Introduction : the Church of England, the British state and British politics during the 20th century / Matthew Grimley and Philip Williamson -- The politics of Church defence : Archbishop Davidson, the national church and the 'national character', c. 1900-14 / Tom Rodger -- Archbishops and the monarchy : leadership in British religion, 1900-2012 / Philip Williamson -- Ecclesiastical conservatism : Hensley Henson and Lord Hugh Cecil on church, state and nation, c. 1900-40 / Julia Stapleton -- Henley Henson, the prayer book controversy and the conservative case for disestablishment / S. J. D. Green -- Assembling an Anglican view of self-governing sexual citizenship, 1918-45 / Laura Ramsay -- Politics in the parish : Joseph Needham at Thaxted, c. 1925-85 / Arthur Burns -- Anglicans, reconstruction and democracy : the Cripps circle, 1939-52 / Matthew Grimley -- Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943-74 / Peter Webster -- The Church of England and religious education during the twentieth century / Stephen G. Parker and Rob Freathy -- Spiritual authority in a 'secular age' : the Lords Spiritual, c. 1950-80 / Tom Rodger -- 'A sort of official duty to reconcile' : Archbishop Fisher, the Church of England and the politics of British decolonization in East and Central Africa / Sarah Stockwell -- A 'baffling task' : Archbishop Fisher and the Suez Crisis / Andrew Connell -- John Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr, and transnational networks of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960s / Hannah Elias -- The Church of England, minority religions and the making of communal pluralism / Daniel S. Loss.