This collection of essays provides an overview of the Huguenot experience in England and Ireland during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the introduction, Anne Duncan-Page stresses the many, often competing, allegiances that shaped Huguenot exile culture. This diversity of political loyalties, religious attitudes and cultural interests is reflected in the ten articles that follow, which also vary in scope, style and scholarly standards. The book is divided into three thematically arranged sections, covering the main areas in current Huguenot research. The first section deals with ‘The issue of conformity’ and starts with Robin Gwynn's reassessment of the numbers of congregations in late seventeenth-century England. Susanne Lachenicht turns the attention to Ireland and shows how ‘Irish’ Huguenots were in a better position to retain their exclusive French Calvinist identity against the efforts of the established Church to make them conform. Next, Vivienne Larminie provides an introduction to the ODNB project and then starts with a biographical account of Peter and Lewis du Moulin. Part ii, ‘Church organisation and social structure’, opens with Randolph Vigne's analysis of poor relief in London. He concludes that the experience of persecution and exile ‘and a sense of duty to Almighty God who had preserved them’ may have inspired Huguenots ‘with a stronger sympathy for the poor and needy than was common among the native English and French at home’. Matthew Glozier focuses on the successes of Huguenot soldiers abroad and argues that they were ‘Europe's most energetic, devout, industrious and brave peoples’. The settlement in North America is covered in the following essay by Paula Wheeler Carlo who sketches a vivid portrait of Louis Rou, pastor of St Esprit in New York between 1710 and 1750. The final section concentrates on ‘The circulation of ideas’. Jane McKee provides a thorough treatment of Huguenot books in Irish church libraries, while S. J. Savonius examines the role of Huguenot tutors in John Locke's programme of social reform. Simon Harvey and Elizabeth Grist approach the Rainbow Coffee House group as a circle that played a facilitating role in the exchange of Enlightenment ideas in England. Finally, Myriam Yardeni explores Huguenot traces in John Toland's conception of tolerance, particularly with regard to Jews. The volume does not seek to formulate new questions to the Huguenot exile experience or to explore unknown paths. Nevertheless, it does give a fresh overview of recent scholarship, thus reflecting the vibrancy as well as the idiosyncrasies in current Huguenot research. An index and extensive bibliography complete the book.