The making of Holinshed. The Genesis of the Two Editions / Felicity Heal And Henry Summerson ; Printers, Publishers, and the Chronicles as Artefact / David Scott Kastan And Aaron T. Pratt ; Censorship / Cyndia Susan Clegg ; Sources: 1577 / Henry Summerson ; Sources: 1587 / Henry Summerson ; Harrison's 'Chronology' and Descriptions of Britain / Glyn Parry ; Illustrations in the 1577 Edition / James A. Knapp.
Historiography. Holinshed and the Native Chronicle Tradition / Alexandra Gillespie and Oliver Harris ; Holinshed and Mythical History / Laura Ashe ; Holinshed and the Middle Ages / Harriet Archer ; Leland and Other Precursors / James Carley ; Holinshed and Hall / Scott Lucas ; Holinshed and Foxe / Susannah Monta and Thomas S. Freeman ; Later Historians and Holinshed / Wyman Herendeen ; The Wider World of Chronicling / Daniel Woolf.
Form, style, and reception. Genres / Tricia McElroy ; Rhetoric / Jennifer Richards ; Holinshed and the Classics / Judith Mossman ; Shows and Pageants / Elizabeth Goldring and Jayne Elisabeth Archer ; Narrative Voice and Influencing the Reader / Matthew Woodcock ; Readership and Reception / Felicity Heal.
Politics, society, and religion. Monarchy / John Watts ; Social Order and Disorder / Ian W. Archer ; Religious Ideology / Peter Marshall ; Providentialism / Alexandra Walsham ; War / Paul E. J. Hammer ; The International Context / Steven Gunn ; Tudor Kings and Queens / Susan Doran.
Literary appropriations. History Plays and the Royal Succession / Paulina Kewes ; Shakespeare and Medieval History / Igor Djordjevic ; Shakespeare and British History / Richard Dutton ; Spenser and Holinshed / Richard A. McCabe ; Daniel and Holinshed / Gillian Wright ; Later Appropriations / Bart van Es.
Archipelagic Holinshed. Archipelagic History / Philip Schwyzer ; Mapping England and Wales / Alfred Hiatt ; England / Ralph Houlbrooke ; Scotland / Roger Mason ; Ireland / Colm Lennon ; Wales / Ralph Griffiths.