As the title clearly indicates the thirteen papers presented in this miscellany cover a wide chronological range, all providing editions of material in the collections of Lambeth Palace Library. All carry an introduction setting the edited documents in context. A few chapters directly amplify others, such as Arthur Burns's on the struggles of Joshua King as incumbent at Bethnal Green and M. H. Port's on C. J. Blomfield's ambitious plans for church ordering and architecture, including Bethnal Green, while James Carley's admirable edition of Abbot's preface to the 1642 Lambeth catalogue and its plea for a return ad fontes, bears directly both on the library itself and on recent threats to its future. Several chapters record archbishops in difficult times, political or theological or, as is so often the case, both simultaneously: for example the volume opens with Patrick Collinson's documents recording Grindal's agonising, and personally catastrophic, defence of prophesyings and ends with the concern of Fisher and Ramsey, greater in the latter case, with homosexual law reform in papers edited by Hugh McLeod. Both attracted flak, the first from the queen, the second two both from their bishops and from the general public. Donaldson, visiting the Western Front, illustrated by Michael Snape, witnessed bombardments of a more physical variety. Space does not allow accounts of all the contributions to this volume, though each deserves one. Many of the issues selected have resonance today, and many have compelling human interest. To take one example, Richard Palmer's documentation of William Dodsworth's transition from Evangelical to Roman with all the consequences for his family life, can only be distressing reading. Lighter moments are provided by Bell's pen-portraits of assorted bishops in Charlotte Methuen's account of the Lambeth Conference of 1920 embedded in the record of the Appeal of All Christian People and the pressing problem of ecumenism, but the frequent sadness of the individuals here memorialised is neatly recognised by the editors by the wonderful appearance, in a Cypriot context, of the bishop of Pathos.