1. I wish to thank Dr. JoAnn H. Moran of Georgetown University for encouragement and advice, the editors of this journal for general support, and the National Endowment of the Humanities for a fellowship which made possible the final bibliographical search and revisions. I have made no effort to include material usually considered to be ‘intellectual history’. For an annual listing of historical publications, Elton, G. R., ed. Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History, produced for the Royal Historical Society, (Hassocks, Sussex, 1976-).Google Scholar

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