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• Arguments against a universal base: evidence from Old EnglishDifferent parts and versions of this article have been presented at the Workshop on Historical Syntax (University of Aarhus, 2004); the University of Geneva (2004); the University of Stuttgart (2003); the University of York (2003); the Second Holland–York Symposium on the History of English Syntax (University of Leiden, 2003); the Eighteenth Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (University of Durham, 2003), the Seventh Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (University of Girona, 2002); the Sixth Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (University of Maryland, 2000). I thank the audiences at these talks, especially Eric Haeberli and Ann Taylor, and the two editors of this special issue for helpful discussion. I am particularly grateful to two anonymous reviewers for suggestions that helped to clarify my thinking on the contents of this article, even though I was not able to incorporate all of their comments and ideas. All errors and omissions remain my own responsibility. This work has been supported by AHRB Research Leave Grant 4727 APN 13199 and a matching grant from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York; this support is gratefully acknowledged.

  PINTZUK, SUSAN; PINTZUK SUSAN; University of York (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• THE MODERN GIRL AND RACIAL RESPECTABILITY IN 1930S SOUTH AFRICAEarlier versions of this article were presented at the International Workshop on Gender and Visuality at the University of the Western Cape, the University of Stellenbosch, the International Symposium on ‘Modern Girl, Asia and Beyond’ at Ochanomizu University, the 2004 African Studies Association meetings, Rutgers University, Yale University, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the University of Chicago and the University of Washington. I thank the participants in these forums, other colleagues, and the anonymous Journal of African History reviewers who provided insightful commentary on those many versions. A Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies; a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; and the Walter C. Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Graduate School and the History Department at the University of Washington generously provided funding for research and writing. Finally, I thank my undergraduate and graduate student research assistants at the University of Washington who collected some of the sources for this article.

  THOMAS, LYNN M.; THOMAS LYNN M.; University of Washington (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• ‘The progeny of these two “Fellows”’: Robert Willis, William Whewell and the sciences of mechanism, mechanics and machinery in early Victorian BritainI presented some of these ideas at the History of Science Research Workshop, University of Kent and at two conferences: ‘Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge’ at Trinity College, Cambridge, and ‘Bodies/Machines’ at the Queenʼs University, Belfast. I thank the conference organizers, Jonathan Smith and Iwan Morus respectively, and participants, in particular Aileen Fyfe, Graeme Gooday and Simon Schaffer. At Kent, Richard Eales kindly shared his knowledge of Robert Willis and Grayson Ditchfield discussed questions in religious history. Jon Agar, Yakup Bektas, Rainer Broemer, John Brooke, Simon Chaplin, John Clark, Maurice Crosland, Andrew Cunningham, David Ditchburn, James Massender, John Pickstone, Ann Scott, Crosbie Smith, Claire Taylor and Jane Wess offered advice, criticism and additional sources. Two anonymous referees made invaluable suggestions on structure and focus. I thank the archivists and librarians of the University of Aberdeen, Cambridge University Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, University College London, the University of St Andrews, the Science Museum Library and the Institution of Civil Engineers. The completion of this paper was made possible by the generous support of the Royal Society of London (Small Research Grants) and the Royal Society of London and the British Academy jointly (Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the History of Science).For permission to quote from manuscripts I am grateful to University College London (Library Services) (SDUK Papers), the British Library (Babbage Papers), the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge (Whewell Papers), the Syndics of Cambridge University Library (Stokes Papers) and the Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council (Royal Greenwich Observatory Collection).

  MARSDEN, BEN; MARSDEN BEN; University of Aberdeen (Cambridge University Press, 2004)