27 July 2011)

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]

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.

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