John Burrow was professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex from 1981 to 1995 and Professor of European Thought at Oxford from 1995 to 2000. His earlier books include Evolution and Society: a study in Victorian Social Theory (1966), A Liberal Descent: four Victorian Historians (1981), which won the Wolfson Prize for History, Gibbon (1984) and The Crisis of Reason: European Thought 1848-1914 (2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and in 2008 will be Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Williams College, Massachusetts. His latest book is A History of Histories (2007).
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