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RSCM Music Sunday
Jan / 2024
New for 2024! Vote now for your favourite hymn! The RSCM are planning to produce a set of downloadable resources…
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2,000 Years of Christian Song
Jan / 2024
A one-day workshop at St Columba’s House, Woking on Saturday 13th April 2024, 10:00 – 16:00 A workshop learning about the…
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New Page – External Links
Oct / 2023
We have added a new page in the Resources section of our website. External Links is a list links to…
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St George’s Paris Anglican Church Bicentenary Hymn / Tune Competition – Hymn update
Aug / 2023
The winner of the words competition, now selected from an international field of quality entries, turned out to be none…
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Festival of Church Music
Apr / 2023
The Free Church Choirs are calling for interested singers (or choirs) to join in this inspiring occasion. Choir books have…
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2023 Conference
Apr / 2023
Our 2023 three-day Conference is taking place at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln; the first time the Society has visited…
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Hymn Competition
Mar / 2023
St George’s, Paris – Bicentenary Hymn Text and Tune Search/Competition St George’s Paris want to sing a new hymn for their…
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Journey to Resurrection
Feb / 2023
The Jubilate Group are looking for new words and / or music for congregational songs for Holy Week and Easter,…
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Annual Conference 2022 Photos
Aug / 2022
A collection of photos taken by Andrew Pratt at our 2022 Annual Conference…
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Hymn Singing Weekend
May / 2022
Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July 2022 Sing favourite classics from Hymns Ancient and Modern from Monkland – the home…
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Annual Conference 2022
Mar / 2022
26th July – 29th July 2022 Cartmel College Lancaster University Alexandra Park Drive LANCASTER LA2 0LT Our 2022 three-day Conference…
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What we still owe Erik Routley
Feb / 2022
What we still owe Erik Routley is an online lecture by Nancy L. Graham, Thursday March 10 at 11:00am (Eastern…
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‘Shake off dull sloth’ – Vintage hymns: a lazy option? with Gillian Warson
Feb / 2022
How often do we fall back on blithely singing our favourite hymns irrespective of their suitability? Is singing vintage hymns…
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Vintage Hymns at Salisbury
Jan / 2022
Singing Day Saturday 5th March 2022 10am–4pm St Andrew’s Church, Newton Tony, near Salisbury SP4 0HF Led by Phil Price,…
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Amazing Grace and its legacies: reflections at 250
Oct / 2021
15-16 July 2022, The Open University and Olney Parish Church Call for Papers John Newton’s ‘Amazing grace’ can lay claim…
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Using Vintage Hymns in Worship
Jul / 2021
Book Launch! 8pm BST on Monday 12 July 2021 Gillian Warson’s new book ‘Using Vintage Hymns in Worship’ will be…
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Praying for Our Planet
Jun / 2021
Our Bulletin Editor and hymn-writer, Andrew Pratt, is the Hymn Writer in Residence at Bramhall Methodist Church for their Praying…
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Thoughts on ‘welkin‘and ‘Hark the herald angels sing’
Jan / 2021
From our Bulletin Editor Andrew Pratt: The Methodist blog has recently had this entry and I thank Judith Simms for…
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Words, Images and Imagination – Andrew Pratt
Nov / 2020
This unique collection of original poems, watercolour prints and photos, all by the author, explores life in all its fullness…
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Creativity out of crisis: Hymns and worship webinar in association with RSCM
Sep / 2020
Monday 19 October, 11am – 1pm All of church and worship life has been transformed in recent months. What of…
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ChOPiN – Church Organ Products in Nigeria
Sep / 2020
Our member Lanre Delano and his colleagues in Nigeria have been producing recordings of well-loved hymns and posting these week…
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How can we keep from singing?
Jun / 2020
Postponed indefinitely due to COVID19 restrictions We hope to reschedule sometime next yearGod’s people have always worshipped in music and…
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The Rev’d Canon Alan Luff RIP
Apr / 2020
Dear Hymn Society Friends, I very much regret that I have to inform you of the death of one of…
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Songs for Sighing 29th February 2020
Feb / 2020
Psalms for the Common Era Hebrew Psalms in Modern Metrical English for Individuals, Choirs and Congregations. Songs for Sighing Healing…
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Study Day on Psalms: Saturday 6th June
Feb / 2020
A study of the book of Psalms, with a chance to sing several, will be held at St. John’s Church,…
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Vintage Hymns: Saturday 7th March
Feb / 2020
Following a successful event at St Gregory’s Church, Sudbury last October, our members, Phil Price and Nicholas Markwell, are holding…
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Martin Ellis RIP
Feb / 2020
Dear Hymn Society members, I am very sorry to have to let you know, if you have not already heard,…
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Graham Maule RIP
Jan / 2020
With great sadness, we have learned of the death of Graham Maule, whose collaboration with John Bell in authoring hymns…
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Echoes of a Distant Music, by John Crothers
Oct / 2019
Book Launch – Save The Date! If you happen to be anywhere near Belfast, N Ireland, on 22nd November, feel…
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Vintage Hymns
Sep / 2019
If you live within travelling distance of Sudbury, Suffolk, there is a Hymn Festival taking place next Saturday, 5th October…
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Annual Conference 2019 – Canterbury – audio files
Jul / 2019
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Hymn Festival – American Church, Paris
May / 2019
There was a unique opportunity on 11 May 2019 for everyone in the Paris area, plus day visitors from abroad,…
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Annual Conference 2019 – Canterbury
Feb / 2019
The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference – Canterbury Our 2019 two-day Conference was held on the…
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London Regional Day
Jan / 2019
The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland – London Regional Day The People’s Song – Three Key Traditions The…
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Singing Welcome II
Nov / 2018
Singing Welcome II: Hymns and Songs of Hospitality to Refugees and Immigrants Search for New Hymns / Songs In May,…
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Hymnology Collections
Oct / 2018
Hymnology Collections – Libraries containing hymn-related resources Around the UK and Ireland are libraries that hold hymnology collections in their…
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Hymns of Peace – the winner!
Sep / 2018
The winner of Jubilate’s Hymns of Peace competiton is Hope for the World’s Despair by Ally Barrett. A flagship recording of the winning hymn,…
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New interactive Bulletin index
Apr / 2018
Latest News from the website: We have just created an interactive index for the Bulletin which covers almost every issue…
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A Focus On Welsh Hymnody
Apr / 2018
A Focus On Welsh Hymnody Saturday 5th May, 2018 1:00pm Chilwell Road Methodist Church, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1EH Free Entry…
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Annual Conference 2018 – Bishop Burton College
Jan / 2018
The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Conference – Bishop Burton College Our Annual Conference this year was…
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Hymns of Peace
Jan / 2018
Hymns of Peace 2018. Jubilate have announced a new hymn competition in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day:…
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‘When Two Stars Collide’
Oct / 2017
A new hymn text from Andrew Pratt Two stars collide, but love is not diminished,while ripples thunder out through time…
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‘What does it Mean to Sing a Hymn?’
Aug / 2017
What does it mean to sing a hymn? What does it mean to sing a hymn? Are these just empty…
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Charles Wood Summer School and Festival, Northern Ireland
Aug / 2017
Charles Wood Summer School & Festival, Armagh, Northern Ireland in collaboration with the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland……
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Ruthie Thomas in Western Telegraph
Jul / 2017
Ruthie returns to land that inspired her hymns Hymn writer and gospel singer Ruthie Thomas, who lived in Tenby for…
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Annual Conference 2017 – Carmarthen
Jul / 2017
All the latest from the Conference… 18th – 21st July 2017 7 lectures covering a wide range of themes:Wyn James:…
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300th Anniversary of the Birth of Williams Pantycelyn Celebrated
Jul / 2017
Flame in the Mountains A book which is being published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the birth of…
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Keith and Kristyn Getty recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
Jun / 2017
Keith and Kristyn Getty are long-time members of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. We rejoice with them…
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“Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906
Jun / 2017
By Katie Palmer Heathman Taken from: Cultural and Social History The Journal of the Social History Society Volume 14, 2017…
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Anne Harrison receives the Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship
Jun / 2017
Many congratulations to Executive Committee member Anne Harrison on receiving the Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship from the Archbishop of…