The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume ten of the sixth series takes the theme 'the British-Irish Union of 1801' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by P. J. Marshall, 'Court cases and Legal Arguments in England c.1066–1166' by John Hudson, 'The Union in European Context' by William Doyle, 'Alliances and Misalliances in the politics of the Union' by L. M. Cullen, 'Ireland, India and the Empire, 1780–1914' by C. A. Bayley and 'The Divergence of England: The Growth of the English Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' by E. A. Wrigley.