Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1881, Vol. 9: Being Papers Ordered to Be Printed by the Publishing Committee The Council wish to call the attention of the Society to the fact that they especially desire to encourage original investi gatz'ow'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Volume 9 of the RHS Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'oral history, memory and written tradition'.

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.