Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 10

'A serious academic read then, well written, with a lot to ponder on.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Presidential address: Britain and the world in the eighteenth century: III Britain and India P. J. Marshall; Enlightenment and revolution in Naples John Robertson; Kwame Nkrumah and the chiefs, the fate of the 'natural rulers' under Nationalist goverments Richard Rathbone; Bartolus of Sassoferrato and free cities Magnus Ryan; Court cases and legal arguments in England, c.1066–1166 John Hudson; The divergence of England: the growth of the English economy in the seventeenth centuries E. A. Wrigley; Regional diversity in the later Russian Empire David Saunders; The Union in the European context William Doyle; The Union in British history J. G. A. Pocock; Britain and the Union, 1797–1801 Peter Jupp; Alliances and misalliances in the politics of the Union L. M. Cullen; The Catholics and the Union Patrick Geoghegan; Popular politics in Ireland and the Act of Union James Kelly; The Irish Peerage and the Unions, 1700–1971 A. P. W. Malcolmson; The Union and the Military, 1801–c.1830 Allan Blackstock; Politics, public finance and The British-Irish Act of Union of 1801 Trevor McCavery; Ireland, India and the Empire, 1780–1914 C. A. Bayley; Reconsidering the Irish Act of Union S. J. Connolly.