Interactive Bulletin Indexes

The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland are pleased to provide this interactive Bulletin index for all visitors to the website.

The index tables will cover every issue of the Bulletin since the first issue in 1937. They are searchable, downloadable and printable and each entry will link to the relevant Bulletin article, however, the links to the Bulletins will only be accessible to members of the Society who are logged into the website.

A deep debt of gratitude goes to Terence Atkins who produced the Classified Index to Vols I to X which appeared in 1986 and since then he has produced the Index to each and every subsequent volume. The recent printing and issuing to members of Index XX is something of a milestone in his endeavours. His work on Volumes I - XVII were turned into an Access database, and only made available to members of the Society. We are grateful for their work.

This is very much a work in progress.

The Executive of The Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Information on using the indexes

Headings: The top heading bar is sticky and scrolls with the page on larger screens which is particularly useful when a large number of entries has been selected.

Number of Entries: You can alter the number of entries shown in the table, 10 is the default but you can also show 20, 50 and 100 items if you wish. Please bear in mind some of the tables are rather long!

Sorting: all columns are able to be sorted alpha-numerically. Click on the column title for this. The first column is already sorted alpha-numerically on all indexes.

Searching: There is a search function above each table which is useful with larger indexes, e.g. Authors where, if you type in the word hymnody this will currently return 85 results whereas hymn returns 898.

Copying and Printing: The index can be printed or downloaded as a CSV file which can be opened in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. If you have the ability to print as PDF this can be selected with the Print button. If used in conjunction with the search facility, only those records shown in the search will be included in the print out.

Links: Page numbers are used for the links - active links, where the contents have been digitsed, are bold and gold eg 56 whereas the non linked page numbers are light blue and normal eg 57. Linked articles will open the relevant Bulletin number and the article will be scrolled to in a new tab. Members have access to the articles. Some of the links will go to the main article where the item is referred to within an article.

Please get in touch with any comments, questions or suggestions using the webmaster form on the Contact page.

1. Authors

Please click on the title above the column to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. The author names are already sorted in this way. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article

2. Subjects
(excluding reviews and obituaries)

Please click on the column title to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. The subjects are already sorted in this way. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article

3. Reviews Other Than Hymnals and Collections

Please click on the column title to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. The author names are already sorted in this way. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article

4. Reviews of Hymnals and Collections

5. Comments on Hymns

Please click on the column title to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. The hymn title is already sorted in this way. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article

6. Comments on Hymn Tunes

Please click on the column title to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. The Tune names are already sorted in this way. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article

7. Obituaries

Please click on the column title to sort any of the columns alphanumerically. This table is already sorted by names. Numbers that are bold and gold eg 56 are links to the relevant article