Welcome to the website of
The Hymn Society of
Great Britain and Ireland

15 April 2019 - A hymn text by Andrew Pratt following the fire at Notre Dame.

Photo © John Crothers

Committee Member Anne Harrison was interviewed by Premier Christian Radio’s Northern Correspondent Ian Britton on Sunday 11 November at 12 noon in an hour-long programme on Hymns and the Great War. Here is a link to the recording: https://www.premier.org.uk/Across-the-UK/North-of-England/Hymns-of-the-Great-War

The entire collection of Bulletins dating back to the first issue of 1937 will soon be on our archive pages for members of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland to read. Currently we go back to issue 127 - May 1973 - covering all of Andrew Pratt, Christopher Idle and Bernard Massey's time as editors and the last few issues of Erik Routley's editorship - just before he moved to America.

There are many fascinating articles in them, some are included in our 80 Treasures. Access to the Bulletins is for members only. Not a member? Why not join us?

The Interactive index will continue to be updated as these Bulletins are converted to text pages.

The latest addition to the website is a list of Hymnology collections, open to the public, from around the UK and Ireland.

The executive wish to extend our thanks to Christine Purcell who works with the Pratt Green Library in Durham and the various libraries that have provided the information. We hope this will provide a useful resource.

The Interactive Bulletin index now available on the website

We have created an interactive index for the Bulletin which covers the historic issues going back to 1937 (as new issues are published these will be added to the index).

The index comprises seven categories which are searchable, downloadable and printable and are made available to everyone visiting the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland website. For members there is an added advantage, each entry will be linked to its relevant article within an issue, directly opening that article when logged into the website. Non members will have the option of becoming a member to view the content.

Volumes XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX (numbers 234-281) are fully linked within the indexes with some parts of volumes of XXI and XXII (numbers 282-296) linked. All of these issues are available to our members to read.

Digitising Volume XVI has begun! Issues for January 2001 - October 2002 (Bulletins 226 - 233) are now available for members to read and the relevant links are updated in the index.

The new Bulletin index page can be found here

If you are a member of the society but do not have a user name or password for the new site (previous user names and passwords will not work on this new site), please contact the webmaster and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We hope you find this new resource useful.

The Executive of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Delegates from the 2017 Conference in Carmarthen