Index of articles 

Articles published in The Ringing World:

•  Central Council Membership: An Alternative View– Response to report by a working group on Central Council membership (1991)
•  Murder in the Belfry – Our part in the Midsomer Murders film Ring Our Your Dead about a band of bellringers (2001)
•  Review of ringing simulators (PDF) – Simulators had been around for 20 years and I compared what was then available from a user's perspective. (2004)
• Out from under the bushel – How we brought the story of bellringing to hundreds of people in the community of Wokingham(2005)
• Both Wokingham towers pealed in a day – A ringing feat only achieved once before, nearly a century ago. (2008)
• "It’s music, but not as we know it, Jim"  – How we explained the music of ringing to a room full of appreciative musicians (2008)
• The impossible takes a bit longer – Exploring the expanded remit of the Central Council of Church Bellringers' Biographies Committee (2009)
• Thinking the Unthinkable – Series of 10 articles about challenges facing the ringing community, and how it needs to change to ensure a successful future for the ancient art. (2010 – 2011)
• Maths and ringing – Enriching the curriculum of a group of talented young maths pupils by explaining the maths that underpins changeringing. (2011)
• A long winding road up the belfry steps – The story of the genesis of The New Ringer's Book (2012)
• Two Choirs Festival – with Bells – How ringing played a part in a new music festival. (2013)
• The public perception of ringing – Summary of work by Reading University students on the branding of ringing. (2014)
• Resourcing the Central Council’s work – Result of consultation with ringing societies on Central Council funding (2014). See consultation paper)
• CC ‘rules’ on peals & methods – Here we go again – A critique of the Council's approach to defining methods and peals, advocating an improved approach. (2014)
• Decisions, decisions – A series of articles explaining the role of the Council's Decisions on methods and peals and discussing ways in which they are controversial. (2016)
• The pullometer challenge – Explaining the need for a pullometer and the work done so far as background to announcing awards for anyone who successfully develops one. (2016)
• Ringing for the Queen's 90th birthday -- Report on over 1300 performances that marked her real and ceremonial birthdays. (2016)
• The alternative hobbyist – article on the fascinating story of brickwork. (2017)
• A correction (and a bit of interesting history) – The rather complex story of when ringing was and was not allowed during the 1914-18 war. (2017)
• The pullometer challenge (part 1) – Describing the device that won part 1 of the challenge (feasibility). (2018)
• The pullometer challenge (part 2) – Describing work done on other devices and the way ahead to part 2 of the challenge (marketability). (2018)
• The pullometer challenge (update) – Review of progress and issues faced by developers a year on. (2018)
•  The pullometer challenge (update 2) – Review of further progress. (2019)
• A different approach to special lengths – Describing an alternative to date touches for ringing on special occasions. (2018)
• Public ringing – Discussion of why we ring for some things and not others, and how well we communicate why we are ringing to our audience. (2019)
• Recording performances retrospectively – Discussion of the need to reconcile different versions of information when publishing historic performances on BellBoard (2019)
• Ringing society statistics – Plots the changes in number of ringers between 2002 & 2019. (2019)
• The effect of war on ringing – Describes the effect of two world wars on the membership of Sonning Deanery ringers, both during and afterwards. (2020)
• Exploring CO2 measurement – Describes work to understand thefactors influencing ventilation in the tower at All Saints Wokingham (2021)
• Ringing biographies – past, present and future? – Reviews the evolution of how the lives of notable ringers have been recorded and discusses the possibility of a 'hub' to give access to diverse sources online. (2022)
• How did 2022 really go? (contribution) – The view of membership and attendance at All Saints Wokingham (2022)
• The Wokingham Curfew – Its history from 1264 to 1982 (2024)

The Learning Curve

• The Learning Curve – 102 articles about learning ringing published in The Ringing World between 1999 and 2007 under the pseudonym Tail End. Now available from the CC website,  and in book form from CC Publications.
• Beyond The Learning Curve – Occasional later articles by Tail End, published in The Ringing World from 2012 onwards.
 

Articles published in Sonning Deanery Ringers' Newsletter:

• Roll up, Roll up – Explanation of 'roll ups', which are a musical feature of changeringing. (2009)
• Rope spiders – Some interesting ones seen on the Branch ringing outing. (2009)
• Is change ringing music?  – Characteristics that change ringing shares and doesn't share with other forms of music. (2009)
• Us and Them  – Series of 7 articles about the relationship between ringers and non-ringers, including how to foster greater awareness in the public at large, and how to attract new ringers. (2010 – 2011)
• Getting comfortable – Article about the importance of working with a bell, rather than fighting it. (2012)
• Simulators in training  – Overview of benefits and a bit of background. (2013)
• Helping ringers get more out of ringing – Explaining the benefits of mentoring and encouraging it (2015)
• Striking session – Report of a session on striking, using Cirel, with feedback from participants. (2019)
•  1000 pealers – Article about local ringers who have rung 1000 peals. (2020)
• Focused practices – Article about how ringing practices have evolved (2022)
• Ringing Forums – Article about a new forum for bellringers (2022)
• Reading between the lines – Article about trends in practice cancellations (2023)
• More to ringing than pulling the ropes – Article about bellringing composition (2024)
• Change ringing in hand – a hidden art – Article about a rewarding but under-exploited side of ringing (2024)

Articles published in All Saints Wokingham Parish Magazine:

• Articles for non-ringers about all aspects of ringing  – Many different topics (from 1995 – present)

Other articles and papers

• All change at the Central Council – Report of a momentous meeting of the Central Council, written for Odd Bob (newsletter of the ODG) (2002)
• Different ways of teaching -- Reflections on running a session on teaching methods at the Wigan MTM course (2003)
•  Training of young people – Conclusions of a study by the CCCBR Education Committee into the recruitment and training of young ringers. It followed an earlier Discussion paper. (2005)
•  What did the Romans ever do for us? – Presentation to training meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers about the impact of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers on the training of ringers (2006)
• Spinning a web – The story of how All Saints tower website developed, and an analogy with a spider's web (2007)
• Lowering in peal – what happens in the transition? – Discussion of the difference between perception and reality in 'an ideal lower' (2008).
• Helping the right things to happen everywhere  – Thoughts on joining the CCCBR on its role in helping to publicise ringing (2008/2013)
• Biographies Committee – initial thoughts – Personal thoughts about how to develop the work of the Committee that I had just joined rather unexpectedly (2009/2011)
• Turn over a few stones ... – The story of how my book Living Heritage came to be written (2009)
• FE Robinson – Prolific, visionary bellringer –Tribute in The Wokingham Times on the centenary of his death (2010)
• Structure & strategy – Initial thoughts following an initial meeting to develop a 'strategy for a healthy future of ringing’. A lot still seems relevant. (2010)
• What opportunities does technology offer us? – Introduction to one of the sessions at a workshop on the future of ringing in Wellesbourne (2011)
• Striking on 12 – Questions about how to interpret advice given (2011)
•  Heating system behaviour – Analysis of heating at All Saints Wokingham based on measured data and theoretical calculations (2011)
• Good striking – Explanation and advice on what good striking is and how to achieve it. (2012)
• Fitting in – Advice on how ringers can achieve good striking by fitting in with each other (2012)
• Training ringers: What's the problem? – Talk given to Suffolk Guild AGM (2012)
• Speech to the 2012 Snowdon lunch  – York (2012)
• Welcome to the Wonderful World of Bellringing  – Written for Recruitment & Training Forum (for a shorter version see the 2015 summary below.) (2012)
• What do you offer your ringers  – Paper for the Recruitment & Training Forum, October 2012
•  Where to learn – Ideas for a website to help anyone interested in ringing to find a suitable place to learn (2012)
• Car park ergonomics – Article for The Ergonomist (October 2013) [See more information ]
• Review of Central Council PR Committee work against Terms of Reference (2013)
• Creating England's soundscape  –Summary of ringing for the layman (based on longer 2012 original, above) (2015)
• Outside the bubble – Article on PR for ART Works, newsletter of the Association of Ringing Teachers 
• Resourcing the Central Council’s work – A review of how the Council is funded.   Consultation responses.   Proposed way ahead. (2014)
• RTFM – Article for Odd Bob  about learning ringing skills, and about books that can help you to do so (2014)
• Decisions on methods & peals – the case for review – Paper to the CCCBR Admin Committee (2014)
• Ringers as individual members of an (inter)national ringing body – Some initial thoughts – Paper to the CCCBR Admin Committee (2014)
• History of ringing in Wokingham – Series of articles for The Wokingham Paper: Bellringing dynasties,   Wokingham's bells,   How the Victorians changed the face of bellringing,   Longevity in the bell tower,    All Saints bell tower – change and decay (2016)
  [Later articles: Women in the bell tower (2019), Ringing in wartime (2020)]
• A theology of ringing? – My attempt to explain the customs and ethos of ringing to help clergy and other church members put it into their context. (2017)
• A reporter called –  Five fictional interviews between a journalist and a ringer, with a postscript reflecting on them (2017)
• Changing the perception of the Central Council – Background to Motions E & F at the Council meeting in Portsmouth. Speech proposing the motions (2016) The result of passing Motion E was Decision K. The result of passing Motion F was CRAG (Council Review Action Group), whose recommendations were accepted in 2017, leading to reformed Council rules in 2018.
• Speech to Universities Association 75th anniversary dinner – Adderbury (2018)
• It's music Jim, but not as we know it – Article about ringing and music written for Wokingham Choral Society newsletter. (2020)
• Ringing and wartime – Article for Wokingham U3A newsletter. (2020)
• Railway memories – Article for Wokingham U3A newsletter. (2020)
•  Imperfect OCR – Extract from 2019 paper on biographic research for bellringers explaining why scanned documents might not always contain what you think they do. (2023)
•  Gorrick observations – Investigations to explain features in the lidar images of Gorrick Wood. (2023)
• Bricks found during restoration work at All Saints church, Wokingham – Article published in The British Brick Society Information 154, (2023)
• The knot centre problem – Based on work done around 1970 to explore how the centre of a nominally spherical decorative knot could be constructed (2024)

Articles & course notes about learning methods

• Coursing order 
• Method diagrams
• Learning a method as a variant of another 
• Grandsire Doubles  
• Stedman Triples 

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