This article uses the editorial work of Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams on The English Hymnal (1906) to argue that at the turn of the twentieth century, evocations of the past, of national and of folk culture were not necessarily nostalgic or conservative, but were often used by those on the left to make strongly political statements about the …
Occasional Papers 2 No7: The Wit and Wisdom of Percy Dearmer
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Treasure No 32: Percy Dearmer, Hymnologist
Treasure No 32: Percy Dearmer, Hymnologist by Erik Routley: An article from Bulletin 111, Winter 1967 A paper delivered at the 1967 Conference in London. he hymn singing of protestant England has passed through several quite distinct historical phases. The earliest, if we take Isaac Watts as the starting point of a whole era, is the tradition of hymn singing …