Scholarly panels were convened last year on either side of the Atlantic to assess the work and legacy of Lawrence Stone, Dodge Professor of History (emeritus) at Princeton University, who died on June 16, 1999. The first of the panels, which took place in June 2000 at the Eighteenth Century Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research, ranged eclectically over the personal and scholarly dimensions of Stone's contribution to the field of history in an attempt to define the nature of his legacy. Dr. Susan Whyman vividly described her experience of Stone as a graduate teacher. Timothy Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire), in the critical spirit that Stone would have appreciated, dissected the liberal and bourgeois commitments underpinning Stone's work on sexuality. David Cannadine (IHR) chronicled the influences on Stone, from his education at Charterhouse and Oxford to his fruitful encounter with the French Annales school. A lively discussion ensued, sparked in part by Professor Cannadine's proposition that most great books, Stone's among others, were wrong. Professor Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway and Bedford, University of London), the organizer of the session, brought the discussion to a thought-provoking conclusion by asking the audience to vote on whether the dramatic shifts over time that Stone had set out to describe (such as the `crisis of the aristocracy' or `rise of affective individualism') were possible or appropriate subjects for today's historian. The vote was split.

The second panel was a plenary session of the NACBS annual meeting last October in Pasadena, chaired by James Rosenheim, (Texas A & M). David Cannadine once again contributed an overview, while the other papers focused on specific works. Paul Seaver (Stanford University) reviewed The Causes of the English Revolution (1972), conveying a sense of Stone's engagement with other disciplines (sociology and political science) and with the urgent political issues (modernity and world revolution) of his time. Dror Wahrman (Indiana University) grappled with the relationship of Stone's use of quantitative methods to his claims for the `revival of narrative' through a close analysis of An Open Elite?, the book on the eighteenth century aristocracy co-authored with Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone in 1984. Rachel Weil explored the life and afterlife of Family, Sex and Marriage (1977) trying to account for its ability to inspire rage as well as its continuing appeal.

If one conclusion emerged from both panels, it was that Stone's legacy lies not in the founding of a school of thought but is rather a matter of spirit: of an endless appetite for ideas, of an embrace of critical engagement even when the criticism was directed at himself, and of the combination of generosity and rigor that enabled Stone to nurture students and colleagues whose approaches differed radically from his own. He is sorely missed.

submitted by Rachel Weil, Cornell University

Graduate Paper Award went to Scott Moir, University of Guelph, for "Kirk and Control: The Impact on Women and the Family in Post-Reformation Scotland"

Honorable mention went to Matthew P. Szromba, Loyola University of Chicago for "Patterns of Criminal Behavior and Justice within the Verge of the English Royal Household, 1660-1750: A Quantitative Study"

Other papers read:

"Traveling Players under Henry VIII and Edward VI"
James H. Forse and Christine Williams, Bowling Green State University

"John Bale's Kynge Johan as Tudor Propaganda"
Gerald D. George, Bowling Green State University

"John Bale and the Reshaping of Late Medieval Drama for Protestant Purposes"
Mary Kat Riddell, Bowling Green State University

"The Market Place as a Cultural Site: Public Penance, c.1250-1600"
Dave Postles, University of Leicester

"Bodies and Souls in Early Modern Norwich: Practices and Principles of the Public Punishment of Misdemeanors, 1560-1700"
Paul Griffiths, University of Leicester

"Anne Bront : Eighteenth-Century Connections"
Kristin A. LeVeness, St. John's University, New York

"Contesting Public and Private Spheres in Shirley"
Tara McGann, Columbia University

"Waiting at Home: The Limits of Domestic Ideology in Wood's East Lynne"
Kathleen Malony, Purdue University

"The Return of the English Crusaders, 1095-1195"
Theodore D. Petro, University of Cincinnati

"Confessor, Martyr, Warrior-Saint: The Cult of Saint George in England at the end of the Eleventh Century"
James B. MacGregor, University of Cincinnati

"The Kinship Network of Henry I and the Expansion of the Congregation of Tiron in the Twelfth Century"
Ruth Harwood Cline, Georgetown University

"Aphra Behn and Thomas Southerne: Rape, Slavery, and Oroonoko"
Susan Wiseman, Birkbeck College, University of London

"Lucretia's Legacy: Rape in Restoration Drama, 1660-1714"
Deborah Hughes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"George Etherege's Dormant: The Rake Figure and the Carnivalesque"
Mardy Philippian, Jr., Purdue University

"Imperial Ceremony in a Domestic Context: Victoria, Edward VII and the Indian Honor Guard, 1876-1910"
A. Martin Wainwright, University of Akron

"The African Institution of London: Africa and British Anti-Slavery, 1807-1827"
Wayne Ackerson, Salisbury State University

"Women and Republicanism: The Case of Catherine Macaulay"
Philip Hicks, Saint Mary's College

"Music, Meaning, and Politics--The 1784 Handel Commemoration Reconsidered"
Thomas McGeary, Champaign, IL

"Refusing the Royal Pardon: Male and Female Convicted Thieves and the Reactions of the Court, 1787-1789"
Lynn MacKay, Brandon University

"Lousy `Glibbs' and White `Turbents:' Seventeenth Century English Travelers and Perceptions of Foreign Cleanliness"
Anna Suranyi, UCLA

"`In the barbarous regions to be traversed:' British Travelers in Montenegro"
Natasha Margulis, University of Cincinnati

"She went Where?!!"
Joan Gaughan, University of Michigan

"Before the Great Rapprochement: Anglo-American Relations and the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean, 1895"
Kenneth Blume, Albany College

"Crusading Against the Cartel: Power, Profits, and Patriotism in the Global Information Market, 1927-1934"
Alexander Nalbach, Wayne State University

"The Necessary Relationship: The Changing Nature of the Anglo-American Relationship"
Phyllis L. Soybel, Elmhurst College

"Gender and Neo-Whiggism: Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Politics"
Anna Clark, University of Minnesota

"Editing H-Albion"
Richard Gorrie, University of Guelph

"The History, Practice, and Future of Editing Electronic Reviews"
Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University

"H-Albion Yesterday and Today"
Terry L. Taylor, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA

"`Keep the Widower Waking:' Vulnerable Masculinity in Early Modern England"
Barbara J. Todd, University of Toronto

"Cross-dressing Women and Ideas of Masculinity in England, 1578-1835"
Ed Burton, University of Cincinnati

"Honor and Martial Culture in Late Tudor and Stuart England"
Roger Manning, Cleveland State University

"James Bryce, Alfred Zimmern and the Classical Apology for Empire"
J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma

"`How Rome Dwarfs Everything!' Stanley Baldwin and the Classical Tradition"
Robert Butler, Elmhurst College

"`A Terrible Tangle' (Harold Macmillan): The Churchill Government's Transport Bill, 1952"
Charles Loft, Queen Mary add Westfield College, University of London

"Queenship and the Building of Empire in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon"
Marta VanLandingham, Purdue University

"Henrietta Maria: Establishing the Role of Consort"
Caroline Hibbard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"`Wisdom Hath Built Her House:' Gender and the Politics of Panegyric at the Court of the Early Romanovs"
Elizabeth Zelensky, Georgetown University

"Wooing Erin: The British Comic Press and Feminine Images of Ireland, 1879-1882"
Michael de Nie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Other and Brother: The Idea of the Jew In Imperial Britain"
Eric Reisenauer, University of South Carolina, Sumter

"Two Paths: Cole vs. Ruskin and the Terms of English Design"
Thomas Prasch, Washburn University

"The Gendered Poetics of Tragedy in Hamlet"
Katharine Goodland, CUNY-Staten Island

"`Such as we are made of, such we be': Courtship Ritual and Gender in Twelfth Night"
Tamara Agnew, University of Michigan

"Content, Form and Gender in As You Like It"
Neal Migan, Purdue University

"London in Flames: Rumor, Retribution and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham"
Tom Cogswell, University of California, Riverside

"Female Spirituality in Pre-Reformation Edinburgh: Janet Rynd and the Magdalen Chapel"
Mairi Cowan, University of Toronto

"Kirk and Control: The Impact on Women and the Family in Post-Reformation Scotland"
Janay Nugent, Tri-University

"`This Phaeton cast downe:' The Earl of Essex and Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject"
Kevin Lindberg, The Ohio State University

"From Sejanus to Tiberius; Sir John Eliot and the Evolution of Anti-Monarchic Sentiment in Parliament"
Jeffrey D. Burson, George Washington University

"The Re-Presentation of Monarchy at the Stuart Restoration: The Image of the King"
Carolyn A. Edie, University of Illinois at Chicago

"My Difficulties in Management:' Philanthropy, Professionalism, and Business in Isabel Fry's Diaries (1911-1936)"
Heather Julien, University of Louisville

"The Influence of the Theater on Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Novelists"
Nora Nachumi, Indiana State University

"Heroines or Hostesses: The Political Woman in British Fiction of the Reform Era"
Lawrence Poston, University of Illinois at Chicago

"London's Poor Survivors of War: Disabled Veterans and War Widows, 1600-1800"
Geoffrey L. Hudson, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine

"Five Shillings and a New Pair of Shoes: Settlement Law and the Deportation of Pregnant Women in London, 1662-1995"
Kimberly Kippen, University of Toronto

"Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse: A Study of Medical Provision Under the Old Poor Law"
Kevin Siena, University of Toronto

"The Transition from Women's History to Gender History: A Cost Analysis"
Melinda Zook, Purdue University

"A Body of Knowledge vs. an Intellectual Perspective: Women and Gender History"
Hilda Smith, University of Cincinnati

"The Modernist and the Death of thee Victorian Mother"
Maura K. Grady, University of California, Davis

"Steven's `(Un)natural' Body: The Child Lesbian in The Well of Loneliness"
Barbara Tilley, University of Florida

"Lay Evangelism and English Catholicism 1570-1640"
Margaret Sena, Princeton University

"The Politics of Predestination: The Enforcement of the Royal Prohibition in Laud's London"
David R. Como, University of Maryland

"Milton: Renaissance and Restoration"
Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan-American

"Leadership Transformed: Grenville and Walsingham in the House of Lords"
Michael McCahill, Brooks School

"Wellington and his Leadership of the House of Lords"
Richard W. Davis, Washington University

"Constitutional History as National Identity, 1870-1914"
Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona

"Reversing Homer and Petrarch: An Intertextual Reading of Sir Philip Sidney's Helen in the New Arcadia"
Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, New York University

"The Petrarchan Frame of Florio's Montaigne Essais"
Christopher D. Johnson, New York University

"Parodying Petrarch: Convention and Sincerity in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania"
Sue Starke, Monmouth University

"Medieval Designs: William Morris, Late Victorian Socialism and the Decorative Arts"
Rachel Teukolsky, University of California, Berkeley

"A Seer in a Sightseen Venice: Ruskin, the Organic Republic, and the Rubble"
Jennifer Scappetone, University of California, Berkeley

"Adventure in Babylon: Marie Corelli's Quest for Authenticity in Ancient History"
Alisha Siebers, University of California, Berkeley

"The Language of Complaint: Popular Songs as Evidence of Social Tension 1700-1830"
Robin Ganev, York University

"Virtuoso Culture and the History of Taste in Early Modern England"
Brian Cowan, University of Sussex

"Policing the Streets of 18th Century London"
Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield

"English Newsbooks and the Irish Massacres of 1641"
David O'Hara, McGill University

"`I get by with a little help from my friends:' The Catholic Powers and Gunrunning to the Irish Confederates, October 22, 1641-September 15, 1643"
Peter Edwards, Surrey University

"`Fitted for Desperation': Honour and Treachery in Yorkshire's Parliamentary Command, 1642-43"
Andrew J. Hopper, University of East Anglia

"`The Flight of the Muses:' Irish Unionist Poetry in the Fin de Sicle"
Katy Plowright, Oxford University

"Salutary Bands: Catholic Emancipation and its Effects on National Historical Discourse in Lingard and Banin"
Dominick Tracy, University of California, Davis

"Stereotype, Hybridity and Irishness: Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl"
Margaret McPeake, University of Miami

"A Clearing in the Jungle: Bungalows, Servants, and the Burden of Empire"
Steven Patterson, University of Memphis

"Imperial Performance: Anglo-Indian Theatricals and the Staging of British Rule"
Abby Wolf, Harvard University

"Co-operation, Contest, and Friendship: Margaret Cousins's and Muthulakshmi Reddy's Journalism in India"
Michelle Tusan, Stanford University

"The Politics of Poetry: W.B. Yeats and the Irish Revolution 1912-22"
Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford

"Public Space/Private Bodies: Lesbians and the Workplace in Post War Britain"
Rebecca Jennings, University of Manchester

"`With no station and no trains, we might as well be dead!' Closing Britain's Branch Lines in the 1960s"
Charles Loft, Westminster College

"John Peel: Broadcasting Counter-Cultural Elitism"
Chad Martin, Stanford University

"Chaucer's Widows"
Laurel Amtower, San Diego State University

"Single Women in Malory"
Dorsey Armstrong, California State University, Long Beach

"Shakespeare's Greasy Joans"
Jerald W. Spotswood, Eastern New Mexico University

"Single Women in Jacobean Drama"
Adrienne L. Eastwood, University of California, San Diego

"Forever Wilt Thou Love and (S)he be Fair!' Pedagogy, Pederasty, and Romantic Friendship at Eton in the 1860s"
Morris Kaplan, Purchase College

"Oscar Gives Himself Away: Reading Wilde's Presentation Copies"
Mark Samuels Lasner, Washington

"The Love That Dared Not Speak His name: Literary Responses to the Wilde Trails"
Margareet Stetz, Georgetown University

"Samuel Rowley's Staging of Youth for Prince Henry, His Patron"
Mark Lawhorn, University of Hawaii

"From the Mouths of Babes: Speaking Children in English Witchcraft Trials and Exorcisms"
Michael Witmore, Carnegie Mellon University

"Voices and Letters in the Experience of Restoration Religious Nonconformity"
Michael Mascuch, University of California, Berkeley

"The Good Citizen: Men and Women on the Home front"
Sonya Rose, University of Michigan

"Trusting Mum: Women, Agency and Nation in Wartime Popular Fiction"
Gill Plain, University of St. Andrews

"Social and Political Implications of Gender in Selected Women's Fiction of the Second World War"
Elisabeth Maslen, London

"Visions for Company: Victorian Anthropology, Spiritualism, and the Project of Disembodied Otherness"
Grace Class, University of Michigan

"The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham: Ethnographic Objects in the late-Victorian World"
Amy Robinson, Stanford University

"`Clap if you Believe in Sherlock Holmes:' The `Rational Imagination' and Modern Enchantment"
Micahel Saler, University of California, Davis

"Exploring 18th Century Hegemony: Tropes of Dependence in the Political Rhetoric of the 1790s"
Stephen F. Wolf, Linfield College

"Needlewomen and the New Poor Law"
Jo Chimes, University of Manchester

"Poverty, Pity, and Community: Urban Poverty and the Threat of Social Bonds in the late Victorian Age"
Dan Bivona, Arizona State University

"Theatrical Performance and the Ritual of Warfare: The American Revolution Revises the Script"
Maura C. Carey, Atlanta

"The Colonial Context of Hobbes's Leviathan"
Burke Griggs, Boston College

"Fred Burnaby and Achieving Celebrity Status in late Victorian England"
Martin Anderson, Dominican College

"The Manchester Movement for the Abolition of the Slave Trade"
Rachel Martin, Cambridge University

"Feminism in Parliament, 1867-1886"
Ben Griffin, Cambridge University

"Speaking to the People: Liberalism, Extra-Parliamentary Speech and Parliamentary Reform"
Kristin Zimmerman, Stanford University

"Dickens in Egypt"
Ryan Johnson, Stanford University

"Digging to India: Modernity, Imperialism, and the Suez Canal"
Emily Haddad, University of South Dakota

"Remembering Suez: The Crisis in John Osborne's The Entertainer and David Hare's Plenty"
Adam Knoles, University of Texas, Austin

"Sir George Hayter and the `1833 House of Commons:' Politics and Portraiture in the Reform Period"
Joseph Coohill, United Kingdom

"The Treasury View of Art, 1896-1914"
Peter Mandler, London Guildhall University

"Color Theories: Victorian Experiments in the Aesthetics of Race"
Jordanna Bailkin, Columbia University

"Women in the Market Economy,: England, 1300-1600; Southern Nigeria, 1850-1960; and Contemporary Uganda"
Marjorie McIntosh, University of Colorado

"`Nothing Inferior to Those of Men:' Circles of Intellectual Women in 17th Century England"
Carol Pal, Stanford University

"Like hell with the lid off:" British Medical Women and the Politics of Forcible Feeding, 1909-1914"
Kaarin Michaelsen, University of California-Berkeley

"`Sporty' Girls and `Artistic' Boys: Illicit Sex in the Personal Ad and the Correspondence Club 1913-39"
Harry Cocks, University of Manchester

"The Use of Leisure: Police Responses to Urban Discord, 1919-39"
Francis Dodsworth, University of Manchester

"The Problem of Leisure: Leisure as a Technology of Rule"
Philippa Grand, University of Manchester

"Massage Therapy, Sexuality and the Commercialization of Medicine"
Takahiro Ueyama, Sophia University, Tokyo

"Contagionism's Consequences: 19th Century Disease Theory and Victorian Narrative Form"
Tina Choi, University of California, Berkeley

"Running Amuck on Opium and Alcohol: The Limits of Legal Responsibility in Late Victorian Britain"
Susan Zeiger, University of California, Berkeley

"Mechanical Nature: William Morris Wallpaper, 1863-1895"
Stacey Loughrey, University of Southern California

"Eyes of the Proper Almond Shape:' Rossetti and Whistler as Collectors of Blue and White China"
Elizabeth Chang, University of California, Berkeley

"`Eye to Eye Oppos'd:' I.A. Richards and the Sinicization of British Modernism"
Rodney Koeneke, Stanford University

"`You are Harriet, and You are Black but Comely:' Is that all Harriet Is?"
Margaret Oakes, Furman University

"`A World She Recognized:' Female Space in the Works of P.D. James"
Robin Woods, Ripon College

"British Golden Age Detective Fiction: An End to the Myth of the Cozy Country House"
Susan Rowland, University of Greenwich

"Comparative Colonialisms: Missionaries, Indigenous People, and the Politics of Translation in Eastern Australia and Northwestern America"
Anne Keary, University of California, Berkeley

"Cult of Empire: Freemasonry, Civil Religion, and the British Raj"
Vahid Fozdar, University of California, Berkeley

"Purifying the Empire: Moral Censorship and the Civilizing Mission in Australia and India"
Deana Heath, University of California, Berkeley

"`What's News on the Rialto?' Early Modern Interpretations of Contemporary Massacres"
Elizabeth Truax, Chapman University

"Blood and Literature in 19th Century England"
Goldie Morgentaler, University of Lethbridge

"The Role of Blood Sports in Industrial England"
Emma Griffen, Cambridge University

"Pynson's Complaint: Feats of Merchandise and Fifteenth-Century Print Culture"
William Kuskin, University of Southern Mississippi

"Lacking Real Character: Samuel Pepys and the Cryptic Self"
Robert Batchelor, San Francisco

"Culture of Print: Mass Markets and Theories of the Liberal Public Sphere"
Judith Stoddart, Michigan State University