Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century

Contents: Introduction; Part I Religion and Identity: Defining Britain and Britishness; an historian’s quest. An appreciation of Keith Robbins, Bruce Collins; The manner of English blasphemy, 1676-2008, John Spurr; The topography of power: elites and the political landscape of the English town, 1660-1760, Peter Borsay; 'Sleep not while the trumpet is blown in Zion': public somnolence, civic values and modern audience in 18th-century Britain, Joris van Eijnatten; A tale of two mirrors: forming an identity for the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales, Eryn M. White; Sunday schools and Welsh national identity: an historiographical study, Paula Yates; Evangelicalism and British culture, D.W. Bebbington; Anglican attitudes to Roman Catholicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Nigel Yates. Part II Conflict and Identity: Trials and shadows: Bishop Charles John Ellicott (1819-1905) and ’angry controversies’ in the Church of England, John Morgan-Guy; Recreation or renunciation? Episcopal interventions in the Drink Question in the 1890s, Frances Knight; Reactions to the Didache in early 20th-century Britain: a dispute over the relationship of history and doctrine?, Thomas O’Loughlin; Religion, politics and sport in Western Europe, c.1870-1939, Hugh McLeod; W.T. Stead, the ’new journalism’ and the ’new Church’ in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Stewart J. Brown; ’An ambitious venture’: Oxford University Press and The Oxford History of England, Brian Harrison; Select bibliography of the publications of Keith Robbins; Index.