The history of the Dominicans in the British Isles is a rich and fascinating one.Eight centuries have passed since the Friars Preachers landed on England's shores.Yet no book charting the history of the English Province has appeared for close on a hundred years.Richard Finn now sets right this neglect. He guides the reader engagingly and authoritatively through the medieval, early modern and contemporary periods: from the arrival of the first Black Friars – and the Province's 1221 foundation by Gilbert de Fresnay – to Dominican missions to the Caribbean and Southern Africa and seismic changes in church and society after Vatican II.He discusses the Province's medieval resilience and sudden Reformation collapse; attempts in the 1650s to restore it; its Babylonian Exile in the Low Countries; its virtual disappearance in the nineteenth century; and its unlikely modern revival.This is an essential work for medievalists, theologians and historians alike.