PREECE, R. C. Introduction. Island Britain: a Quaternary perspective • FUNNELL, B. M. Global sea-level and the (pen-)insularity of late Cenozoic Britain GIBBARD, P. L. The formation of the Strait of Dover • BRIDGLAND, D. R. & D'OLIER, B. The Pleistocene evolution of the Thames and Rhine drainage systems in the southern North Sea Basin • BELLAMY, A. G. Extension of the British landmass: evidence from shelf sediment bodies in the English Channel • KEEN, D. H. Raised beaches and sea-levels in the English Channel in the Middle and Late Pleistocene: problems of interpretation and implications for the isolation of the British Isles • SCOURSE, J. D. & AUSTIN, R. M. Palaeotidal modelling of continental shelves: marine implications of a land-bridge in the Strait of Dover during the Holocene and Middle Pleistocene • MEIJER, T. & PREECE, R. C. Malacological evidence relating to the insularity of the British Isles during the Quaternary • STUART, A. J. Insularity and Quaternary vertebrate faunas in Britain and Ireland • SUTCLIFFE, A. J. Insularity of the British Isles 250000-30000 years ago: the mammalian, including human, evidence • TURNER, A. Evidence for Pleistocene contact between the British Isles and the European continent based on distributions of larger carnivores • LISTER, A. M. Sea-levels and the evolution of island endemics: the dwarf red deer of Jersey • BENNETT, K. D. Insularity and the Quaternary tree and shrub flora of the British Isles • DEVOY, R. J. N. Deglaciation, Earth crustal behaviour and sea-level changes in the determination of insularity: a perspective from Ireland • WINGFIELD, R. T. R. A model of sea-levels in the Irish and Celtic seas during the end-Pleistocene to Holocene transition • COXON, P. & W ALDREN, S. The floristic record of Ireland's Pleistocene temperate stages • Index