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Submitting and browsing ringing records is quick and easy on BellBoard – you can also confirm performances for print publication in The Ringing World. We hope that you enjoy using BellBoard.

Long footnotes

When submitting performances for print in the Ringing World, please consider the space taken up by long footnotes. In particular, we ask readers to avoid quoting large parts of the WWI Roll of Honour as well as extra information, where this former text has already been printed in these pages. When submitting performances to the RW from BellBoard you can edit the text that will appear in print; please consider abridging this from the version on BellBoard, where there are no space restrictions. We reserve the right to edit longer footnotes, but would prefer to print as submitted where possible.

RWNYC 2018

The eighth Ringing World National Youth Contest will take place on Saturday, 7th July 2018 in London, hosted by the Southwark Cathedral Society of Bellringers, where 22 teams will be competing for the Whitechapel Trophy.

We’re particularly pleased to welcome the Brumdingers, Bucks and Berks Young Ringers and Go Bellistic!, all of whom are entering the contest for the first time.

There will be three qualifying heats in the morning and the top 2 teams from each heat will go through to the final at St James Garlickhythe in the afternoon. In addition to the contest, there will be the opportunity for competitors to ring at other towers in London, handbell ringing workshops and other activities! Details of the day will be published in due course.

This week's issue

Purchase PDF version of issue 5586 (18 May 2018).
Also available in high resolution.

Our featured performance

Windsor, Berkshire

Curfew Tower, HM Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle

Saturday, 19 May 2018 in 0h47 (26 in C♯)

1260 Grandsire Triples

Composed by John Carter

1 Edgar Skipsey

2 Vikki Bulbeck

3 Vernon Bedford

4 Edward Westlake

5 Stephen Smith II

6 James White (C)

7 William Stungo

8 John Payne

Following the wedding of H.R.H. Prince Henry of Wales and Ms Meghan Markle, and during the carriage procession.

The band tenor (left) to treble (right).

Other highly-rated performances

19 May 2018	Inveraray (All Saints)	5082 Bristol Surprise Royal
22 May 2018	Salford (Sacred Trinity)	1320 Cambridge Surprise Minor
17 May 2018	Milton (St Blaise)	5070 Hardwick Hall Alliance Major
19 May 2018	Beverley (St Mary)	5039 Grandsire Caters

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Upcoming events

Friday	St Marmadukes — E Riding Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild — N&E Surprise Major practice, Pimlico 19:00 – 20:30 Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild — S&W District 10-bell practice, Fulham 19:30 - 21:15
Saturday	****PLEASE NOTE LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL PRACTICE HAS BEEN CANCELLED **** Peterborough Diocesan Guild — GUILD TEN-BELL PRACTICE Kegworth Leics-surprise major practice Southwell and Nottingham Diocesan Guild — Mansfield & Newark Districts Joint Meeting, Cuckney, 7pm C.D.G. Wirral Branch. — Meeting Backford & Capenhurst Peterborough Diocesan Guild — Northampton Branch Suffolk Guild — NW District quarter peal week Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild — Open Eight Bell Striking Competition, Stains 15:45 Four Shires Guild of Bell Ringers — SATURDAY EVENING PRACTICE Derby Diocesan Association — Southern District Surprise Major Practice at West Hallam 2.30pm - 4pm Irish Association — St Patrick's Cathedral End-of-season outing: Kilkenny Cathedral
Sunday	Chester Diocesan Guild — East Branch - 8 Bell training at Hayfield 2.30 - 4.30 pm
Monday	Truro Diocesan Guild — Improvers practice - 1930hrs at Callington
Tuesday	Central Council Ringing Tour

Older features

25th Jan 2016: If you wish to have a group of quarter peals printed together, for example those rung for a district quarter peal week, please create an event for it, enable Linked performances and then select Collate performances in The Ringing World. Please ensure that all performances get associated with this event before (or at least shortly after) the performance submitter sends them for print so they can be caught and collated. This can be done either by the person who submitted the performance, or by the owner of the event; for performances imported from Campanophile, only the latter is possible.
24th Jan: We now have an RSS feed of news bulletins from the front page of BellBoard.
25th Oct 2015: Users who subscribe to The Ringing World may now see this week's issue in PDF format linked prominently from the front page of BellBoard. If you are a subscriber and do not see it when logged in, this is probably because we were unable to link your BellBoard account to your subscription automatically. Contact us and we will link them manually. We also have a library of back issues allowing users to access any issues from your period of subscription. These currently go back to 2011, but we hope to continue that to 2001; they will remain available indefinitely.
6th Aug: A new page shows the days of the year on which you've rung peals or other performances.
4th Jul: It is now possible to download a PDF version of any performance by clicking on the PDF icon in the updated navigation menu above the performance. Many of the old options on that menu have been relegated to a new edit menu marked with a pencil icon. The left and right arrows (or the arrow keys on the keyboard) navigate to the previous and next performances, and the new up arrow returns you to the list. We would be interested in opinions on this new style of menu, especially regarding their usability on phones and tablets.
2nd Jul: BellBoard now tracks the donations you've made, and allows UK tax payers to fill in a Gift Aid declaration allowing The Ringing World to claim 25p from HMRC for every £1.00 donated. This is all linked from the new-look account page, formerly the user preferences page.
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