Articles in Volume 12 include: England and the Continent in the Ninth Century: I, Ends and Beginnings; Travellers and the Oriental City, c.1840-1920; The Myths of the South Sea Bubble; The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain. There is also a collection of papers on 'English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue, c.1400-c.1900', which includes the following papers: From Civilitas to Civility: Codes of Manners in Medieval and Early Modern England; Topographies of Politeness; Polite Consumption: Shopping in Eighteenth-Century England.