On trying to be a historian of Eastern Europe, H.Seton-Watson; the Greeks and their past, R.Clogg; some considerations on the emergence of the principality of Moldavia, D.Deletant; Stojan Novakovic - historian, politician, diplomat, D.Djordjevic; Czech historians and the end of Austria-Hungary, H.Hanek; Mihail Kogalniceanu - historian as foreign minister, 1876-78, B.Jelavich; Milenko M. Vukicevic - from Serbianism to Yugoslavism, C.Jelavich; the idea of a comparative history of East Central Europe - the story of a venture, 1943-48, D.Kosary; Vienna and the education of East European historians, W.Leitsch; Nicholae Iorga as historian and politician, M.Pearton; Zalud Vysokomytsky - a Czech radical historian of 1848, R.B.Pynsent; Henry L.Roberts and the study of history and politics of East Central Europe, J.H.Rothschild; bibliography of the works of Hugh Seton-Watson, J.Daley.

A selection of papers from a conference held in honour of Professor Hugh Seton-Watson on the occasion of his retirement in l983. The aim of the contributors is to illustrate the role of the historian in the political life of Central and East European nations.