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.

2023年7月12日 · 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.

2023年7月19日 · John Burrow, who taught at Sussex from 1969 to 1995, died of cancer on 3 November [2009] at his home in Witney, Oxfordshire. Sussex was the first university in this country to offer degrees in intellectual history, and John was the first to occupy the chair in this branch of history created for him in 1981.

2011年3月1日 · 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’.

2011年3月1日 · 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 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.

2002年11月10日 · 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 personal identity, to explore the impact …

J. W. Burrow help here, since most of its members were not social evolutionists any-way; but some anthropology was "evolutionist in orientation" even be-fore the publication of the Origin of Species (Goldman, p. 55). Not only Herbert Spencer, …

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.