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Edson Burton is a writer, film programme-curator and performer based in Bristol, England. His academic specialisms include: Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black History in the USA, Cultural continuities between Africa & the New World. He is second-generation African Caribbean descent. Dr Burton recieved his PhD in History from the University of the West of England under the supervision of Dr Madge Dresser.

In 2006, Edson Burton contributed to Bristol Radical Network History Week alongside Richart Hart in a talk on Slavery: Resistance & Rebellion 1. Edson presented the Video Nation feature on Bristol’s Stapleton Road (2010). Dr Edson Burton has been a consultant and coordinator for HLF and Arts Council history projects in Bristol including contributing to a study of Bristol's Old Market ward titled 'Vice & Virtue' (2014), and Black South West Network’s 'Race Through the Generations'. He curated the Afrofuturist season (2014) as associate of Bristol's Watershed Cinema, which formed part of the BFI'S Fear and Wonder Sc-Fi season. Dr Edson Burton television appearances include the Hairy Bikers series Pubs that Made Britain (2015), Books that Made Britain: Bristol (2016) There is no Black in the Union Jack (2017) and Lost Civilizations Series 1: The Remains of Slavery (2017) and The Antiques Road Show (2018).

Edson Burton sits on the board of the public art producer Situations Ltd and of Afrika Eye Film Festival. He is an active member of South West Midlands Hub film programming initiative, Come the Revolution.He is a founding member of Kiki Bristol and was a member of the Bristol Black Writer’s group.

In 2022, Edson Burton led the University of Bristol's Black History Revisited short course designed primarily to help mature students progress to a degree in the History Department.

Publications

 * Seasoned (2009)
 * Deacon (2021)

Sources

https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/edson-burton

https://wno.org.uk/profile/edson-burton

http://www.onetribetalent.co.uk/talent/edson-burton/

https://www.futurecityfestival.co.uk/speakers/edson-burton/

https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/after-slavery/effects-on-bristol/cultural-contributions/writers-poets

https://bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/mini-series/unfinished-business