Author name: Hazel Burgess

Hazel Burgess is an Australian researcher and editor known for her work on Thomas Paine, particularly for compiling and editing "Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings", which presents lesser-known political pieces, letters, and poetry, offering deeper insight into the revolutionary pamphleteer's complex life beyond his famous works like Common Sense. Burgess spent years uncovering these writings, revealing glimpses of Paine's private self, his financial motivations, and even challenging perceptions by exploring his controversial stances, like potential involvement with slavery, to provide a more nuanced historical view.

“Will Cobbett, with Thomas Paine’s bones” is an etching by James Sayers showing William Cobbett charicatured carrying the coffin of Thomas Paine on his back on his back. Image comes from the a collection of pamphlets, “1736–1829 Sammelbands including subjects on Famous Dwarfs, Pro-Tory, Anti-Jacobin, Anti-Thomas Paine Sentiment, etc.” – link

An Extended History of the Remains of Thomas Paine 

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Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2007 Number 4 Volume 8

The following saga combines the most comprehensive account yet of the fate of Thomas Paine’s remains, the intriguing story of the recent discovery of a vestige of those, and the recounting of a bizarre, scientific endeavour to validate that piece. It is a tale of fact, probability and possibility.

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Portrait of George Chalmers (Francis Oldys) in 1824

A Small Addition To The Writings On Thomas Paine (1), Quakers,

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Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 2001 Number 3 Volume 5

From the time that his first biographer, Francis Oldys, adopted Thomas Paine, the son of a Thetford stay-maker, as a subject, all others have accepted the fact that he fathered no children. Recent examination of records, from a long time past, suggest that he might have done. 

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