The Last Chapter

The latest issue of Historical Research (vol. 89, no. 245) now online

Contents:

History and biography. Lawrence Goldman

Bede’s sources for his references to ‘hides’ in the Ecclesiastical History and the History of the Abbots. Richard Shaw

Anne of Kiev (c.1024–c.1075) and a reassessment of maternal power in the minority kingship of Philip I of France. Emily Joan Ward

 Magna Carta and the honour of Wallingford. Christopher Tilley

 The parliamentary mind and the mutable constitution. Catherine Chou

 Recording, reporting and printing the Cromwellian ‘kingship debates’ of 1657. Jonathan Fitzgibbons

 Reformative rhetoric and the exercise of corporal power: Alexander Maconochie’s regime at Birmingham prison, 1849–51. J. M. Moore

 The decline of the Liberal party in the heartland of England: the Liberals in Leicestershire, 1914–24. Gavin J. Freeman

 National Service: the University of London Library during the Second World War. K. E. Attar

 Colonial autonomy and Cold War diplomacy: Hong Kong and the imprisonment of Anthony Grey, 1967–9. James Fellows