Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society

Volume 8 of The Royal Historical Society Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'identities and empires'.

Volume 9 of the RHS Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'oral history, memory and written tradition'.

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research.

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Potential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850-1914; Land, Freedom and the Making of the Medieval West; The Origins of the English Hospital (The Alexander Prize Essay); Trust and Distrust: A Suitable Theme for Historians?; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination; Africa and the Birth of the Modern World; The Break-Up of Britain? Scotland and the End of the Empire (The Prothero Lecture); Report of Council for 2005-2006.

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The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Presidential address: England and the Continent in the Ninth Century, The Triumph of the Doctors: Medical Assistance to the Dying, c. 1570-1720, Marmoutier and its Serfs and the Eleventh Century, Housewives and Servants in Rural England 1440-1650, Putting the English Reformation on the Map, The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the Harvest Failure of 1891, A 'Sinister and Retrogressive' Proposal: Irish Women's Opposition to the 1937 Draft Constitution