Go with organist colleagues to an organ recital at the Royal Festival Hall, and sooner or later someone will strike up a nostalgic lament for Wednesdays at 5.55. Harry Hoyle has just published a history of this extraordinary series of weekly organ recitals on the RFH organ, which lasted for 34 years. His engaging account will interest both organists and anyone fascinated by the social history of classical music performance in the second half of the twentieth century.

The 2017 edition of the College’s annual research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition.

The 2016 edition of the College’s annual research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 3, 2009 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 4, 2010 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 2, 2008 can be downloaded here.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 1 (New Series), 2007 can be downloaded here.

In just six nights of bombing during the Second World War, the City of London lost 26 organs. Seventy years later, David S. Knight surveyed what was lost, and charted the heroic efforts to bring music back to shattered churches.

The 2015 edition of the College’s annual research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition.