Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 21 : Sixth Series (Hardcover)

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.