1. Presidential Address: material turns in British history: III. Collecting: Colonial Bombay, Basra, Baghdad and the Enlightenment museum Margot C. Finn; 2. The Edict of Pîtres, Carolingian defence against the Vikings, and the origins of the Medieval castle Simon MacLean; 3. 'Acceptable truths' during the French Religious Wars Penny Roberts; 4. Monarchs, travellers and empire in the Pacific's Age of Revolutions Sujit Sivasundaram; 5. Children against slavery: juvenile agency and the sugar boycotts in Britain Kathryn Gleadle and Ryan Hanley; 6. Unfinished business: remembering the Great War between truth and reenactment Jay Winter; 7. The 'martyrdom of things': iconoclasm and its meanings in the Spanish Civil War Mary Vincent.