Georgian Papers Programme News Today

Arthur Burns, who has died of cancer aged 60, was professor of modern British history at King’s College, London with a particular interest in the Church of England; he also played a central role in projects to make historical data more widely available to researchers via the internet.

The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It took five weeks past that point for its rejection of British authority to reach London.

George argues in a precis of a 1748 political treatise by Montesquieu, the French jurist, that slavery is equaly (sic) repugnant to the Civil Law as to the Law of Nature.

To pull down statues of giants who fought courageously for democracy is nothing less than the first step in a national suicide attempt

King George III has long been cast as the crazed despot who squandered the 13 American colonies. Yet, argues Andrew Roberts, this grim characterisation is the result not of hard facts but a historical stitch-up...

Colonial Williamsburg has renewed its commitment to independent scholarly research by joining William & Mary to financially support the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.