The historiography of the Evangelical movement in the Church of England can be traced back to portions of James Stephen's well-known and controversial Essays in ecclesiastical biography, first published in 1849. Since then, Anglican Evangelicals (as they became known) have been extensively studied on a number of divergent levels from both within and outside their own tradition. This latest attempt by Nigel Scotland presents a comprehensive (and sympathetic) survey of the movement during a ‘revolutionary age’, when England was transformed from a predominantly agrarian society into a modern industrial and commercial powerhouse. The book is divided into sixteen sections. It begins with a brief historical account of the Evangelical movement before examining a number of diverse but related topics, some predictable – politics, social action, theology, culture, education, revivalism, overseas missions and ritual controversies; others perhaps less so – the episcopate, the battle for the Bible, Sunday observance, spirituality and parish life. The strength of this work lies in its unprecedented comprehensiveness; Scotland has covered more ground than any previous work of this nature. He is also to be admired for his clear prose style and (given the extensive number of subjects examined) for the book's efficient organisational structure. Readers may be less enthusiastic about Scotland's heavy dependence on secondary material, and thus the work's rather derivative nature. Moreover, there remain some obvious omissions in the recent secondary literature covered, the inclusion of which would have necessitated a rather different emphasis from time to time. Given the rapid expansion in popularity of Evangelicalism in the Church of England during the past few decades (and throughout world-wide Anglicanism itself), this volume will be widely read and much appreciated by scholars as well as by those outside the Academy.