Colin McEvedy
Colin Peter McEvedy | |
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Born | Salford, Lancashire, England | 6 June 1930
Died | 1 August 2005 London, England | (aged 75)
Occupation(s) | Historian, demographer |
Spouses |
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Children | 3, including Allegra McEvedy |
Colin Peter McEvedy (6 June 1930 – 1 August 2005) was a British
Early life
Colin Peter McEvedy was born in
Career
McEvedy's profession was psychiatry, in which he had a distinguished career. He became perhaps better known, though, as a historian and demographer, and certainly so by the public at large. Between 1961 and 2002 he produced a number of historical atlases which, unlike most such atlases, feature fixed base-maps; in most cases, each atlas uses a single principal base-map, which is shown repeatedly, at many dates, as the atlas goes along, thus illustrating changes over the ages, from
He died in London, following a diagnosis of terminal myelofibrosis.
Family life
McEvedy had three daughters,[2] Binky, Flora, and Allegra and a son, Phillip.[3] Flora McEvedy is the author of The Step-Parents' Parachute, published by Piatkus Books in 2009.[4] His youngest daughter, Allegra McEvedy, is a noted chef, co-founded the Leon Restaurants chain, and was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
Publications
Penguin Historical Atlases
- The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (1961) ISBN 0-14-070822-7
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (1992) ISBN 0-14-051249-7
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History (1992)
- The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (1967) ISBN 0-14-051151-2
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (2002) ISBN 0-14-051348-5
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History (2002)
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (1972) ISBN 0-14-051153-9
- The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (1982) ISBN 0-14-051154-7
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History (2002) ISBN 0-14-051504-6
- Revised as: The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History (2002)
- The Penguin Atlas of North American History (1988) ISBN 0-14-051128-8
- The Penguin Atlas of African History (1980, 2nd ed. 1995) ISBN 0-14-051321-3
- The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific (1998) ISBN 0-14-025428-5
The Atlas of World History (with Sarah McEvedy)
- From the Beginning to Alexander the Great (1970) ISBN 0-298-79125-0
- The Classical World (1973) ISBN 0-298-79126-9
- The Dark Ages (1972) ISBN 0-298-79127-7
Unpublished Volumes:
- The Medieval World
- The European Expansion
- Revolutions
- Colonial Empires
- The Modern Age
Other Books
- The Atlas of World Population History (with Richard Jones) (1978) ISBN 0-14-051076-1
- Rise of the World's Cities (1984) ISBN 0-87196-773-1
- World History Factfinder (1984) ISBN 0-02-583190-9
- Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization,ISBN 978-1-84614-427-1(hardcover), Allen Lane (imprint of Penguin Books, UK), Penguin Press/Classics (US).
Articles
- "The Bubonic Plague" Scientific American February 1988
References
- ^ "ELGAR: Electronic Gateway to Archives at Rylands :: Display in Full". Archives.li.man.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ Obituary: "Colin McEvedy", British Medical Journal, 2005, 331:847
- ^ Obituary: "Dr Colin Mcevedy", The Independent, 30 August 2005
- ^ The Step-Parent's Parachute at amazon.co.uk Retrieved 28 April 2010
- ^ Tonkin, Boyd, "Cities of the Classical World By Colin McEvedy", The Independent (newspaper), United Kingdom, 2012 January 5, book review, Arts section.
External links
- Obituary in The Independent
- Obituary in The Times
- Obituary in the British Medical Journal
- Colin McEvedy at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalogue records