Od 1978 roku należy do Królewskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego. Od 1993 roku jest członkiem Akademii Brytyjskiej. W 2012 roku otrzymał od królowej Elżbiety II tytuł szlachecki.
Wybrane publikacje The Feminist Movement In Germany, 1894–1933, 1976. German Women and the Triumph of Hitler, 1976 The Feminists: Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia, 1840–1920, 1977. Society And Politics In Wilhelmine Germany edited by R. J. Evans, London: Croom Helm, 1980, 1978. The History of European Women: A Critical Survey of Recent Research, 1980 The German Family: Essays on the Social History of The Family in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany, 1981. The German Working Class, 1888–1933: The Politics Of Everyday Life, 1982. The German Peasantry: Conflict And Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, 1986. The German Unemployed: Experiences And Consequences Of Mass Unemployment From The Weimar Republic To The Third Reich, 1987. Rethinking German History: Nineteenth-Century Germany And The Origins Of The Third Reich, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987. Comrades And Sisters: Feminism, Socialism, And Pacifism In Europe, 1870–1945, 1987. The New Nationalism and the Old History: Perspectives on the West German Historikerstreit, 1987 Death In Hamburg: Society And Politics In