James H. Burns

James H. Burns

The archive contains documents from J. H. Burn's academic career, including various lecture series, unpublished research articles, teaching materials, undergraduate essays, research and conference papers, administrative papers, correspondence, and the text of all six Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1994.

James Henderson Burns (1921-2012) was a leading historian of European political thought, specializing in the Reformation, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the works of Jeremy Bentham, the eighteenth-century British jurist and reformer. Burns was known for his many years of teaching at University College, London, and his long tenure as an editor of History of Political Thought journal and the Collected Works of Bentham.

Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums