Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13
Sixth Series

Volume 13 (Sixth Series), publishing some of the best historical research by world-renowned historians.

9780521830768, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 December 2003

436 pages
22.5 x 14.6 x 3 cm, 0.639 kg

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

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. Volume thirteen of the sixth series includes the following articles: Presidential Address: England and the Continent in the ninth century: Vikings and Others; According to ancient custom: the restoration of altars in the Restoration Church of England; Einhard: the sinner and the saints; Migrants, immigrants and welfare from the Old Poor Law to the Welfare State; Jack Tar and the gentleman officer: the role of uniform in shaping the class- and gender-related identities of British naval personnel, 1930–1939; Writing fornication: medieval Leyrwite and its historians; Resistance, reprisal and community in Occupied France, 1941–1944. There is also a themed section which looks at 'Architecture and 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.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX], Social & cultural history [HBTB], British & Irish history [HBJD1], European history [HBJD], Historiography [HBAH], Architecture [AM]