John Wyon Burrow, FBA (4 June 1935 in Southsea – 3 November 2009 in Witney, Oxfordshire) [1] was an English historian of intellectual history. [2] His published works include assessments of the Whig interpretation of history and of historiography generally.

Jul 12, 2023 · John Burrow was one of the leading British exponents of the history of historiography. In 1981, his book A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History.

May 23, 2014 · J. W. Burrow. Publication date 2008 Topics Historiography Publisher A.A. Knopf Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.3G . Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2014-05 …

Mar 1, 2011 · The late John Burrow, one of the most stimulating promoters of the distinctively interdisciplinary enterprise that is Intellectual History, was a vital member of what has become known as the ‘Sussex School’.

J. W. Burrow first outlines the intellectual context of the mid-nineteenth century, using ideas taken from physics, social evolution, and social Darwinism, and anxieties about modernity and …

John Burrow was one of the triumvirate who constituted the original ‘Sussex School’ in the study of modern intellectual history; it is, therefore, inevitable that schools of thought will provide one of the leitmotifs of my lecture today.

Mar 1, 2011 · The late John Burrow, one of the most stimulating promoters of the distinctively interdisciplinary enterprise that is Intellectual History, was a vital member of what has become known as the ‘Sussex School’.

John Wyon Burrow, FBA (4 June 1935 in Southsea – 3 November 2009 in Witney, Oxfordshire) was an English historian of intellectual history. His published works include assessments of the Whig interpretation of history and of historiography generally.

Nov 3, 2009 · June 4, 1935 in Southsea, d. November 3, 2009 in Witney, Oxfordshire; English historian of intellectual history; lecturer in European studies at the University of East Anglia until 1969; taught at the University of Sussex, specializing in Whig and and Burkean components of English liberalism)