19th century European thinkers including John Stuart Mill, Mikhail Bakunin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Richard Wagner, and Oscar Wilde. Burrow's last major work (his magnum opus) A History of Histories (2007) covers the entire 2,500-year period from Herodotus and Thucydides to trends in late 20th century history, including Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Jean Froissart, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Jules Michelet, William Hickling Prescott, and Francis Parkman. In 1958 he married Diane Dunnington; they had one son, Lawrence, and one daughter, Francesca. The J. W. Burrow papers, catalogued posthumously by Peter Xavier Price between 2010 and 2012, are now housed at The Keep, Brighton. Works Evolution and Society (Cambridge University Press, 1966) read online A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge University Press, 1981) read online review That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (with Stefan Collini and Donald Winch) (Cambridge University Press, 1983) read online review Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (Clarendon Press, 1988) read online The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914 (Yale University Press, 2000) read online A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (New York: Knopof, 2007) read online See also Intellectual History Notes External links The Daily Telegraph, ‘Professor John Burrow’, 27 December 2009. Donald Winch, ‘’, University of Sussex. 1935 births 2009 deaths People from Southsea People educated at Exeter School Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of Sussex 20th-century English historians Intellectual historians Fellows of the British Academy