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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Sixth Series

Volume 21

Part of Royal Historical Society Transactions

Editor: Ian W. Archer, University of Oxford

Colin Jones, Averil Cameron, George Molyneaux, Alexandra Walsham, Harold J. Cook, Catherine Hall, Steve Sturdy, Barbara Taylor

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Date Published: January 2012
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781107019317

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume twenty-one of the sixth series includes the following articles: 'French crossings II: laughing over boundaries', 'Thinking with Byzantium', 'Why were some tenth-century English kings presented as rulers of Britain?', 'The Reformation of the generations: youth, age and religious change in England, c.1500–1700', 'Markets and cultures: medical specifics and reconfiguration of the body in early modern Europe', 'Troubling memories: nineteenth-century histories of the slave trade and slavery', 'The meaning of 'life': biology and biography in the work of J. S. Haldane (1860–1936)' and 'The demise of the asylum in late twentieth-century Britain: a personal history'. The volume also carries the Report of Council from 2010–11.
- Annual collection of major articles that represents some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians
- Covers a wide range of topics looking at both social and political contexts
- This is volume twenty-one of the sixth series
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- Date Published: January 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107019317
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 145 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Presidential address: French crossings II: laughing over boundaries Colin Jones
2. Thinking with Byzantium Averil Cameron
3. Why were some tenth-century English kings presented as rulers of Britain? (The Alexander Prize essay) George Molyneaux
4. The Reformation of the generations: youth, age and religious change in England, c.1500–1700 Alexandra Walsham
5. Markets and cultures: medical specifics and the reconfiguration of the body in early modern Europe Harold J. Cook
6. Troubling memories: nineteenth-century histories of the slave trade and slavery Catherine Hall
7. The meanings of 'life': biology and biography in the work of J. S. Haldane (1860–1936) Steve Sturdy
8. The demise of the asylum in late twentieth-century Britain: a personal history Barbara Taylor
9. Report of Council for 2010–11.
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Ian W. Archer, University of Oxford
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Colin Jones, Averil Cameron, George Molyneaux, Alexandra Walsham, Harold J. Cook, Catherine Hall, Steve Sturdy, Barbara Taylor