Professor of Modern British History at King's College London, Arthur Burns is Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society, and is co-editor of the series Studies in Modern British Religious History published by Boydell and Brewer. He is the honorary vice-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. 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.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.