“Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906

English Hymnal 1906

By Katie Palmer HeathmanTaken from: Cultural and Social History The Journal of the Social History Society Volume 14, 2017 – Issue 2 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2017.1290995Abstract The lead editors of The English Hymnal (1906), Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams, found Victorian hymnody in need of serious revision, and not just aesthetically. This musical book was intended as an expression of the editors’ … Read More