Articles include:

3 Feature: The Great Fire of Westminster 1834 – Patrick Cormack

8 Local History: Archive Services in the Metropolitan Counties and in Greater London – Elizabeth Berry

12 Record Linkage: Cartoonists and the General Elections of 1945 and 1983 – Adrian Smith

16 Update: Parliament in the Middle Ages – Helen Jewell

20 Medals of Learned Societies – Mark Jones

23 Personalia: Profile of William Norton Medlicott

25 Interpretation: Europeans and Africa – Kenneth Ingham

43 Spotlight: Canterbury