The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume nine of the sixth series takes the theme 'oral history, memory and written tradition' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by P. J. Marshall, 'Thatcherism: an historical perspective' by E. H. H. Green and 'Making the most of memories: the empirical and subjective value of oral history' by Alistair Thompson.
1. Presidential address: Britain and the world in the eighteenth century: II, Britons and Americans P. J. Marshall; 2. Thatcherism: an historical perspective E. H. H. Green; 3. General de Gaulle and his enemies: anti-Gaullism in France since 1940 Julian Jackson; 4. The politics of Bible translation in Georgian Britain Neil W. Hitchin; 5. Narratives of triumph and rituals of submission; Charlemagne's mastering of Bavaria Stuart Airlie; 6. The Middle Ages through modern eyes: a historical problem Otto Gerhard Oexle; 7. Making mercantilism work: London merchants and Atlantic trade in the seventeenth century Nuala Zahedieh; Part I. Oral History, Memory and Written Tradition: 8. Oral history, memory and written tradition: an introduction Patricia M. Thane; 9. Land, language and memory in Europe 700-1100 Patrick J. Geary; 10. Remembering, forgetting and inventing: attitudes to the past in England at the end of the first Viking age Sarah Foot; 11. Gender and authority of oral witnesses in Europe (800-1300) Elisabeth van Houts; 12. Memory and tradition in Sienese political life in the fifteenth century Christine Shaw; 13. Remembering the past in early modern England: oral and written tradition Adam Fox; 14. Custom and the social organization of writing in early modern England Andy Wood; 15. Resisting French Resistance H. R. Kedward; 16. Anthropology, history and personal narratives: reflections of writing 'African voices, African lives' Pat Caplan; 17. Making the most of memories: the empirical and subjective value of oral history Alistair Thompson; Part II. Medieval Communities: 18. The 'Crusader' Community at Antioch: the impact of interaction with Byzantium and Islam T. S. Asbridge; 19. At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia Leonard E. Scales; Report of Council for 1998-1999; Officers and Council 1999; Publications of the Royal Historical Society.
