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Congregational Song: Community and Context
Join us for a day of singing, presentations and discussions led by three vibrant communities from across Britain and Ireland:…
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Hymn Research Today
European conference Strasbourg, Monday 31st August to Friday, 4 September 2026. Interested to learn more about hymnody in other countries,…
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Hymns in the Court Trials?
In the 18th and into the 19th centuries Swedish courts often opened or accompanied proceedings with hymns and sometimes scripture…
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Call for Papers: Music and Ritual
Call for Papers: Music and Ritual in the Religious Contexts MDPI, the Swiss-based open-access academic publisher, has invited hymnologists to…
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Annual Conference 2026
This year this society celebrated 90 years of commitment to exploring, encouraging, understanding and supporting hymnody. The highlight of the…
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Call for Papers
Singing – Compendium of a Cultural and Religious Practice Are you a scholar, researcher or activist in the field of…
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Alleluia is our song by David Mowbray
Hymns for Worship and Reflection Remember Christ Jesus, alive from the dead! Once scorned as the loser, now winner instead.…
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Rejoice and Sing LIVE!
On Saturday 3 May there will be an event in Coventry to celebrate 35 years of Rejoice and Sing, the…
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Song Writing to Change the World
The Iona Community are to host “a creative songwriting week for beginner or intermediate level”, organised and led by HSUSC,…
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2025 Conference
Please do join us for our Annual Conference for 2025:22nd – 25th July Highgate House Conference Centre, Grooms Lane, Creaton,…
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Search for a hymn or song text: “God the Creator”
Our sister society, The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (HSUSC), is conducting a competition for “one or more…
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Search for new hymns
The Jubilate Group are looking for new hymns which local churches can use at particular moments in ordinary services –…
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Lord for the Years: Tribute to Timothy Dudley-Smith on BBC Radio 4
The first Radio 4 “Sunday Worship” of 2025 will comprise a tribute to our late Honorary Vice-President, Timothy Dudley-Smith. This…
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IN MEMORIAM – Rt Revd Timothy Dudley-Smith OBE
We note with sorrow the death on 12th August 2024 of Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith, the leading hymn writer of his…
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Annual Conference 2024: High Leigh Conference Centre
High Leigh Conference CentreLord StreetHoddesdonEN11 8SG 23rd – 26th July 2024 For Your Information Our 2024 three-day Conference is taking…
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‘A more profound alleluia’: new perspectives on Fred Pratt Green’s hymns and their legacy
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Pratt-Green Trust: A call for papers. Luther King Centre, Manchester,Thursday 14 November 2024, 10.30–5.00…
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London Regional Day
Join us for our London Regional Day Tickets £10All are welcome When Saturday, April 20th, 202410:00am – 3:30pmRegistration from 10:00amTea…
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St George’s, Paris, Bicentenary Hymn Tune Search/Competition
Out of some forty entries for the tune category from the US, Canada, the UK and continental Europe, almost two-thirds…
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Pratt Green Trust 2024 Hymn Competition
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Pratt Green Trust, new hymns are invited on the theme of Celebrating Creation…
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Isaac Watts Composition competition
An invitation to compose a new tune for one of Isaac Watts’ texts in Watts’ 350th anniversary year; closing date…