Earlier in his career Brian Fletcher’s research interests focused on colonial Australia, an area in which he’s well published. Following his appointment as Bicentennial Chair of Australian History at the University of Sydney, his interests shifted towards history as a social force, an area in which he’s equally well published. The shift explains why his latest book isn’t a history of Australian Anglicanism since Western contact. It’s about that church in the lead-up to Federation, and its place in Australia since. Fletcher builds on two studies that influenced him: Australian Anglicanism (2002), edited by Bruce Kaye, and Anglicans in Australia…