A recent arrival on the doormat was the latest volume of Studies in Church History, being papers mostly from the Ecclesiastical History Society’s conference in Chichester in 2013. Given the theme of religious plurality, there are rich pickings for scholars of the twentieth century, which isn’t always the case with Studies.

In no particular order, some of the papers of particular interest are:

• John Wolffe’s presidential address to the conference on the Christian response to religious minorities in London since 1800;
• Marion Bowman on plurality and vernacular religion in early twentieth century Glastonbury;
• Martin Wellings on James Hope Moulton’s 1913 book Religions and Religion;
• Stuart Mews on a Christian-Hindu encounter in the University of London (1909-17);
• John Maiden on a fascinating contested church building redundancy in Bedford in 1977-8; and
• my own paper on Michael Ramsey and his encounter with other faiths (of which there is an extended summary).

As well as these, there are papers on twentieth century Egypt, Indonesia, Lebanon and Jerusalem, as well as on the Chaldean Catholic Church in modern Iraq.