1. Presidential address: educating the nation: IV. Subject choice Peter Mandler; 2. The Cleopatras and the Jews Sarah Pearce; 3. The making of chronicles and the making of England: the Anglo-Saxon chronicles after Alfred Pauline Stafford; 4. Global climates, the 1257 mega-eruption of Samalas volcano, Indonesia, and the English food crisis of 1258 Bruce M. S. Campbell; 5. Old words and the new world: liberal education and the Franciscans in New Spain, 1536–1601 Aysha Pollnitz; 6. Migration from within and without: in the footsteps of Eastern Christians in the early modern world John-Paul A. Ghobrial; 7. Reflections of the political thought of the Irish revolution Richard Bourke; 8. Feminist political thought and activism in revolutionary Ireland, c.1880–1918 Senia Pašeta; 9. Democracy, sovereignty and unionist political thought during the revolutionary period in Ireland, c.1912–1922 Colin W. Reid; 10. Globalising and localising the Great War Adrian Gregory; 11. Languages of freedom in decolonising Africa Emma Hunter.