Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 7

1. Presidential address: the Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100–1400: IV language and historical mythology R. R. Davies; 2. The limits of totalitarianism: God, state and society in the GDR Mary Fulbrook; 3. British politeness and the progress of western manners: an eighteenth-century enigma Paul Langford; 4. History as destiny: Gobineau, H. S. Chamberlain and Spengler Michael Biddiss; 5. Constructing the past in the early Middle Ages: the case of the Royal Frankish Annals Rosamond McKitterick; 6. England, Britain and the audit of War (The Prothero Lecture) Kenneth O. Morgan; 7. Against 'Englishness': English culture and the limits to Rural Nostalgia, 1850–1940 Peter Mandler; The Eltonian Legacy: 8. The Cromwellian decade: authority and consent C. S. L. Davies; 9. Place and the public finance R. W. Hoyle; 10. The parliament of England Pauline Croft; 11. Thomas Cromwell's doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty Conrad Russell; 12. Politics Simon Adams; 13. G. R. Elton as a legal historian Clive Holmes; 14. Religion Christopher Haigh; 15. Sir Geoffrey Elton and the practice of history Quentin Skinner; 16. Elton on the English: a discussion Patrick Wormald, John Gillingham, Colin Richmond; Report of the Council for 1996–1997; Officers of the Council 1997; Publications of the Royal Historical Society.