The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Presidential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939, King Henry I and Northern England, Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence, The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century, 'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402–1608, How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk and Théodore Vacquer and the Archaeology of Modernity in Haussmann's Paris.