Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13

'… a real feast of historical research.' Open History

• Presidential address: England and the continent in the ninth century: Vikings and others Janet L. Nelson; According to ancient custom: the restoration of altars in the Restoration Church of England Kenneth Fincham; Einhard: the sinner and the saints Julia M. H. Smith; Migrants, immigrants and welfare from the Old Poor Law to the welfare state David Feldman; Jack Tar and the gentleman officer: the role of uniform in shaping the class- and gender-related identities of British naval personnel, 1930–1939 Quintin Colville; Writing fornication: medieval Leyrwite and its historians Judith Bennett; Resistance, reprisal and community in occupied France, 1941–1944 Robert Gildea; History and architecture: an introduction Clyde Binfield; Houses as museums: the case of the Yorkshire wool textile industry Stephen Caunce; The architect, history, and architectural history Nicola Coldstream; History and architectural history E. C. Fernie; The conservation movement: a cult of the modern age Miles Glendinning; The politics of collecting: the early aspirations of the National Trust, 1883–1913 Melanie Hall; Where now the architect? Neil Jackson; Women using building in seventeenth-century England: a question of sources? Anne Laurence; The Hotel de Ville at Lyons: civic improvement and its meanings in seventeenth-century France Judi Loach; A Cubist history: the department store in late-nineteenth-century Paris Robert Proctor; Delusions of national grandeur: reflections on the intersection of architecture and history in the Palace of Westminster 1789–1834 Sean Sawyer; The gender of the place: building and landscape in women-authored texts in 1790s England William Stafford; Telling tales: anecdotal insights into the West End house c.1765–c.1785 Rachel Stewart; Investigating the bigger picture. A case study of the Jacobean Great Barn at Vaynol Park Katie Withersby Lench; Of Shells and Shadows: a memoir of Auschwitz Robert Jan van Pelt.