Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards.

Volume 1: The Blasphemous Enlightenment to 1810 General Introduction; A Hall, A Sermon, against Profane Swearing (1790); Socinian Blasphemy Exposed (1791); B S B Hobhouse (ed), A Treatise on Heresy (1792); An Address to the Public, from the Society for the Suppression of Vice (1802); Rev Simmons, The Second Spira (1807); The Blasphemer's Punishment [c.1790]; A Warning to Gamblers and Swearers (1814) Volume 2: The Early Nineteenth Century The Constable's Assistant (1818); Introduction to British Loyalty (1819); R Carlile, A Letter to the Society for the Suppression of Vice (1819); The Debate in the House of Commons (1823); R Carlile, The Trials ... of Mrs Jane Carlile, Mary Ann Carlile, William Holmes etc (1825); R Carlile: Jail Journal, ed G Aldred (1942); S D Parker, Report of the Arguments of the Attorney of the Commonwealth (1834); A Dunlap, A Speech delivered before the Municipal Court (1834); G A Chapman, A Review of the Trial, Conviction, And Final imprisonment in the Common Jail of the County of Suffolk of Abner Kneeland (1838); Precognition of Thomas Paterson (1842); The Case of Paterson (c.1844); G J Holyoake 'Address to the Anti-Persecution Union' (c.1848); Lord Brougham's Opinion on Blasphemy; An Association of Prayers against Blasphemy, trans. E G Kirwan Browne (1847); W Armstrong, Letter of Complaint regarding Lectures by John Stuart (1851) Volume 3: The Late Nineteenth Century G J Holyoake, The Suppressed Lecture at Cheltenham (1864); G J Holyoake, The Last Trial for Atheism in England (1871); 'The Extent to which the Common Law is Applied' (1866); C Bradlaugh, Heresy its Utility and Morality (1870); W A Hunter, The Past and Present of Heresy Laws (1878); W Heaford, 'What Shall I do to be Damned?', Freethinker (1882); G W Foote, Verbatim Report of the Three Trials for Blasphemy of Messrs Foote Ramsey and Kemp (1883); G W Foote Defence of Free Speech (1889); J F Stephen 'The Law on Blasphemy and Blasphemous Libel' (1884); Daniel Ace, A Paper ... Being an Exposition of the Blasphemy Laws of England (1884); R G Ingersoll, Real Blasphemy, a Lecture (1885); Cartoons from the Freethinker (1882) Volume 4: The Edwardian Period and early Twentieth Century J T Gott, Rib Ticklers or Questions for Parsons (1900); E Pack, The Parson's Doom (1900); E Pack, The Trial of John Gott for Blasphemy (1914); E Pack, The Latest Leeds Police Fiasco (1904); Cartoons and Short Articles (1912); C Chapman, A Fight for a Right; Society for the Abolition of the Blasphemy Laws, Verbatim Report of the Deputation to the Home Secretary (1924)