Like the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada’s occasional papers, The Hymn Society in Great Britain and Ireland publishes papers on a variety of topics. Their papers are available for an online fee and can be downloaded. A list of topics that these papers cover are below:
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Newly Published Papers
Hymns and War – J.R. Watson
The Cambridge Carol Book – Gordon Giles
Faith, Hymns and Poetry – Timothy Dudley-Smith
Worshipping Caretakers: the Creation and our Stewardship of it in Hymnody – Alan Hall
Historic Papers
Occasional Papers 1 No. 1
The Constituents of a Good Hymn
by W. T. Cairns (1939)
Occasional Papers 1 No. 2
Reality in Worship
by Frederick John Gillman, (1939)
Occasional Papers 1 No. 3
Music in Hymnody
by Millar Patrick (1945)
Occasional Papers 1 No. 4
The Hymn Writers of Bristol
by K. L. Parry (1946)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 1
Looking at Hymn Tunes: The Objective Factors
by John Wilson (1991)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 2
Susanna and Catherine Winkworth
by Peter Skrine (1992)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 3
Hymns and an Orthodox Dissenter: in Commemoration of Bernard Lord Manning 1892-1941
by Clyde Binfield (1992)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 4
A Hymn Book Survey 1980 – 1993
by Donald Webster (1994)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 5
John Darwall and the 148th Metre
by John Wilson (2002)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 6
A Hymn Book Survey 1993-2003
by Alan Luff (2003)
Occasional Papers 2 No. 7
The Wit and Wisdom of Percy Dearmer
by Alan Luff (2006)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 1
Snakes and Ladders – A Hymn Writer’s Reflections
by Timothy Dudley-Smith (2008)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 2
What do Hymns Say About Daily Work?
by David R. Wright (2009)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 3
Revealing Hidden Wisdom – Women Finding a Voice in Hymnody
by June Boyce-Tillman (2010)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 4
Redefining the Hymn: The Performative Context
by Katherine Jenkins with an extended introduction by Rhidian Griffiths (2010)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 5
‘Race Shall Thy Works Praise Unto Race’: The Development of Metrical Psalmody in Scotland
by Graham S. Deans (2011)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 6
Hymns Ancient & Modern 1861 – 2013: Its Rise, Development and Influence
by James Dickinson (2013)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 7
Worshipping Caretakers: The Creation and our Stewardship of it in Hymnody
by Alan Hall (2014)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 8
Faith, Hymns and Poetry
by Timothy Dudley-Smith (2016)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 9
The Cambridge Carol Book
by Gordon Giles (2017)
Occasional Papers 3 No. 10
Hymns and War
by J.R. Watson. (2018)