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 and "Thatcherism: an historical perspective" by E. H. H. Green.

The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume six of the sixth series, first published in 1997, includes: 'The Peoples of Ireland, 1110 1400: III. Laws and Customs', the third Presidential Address from Rees Davies; the winner of the Alexander Prize, 'Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France (1385 1422)', Rachel Gibbons; and the 1995 Prothero Lecture An Airier Aristocracy: The Saints of War', Christopher Holdsworth. Also included,...

Articles in Volume 12 include: England and the Continent in the Ninth Century: I, Ends and Beginnings; Travellers and the Oriental City, c.1840-1920; The Myths of the South Sea Bubble; The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain. There is also a collection of papers on 'English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue, c.1400-c.1900', which includes the following papers: From Civilitas to Civility: Codes of Manners in Medieval and Early Modern England; Topographies of Politeness; Polite Consumption: Shopping in Eighteenth-Century England.