This cogently argued and informative study assesses the impact of the religious civil war in the early modern Low Countries, commonly known as the Dutch Revolt (c.1568–1648), on the British Isles. Scholars in the past have generally studied connections between both countries in terms of government intervention (for example, the tenure of the earl of Leicester in the rebel Netherlands), dynastic policy (for example, alliances between the houses of Stuart and Orange) or religious migration (for example, the establishment of Dutch refugee churches in England). Hugh Dunthorne builds on this historiography, providing a comprehensive analysis with numerous fascinating new examples. Together, this material reveals the many repercussions of the Dutch conflict on ‘British’ society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By pursuing a broad, cultural approach, Dunthorne is able to show how news of the war and Dutch print culture resonated among readers across the Channel and helped to shape common Protestant self-images. The Netherlands' school of war similarly provided thousands of soldiers from England and Scotland with their apprenticeship from the 1570s down to the time of Britain's own civil wars in the 1640s. The experiences of the Dutch exile churches in England are lucidly compared to those of English refugee communities (both Catholic and Protestant nonconformists) in the Netherlands. In the final chapter, Dunthorne demonstrates how ideas that circulated in the British Isles – about resistance to monarchical rule, the curriculum at universities and reforms to charitable institutions – were often grounded in, or influenced by, Dutch examples. By mapping these connections, Britain and the Dutch Revolt presents an impressive array of often little-studied sources and gauges how exactly this material provided food for thought and for action during the Elizabethan and Stuart ages. More implicitly, this study confirms recent conclusions by scholars who regard the early modern North Sea not so much as a barrier, but rather as a cultural highway. After all, in this period it was easier and quicker to travel over sea than over land. When we appreciate the English Channel as a zone of exchange, it follows that the Netherlands and Britain frequently looked to each other as models and rivals. This fine study exemplifies that one cannot properly understand the one without studying the other.