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 eight of the sixth series takes the theme 'identities and empires' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by Professor P. J. Marshall, 'Russia, Imperial and Soviet Identities' by Dominic Lieven, and 'Frontiers of the Mind: Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia' by A. J. Stockwell.