FIONA BATEMAN MA Course Co-ordinator, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland ESTHER BREITENBACH Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh, UK RUTH COMPTON BROUWER Lecturer in History, the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada HILARY M. CAREY Associate Professor of History, the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia PETER CLAYWORTH Historian, the Head Office of the Department of Conservation, New Zealand PETER CUNICH Lecturer in History, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China CATHERINE HALL Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London, UK JOHN MACKENZIE Honorary Research Professor at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Environmental History and Policy, the University of Stirling, UK JOHN MCALEER Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK ANNE O'BRIEN Lecturer in History, the University of New South Wales, Australia TADHG ÓHANNRACHÁIN Lecturer in Early Modern History, University College Dublin, Ireland ELIZABETH E. PREVOST Assistant Professor of History, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA SHURLEE SWAIN Professor of History, School of Historical Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, Kings College London and Kingston University,UK JOHN WOLFFE Professor of Religious History, the Faculty of Arts, The Open University, UK