

Arthur Burns
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@ABurns_History
Prof. of Modern British History & Academic Director of Georgian Papers Programme at King's College London; Historian, pedestrian & pedant; views my own





This is James, Arthur's son, writing on behalf of the Burns family. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Arthur died peacefully in his sleep, at home, with his loved ones close by. He had been ill for the past three years, but faced his cancer with enormous courage and stoicism



New article in 'Transactions @royalhistsoc'. @jonewilson and @ardilley1979 consider 'The Incoherence of Empire', and the multiple, mutually contradictory assertions of British imperial sovereignty bit.ly/3D8ecjq #twitterstorians
Now available (open access ✅) for download: Nicola Phillips, The Politics of Libel: Thomas Erskine, Freedom of the Press, and Transatlantic Legal Culture, c. 1780–1830 doi.org/10.1017/S07382…


Looking forward to this on Monday! Follow links o attend. 2023 SAR Georgian Papers Programme Lecture : Shelburne’s Silence on Slavery: Action and Inaction in an Age of Revolution georgianpapers.com/2023/03/09/202…








Can we keep Joshua Reynolds's portrait of the young Polynesian man Omai in Britain? @lucymirandaward, author of The Empress and the English Doctor, argues it contributes to our understanding of 18th-century visitors: bit.ly/HistoriaInvasi… @OneworldNews @artfund #history
