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William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University Geordan Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester -- .

Introduction – William Gibson and Geordan Hammond
Engines of Tyranny: The Court Sermons of James II – William Gibson
Engraved Clerical Portraiture in England, c.1660-1850: An Introductory Survey – Richard Sharp
Thomas Townson and High Church Continuities and Connections in Eighteenth-Century England – Nigel Aston
George Horne, the Hutchinsonian – Derya Gurses Tarbuck
Relational Reading and Imagined Religious Community in Catherine Livingston’s Evangelical Spirituality – Rachel Cope
Disappearing Women: The Gendered Politics of Publication of Mary Fletcher’s Auto/Biography – Carol Blessing
Seductive Splendour and Caricatured Simplicity: Catholicism and Nonconformity in Nineteenth-Century ‘Jewish Conversion’ Novels – Andrew Crome
The Spirituality of the Wesleyan Methodists of Brunswick Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era – David Bebbington
Dissolving the ‘Sacred Union’? The Disestablishment of the Church in Ireland – Stewart J. Brown
Continuity and Development: Looking for Typological Treasure with William Jones of Nayland and E. B. Pusey – George Westhaver
Henry Manning’s Journey to Roman Catholicism – Kenneth Parker
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’: Cardinal Manning and the Jewish People – James Pereiro -- .