Historical distance and the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain / Mark Salber Phillips -- Gibbon and the primitive church / J.G.A. Pocock -- Gibbon's religious characters / David Womersley -- 'The lust of empire and religious hate': Christianity, history, and India, 1790-1820 / Brian Young -- The Victorians and Oliver Cromwell / Blair Worden -- Religion and politics in the Quarterly Review, 1809-1853 / William Thomas -- Ruskin's way: tout à fait comme un oiseau / John Drury -- The politics of anatomy and an anatomy of politics c. 1825-1850 / Boyd Hilton -- Images of time: from Carlylean Vulcanism to sedimentary gradualism / John Burrow -- 'Race' and 'nation' in mid-Victorian thought / Peter Mandler -- Political thought and national identity in Britain, 1850-1950 / Julia Stapleton.