Volume 8 of The Royal Historical Society Transactions contains essays based around the theme 'identities and empires'.The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 8 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.The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 8 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.The Royal Historical Society Transactions offer readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 8 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.Presidential address: Britain and the world in the eighteenth century: reshaping the Empire P. J. Marshall; 1. ThlÓH