The English Hymnal

Publication History:

The English Hymnal (1906): Archive.org
[Special revision] (1907)
New Edition (1933)
English Hymnal Service Book (1962)
English Praise (1975)
New English Hymnal (1986): Hymnary
New English Praise (2006): Hymnary
The Revised English Hymnal (2023)

see also:

Oxford Book of Carols (1928)
Songs of Praise

1st ed. (1925)
Enlarged (1931)
Discussed (1933)

Related Resources: 

Erik Routley, “English Hymnal and Ancient & Modern,” HSGBI Bulletin, no. 38 (Jan. 1947), pp. 9–12

The First Fifty Years: A Brief Account of The English Hymnal from 1906 to 1956 (Oxford: University Press, 1956): WorldCat

Erik Routley, “The English Hymnal, 1906–1956,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 2 (Summer 1956), pp. 17–26.

A.J.B. Hutchings, “The literary aspects of The English Hymnal,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 3 (Summer 1956), pp. 33–49.

A.E.F. Dickinson, “Vaughan Williams’s Musical Editorship,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 12 (Winter 1959), pp. 188–190.

Cyril Taylor, “The English Hymnal Service Book” [review], HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 8 (Summer 1962), pp. 111–118.

Erik Routley, “Percy Dearmer, Hymnologist,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 9 (Winter 1967), pp. 169–186: Website

Bernard Massey, “English Praise” [review], HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 10 (June 1976), pp. 167–170.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, “The Influence of Folk-Song on the Music of the Church,” National Music and Other Essays, 2nd ed. (Oxford: University Press, 1987), pp. 74–82: Amazon

John Bawden, Towards a National Music: Vaughan Williams and the Hymnals, dissertation (University of Surrey, 2002).

John Bawden, “Vaughan Williams and the Hymnals: A New Perspective,” Journal of the RVW Society, no. 29 (February 2004), pp. 4–11: PDF

Alan Luff, ed., Strengthen For Service: 100 Years of The English Hymnal (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2005): WorldCat

James Dickinson, “The English Hymnal,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 5 (January 2007), pp. 152–165.

Hugh Benham, “Thirteen original tunes by Ralph Vaughan Williams for The English Hymnal and Songs of Praise,” Journal of the RVW Society, no. 52 (October 2011).

Michael Tavinor, “English Hymnal,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/e/english-hymnal

See also:

Percy Dearmer
Ralph Vaughan Williams