Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 20 (Hardcover)

Editorial note; 1. Presidential address: French crossings I: tales of two cities Colin Jones; 2. Living like the laity? The negotiation of religious status in the cities of late medieval Italy Frances Andrews; 3. Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate Blair Worden; 4. Refashioning Puritan New England: the Church of England in British North America, c.1680?c.1770 Jeremy Gregory; 5. The institutionalisation of art in early Victorian England (The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture) Charles Saumarez Smith; 6. The Poor Inquiry and Irish society - a consensus theory of truth Niall O Ciosain; 7. Irish social thought and the relief of poverty, 1847?80 Peter Gray; 8. 'Facts notorious to the whole country': the political battle over Irish poor law reform in the 1860s Virginia Crossman; 9. The age of Prothero: British historiography in the long fin de siecle, 1870?1920 (The Prothero Lecture) Michael Bentley; Report of Council for 2009?2010.