This volume is a further product of the work of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies. The editors jointly provide a substantial introduction which acknowledges that the contributors that they have enlisted have to deal with diversity. Dissent did not consist of a single constituency but insofar as it had unity it arose from the sense that it stood closer to the scriptural model of the Church than did the established Churches. Dissenters, they suggest, played a vital role in the publication and study of the Bible in Britain and in the controversies surrounding its everyday application. Their volume gains from a ready recognition, as they put it, that dissenting biblical culture was full of cracks and smidges. The editors themselves weigh in with substantial pieces. Mandelbrote eruditely pursues the writings of the Henrys, father and son, and their legacy within the century after 1650. Ledger-Lomas tackles what he calls the sustained and pragmatic engagement of Evangelical Nonconformists within the orientalising study of the Bible, also with a family focus, in this case on Joseph Conder and his sons. Phyllis Mack and David Wilson, noting that some recent work on early Methodist women preachers seems more interested in what the Bible ‘says’ about these women than about what these women said and believed about the Bible, tackle the latter question through the eyes of Mary Bosanquet Fletcher. Simon Mills examines the biblical studies of Nathaniel Lardner, Joseph Priestley and Thomas Belsham. Ian Shaw's consideration, over much the same period, of English High Calvinists, presents a rather different picture. Looking at the nineteenth century, Timothy Larsen examines the perspectives of Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter and Catherine Booth. Simon Green, taking Seebohm Rowntree as his jumping-off point, examines the decline of popular Biblicism and the fate of Protestant England in the first half of the twentieth century. Very conspicuously, however, this set of contributions is not limited to the field of English dissent: Eryn White tackles attitudes and opinions within Welsh dissent in the century after 1750, Andrew Holmes considers Irish Presbyterians and Samuel Davidson, and Colin Kidd and Valerie Wallace consider Scottish Presbyterian dissent in the Age of Robertson Smith. So, the ten chapters have had a focus upon particular episodes or individuals within the span of three hundred years rather than made an attempt either to identify the predominating dissenting ‘biblical cultures’ of particular centuries or to delineate the specific emphases of individual denominations across the entire period. However, it is only by building on such case studies that such characterisations might be attempted, were anyone bold enough to do so.