Festschriften for eminent historians not infrequently reflect the interests of the contributors more closely than those of the figures whose work they are intended to celebrate. This volume, however, comes closer than most to bridging these two sets of interests. An opening essay by Bruce Collins helpfully draws attention to Robbins's focus on two issues. The first is national identity, both within the United Kingdom and its constituent components, and in the relations between the UK and Europe, America and its own imperial projects. The second is the remarkably complex (at least by European standards) nature of the British experience of organised religion with its mix of established and non-established Churches, and then the relationship between religion and the equally complex meanings of Britishness as experienced in the different cultural spaces of the United Kingdom and modified over time. The thirteen essays which make up the remainder of this volume all deal with at least one of these themes and some, like Eryn White's discussion of the relationship between constructions of Welsh and Calvinistic Methodist identity and Nigel Yates's treatment of Anglican attitudes to Roman Catholicism, touch on all three. The weighting is, however, principally towards the nature of British religion and its relationship with British culture; as in David Bebbington on Evangelicalism, Frances Knight on episcopal responses to temperance campaigns and John Spurr on blasphemy. In a collection containing many good things it is perhaps invidious to select a favourite, but this reviewer found Joris van Eijnatten's account of a characteristically eighteenth-century concern with sleeping congregations entertaining and enlightening in equal measure. Overall, this is a well-grouped set of essays which combines a considerable diversity of subject and treatment with an unusual consistency of theme and is strongly to be recommended to any reader interested in the particular issue of religion and identity.