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A RTICLES MARK STOYLE The cannibal cavalier: Sir Thomas Lunsford and the fashioning of the royalist archetype 293 DAVID GARRIOCH 1666 and London’s fire history: a re-evaluation 319 WILLIAM J. BULMAN Hobbes’s publisher and the political business of Enlightenment 339 THE GABRIEL GLICKMAN Protestantism, colonization, and the New England Company in Restoration politics 365 TIRTHANKAR ROY The mutiny and the merchants 393 LUKE BLAXILL AND TAYM SALEH The electoral dynamics of conservatism, 1885–1910: ‘negative unionism’ reconsidered 417 SABINA DONATI Italy’s informal imperialism in Tianjin during the liberal epoch, 1902–1922 447 HISTORICAL CHRIS JEPPESEN ‘Sanders of the River, Still the Best Job for a British Boy’; recruitment to the colonial administrative service at the end of empire 469 ELISABETH LEAKE At the nation-state’s edge: centre–periphery relations in post-1947 South Asia 509 L. M. RATNAPALAN Britain and the politics of Ceylon, 1948–1961 541 JON LAWRENCE Inventing the ‘traditional working class’: a re-analysis of interview JOURNAL notes from Young and Willmott’s Family and kinship in East London 567

C OMMUNICATION MICHAEL HUNTER Pitcairneana: an atheist text by Archibald Pitcairne 595

R EVIEW A RTICLE ROSALIND CARR A polite and Enlightened London? 623

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ARTICLES Mark Stoyle The cannibal cavalier: Sir Thomas Lunsford and the fashioning of the royalist archetype ......  David Garrioch  and London’s ﬁre history: a re-evaluation . .  William J. Bulman Hobbes’s publisher and the political business of Enlightenment ......  Gabriel Glickman Protestantism, colonization, and the New England Company in Restoration politics ......  Tirthankar Roy The mutiny and the merchants . . . . .  Luke Blaxill and Taym Saleh The electoral dynamics of conservatism, –: ‘negative unionism’ reconsidered . . . . .  Sabina Donati Italy’s informal imperialism in Tianjin during the liberal epoch, – ......  Chris Jeppesen ‘Sanders of the River, Still the Best Job for a British Boy’; recruitment to the colonial administrative service at the end of empire ......  Elisabeth Leake At the nation-state’s edge: centre–periphery relations in post- South Asia ......  L. M. Ratnapalan Britain and the politics of Ceylon, – .  Jon Lawrence Inventing the ‘traditional working class’: a re-analysis of interview notes from Young and Willmott’s Family and kinship in East London ...... 

COMMUNICATION Michael Hunter Pitcairneana: an atheist text by Archibald Pitcairne . 

REVIEW ARTICLE Rosalind Carr A polite and Enlightened London? . . . . 