NORMAN DAVIES Professor Emeritus of Polish History at SSEES KARIN FRIEDRICH Lecturer in German History at SSEES LINDSEY HUGHES Professor of Russian History at SSEES JOHN D. KLIER Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London HANS LEMBERG Professor of East European History at the Philipps-Universität, Marburg BRUCE MITCHELL completing his doctoral thesis on ethnographic cartography at SSEES H. BARRY NISBET Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex College and Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge JOHANNES PAULMANN completing his study on royal and state visits in nineteenth-century Europe at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich MARTYN RADY Senior Lecturer in Central European History at SSEES THEO J. SCHULTE Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge KEITH SWORD Lecturer in Polish Studies at SSEES