Philanthropy was an essential feature of the relationship between Dissent and the society from which it sometimes felt itself to be separate.

Introduction - Clyde Binfield and G.M. Ditchfield and David L. WykesDissent and Charity, 1660-1720 - David L. WykesDissenters and Charity Sermons, c.1700-1750 - Jennifer FarooqJohn Howard, Dissent and the Early Years of Philanthropy in Britain - Hugh CunninghamRational Philanthropy: theory and practice in the emergence of British Unitarianism, c.1750-c.1820 - G.M. DitchfieldDavid Nasmith (1799-1839), philanthropy expressed as campaigning - Stephen OrchardBuilding Philanthropy: the example of Joshua Wilson (1795-1874) - Clyde BinfieldFunding Faith: Early Victorian Wesleyan Philanthropy - David JeremyUnitarians and philanthropy after 1844: the formation of a denominational identity - Alan Ruston - David L. WykesChildren and Orphans: Some Nonconformist Responses to the Vulnerable in Victorian Britain - John BriggsThe Rowntree family and the evolution of Quaker philanthropy, c.1880-c.1920 - Mark Freeman'Not slothful in business': Enriqueta Rylands and the John Rylands Library - Elizabeth Gow