Introduction--David Bebbington and Timothy Larsen
1: A Dissenting Historian's Formation--Clyde Binfield
2: Professor Clyde Binfield: A Critical Appreciation--W. R. Ward<
Part I: Popular Culture
3: "Thews and Sinews": Nonconformity and Sport--Hugh McLeod
4: Nonconformity and the Pottery Industry--John Briggs

Part II: Architecture
5: "An Important Work": Building a Victorian Chapel--John Handby Thompson
6: Newman, Pugin and the Architecture of the English Oratory--Sheridan Gilley

Part III: Education
7: The Cultural Aspirations of the Welsh Clergy--Frances Knight
8: Honorary Doctorates and the Nonconformist Ministry in Nineteenth-Century England--Timothy Larsen
9: Cultural Aspiration and Dissenting Colleges: The First Students at Mansfield College, Oxford--Elaine Kaye
10: Nonconformists at Cambridge Before the First World War--David Thompson
11: Methodist Attitudes to Education and Youth: Halifax, 1800-2000--John A. Hargreaves
Part IV: Politics
12: The Dissenting Political Upsurge of 1833-34--David Bebbington
13: Educational Aspirations versus Social Hierarchies: The 1906 Education Bill--John Wigley
14: Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Self-Improvement--Richard Carwardine

Part V: Ecclesiology
15: The Disruption in London: English Presbyterians and the Scottish Disruption of 1843--David Cornick
16: From Union to Church: Autobiographical Recollections on Congregational Ecclesiology in the 1960s--Alan Sell