Arthur Burns

Professor of Modern British History at King's College London, Arthur Burns is Academic Director of the Georgian Papers Programme, and is co-editor of the series Studies in Modern British Religious History published by Boydell and Brewer. He is the president of the Church of England Record Society.

Most of his writing has concentrated on the modern history of the Church of England, although he has also published on political reform in nineteenth-century Britain and walking. His most ambitious academic work has been as one of three directors of the Clergy of the Church of England Database (www.theclergydatabase.org.uk) which is gradually making freely available online the career details of all Anglican clergy in England and Wales from the Reformation to the mid nineteenth century. He is currently writing a book on the extraordinary tradition of Christian socialism at Thaxted in Essex inaugurated by Conrad Noel, and directing a collaboration with the royal archives to digitize the royal archives for the Hanoverian monarchs. He is a former vice-president of the Royal Historical Society

In 2004 the history of St Paul's Cathedral that he coedited with Derek Keene and Andrew Saint was awarded the William Berger Prize for British Art History.