Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 9
Sixth Series

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

9780521772860, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 December 1999

385 pages
22.5 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.58 kg

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.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]