This page is designed to help editors and producers of regional ringing newsletters.
You can reprint any of the content here in online publications or in print. We ask for an attribution that it came from The Ringing World, plus any other details (e.g. author or photographer) noted on specific items below. You can decide on the exact wording - if you want to be more enthusiastic about encouraging your readers to subscribe to the Comic, please do!
If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions about any of the content below, you can email the editor.
October 2025
The Ringing World 2026 Calendar
Our 2026 calendar has fantastic photographs of spires, sunsets and vistas around the world, including Wales, Ireland and the USA. You can download some images below to use in your newsletter.
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Front cover (Download)
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Montage picture (Download)
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Single photo (Download) (Please also credit photographer Nicholas Sturgess) |
Back cover (includes details of all featured towers) (Download)
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If one of our calendar photos this year was in your local area and you want to help us with local publicity or contacts, please get in touch!
An Inspiring Image
This image by Jane Lynch featured as a Ringing World 'Image of the Week' in September. The Yorkshire Tykes are the Yorkshire Association's youth ringing group and are a force to be reckoned with! They went on an outing to Liverpool and rang at both heavy rings of twelve in the city centre: the 41cwt Pier Head, and Liverpool Cathedral, the heaviest ring of bells in the world at a whopping 82cwt! Even more impressive, Jane reports that several of the young Tykes had a go at ringing the Cathedral tenor - it's big enough to scare off plenty of fully-grown-up ringers! The Ringing World is looking forward to seeing all the youth teams from around the country square up to the Tykes at the 2026 Ringing World National Youth Contest, which will be held in Nottingham in July. It's the best day in the ringing calendar!
If you've taken a fun, inspiring, interesting or beautiful photo connected with ringing, do share it with the Ringing World and you might see it in print soon!
Doubles of the Month
Each week we print a short article which focuses on a monthly doubles method, principle, variation or call. Here's a sample: in June we featured Kennington Doubles, a simple doubles variation, and it gave us an excuse to talk about ringing Plain Bob Doubles by the treble. You can use the text or images as you like.
Suggested files if you are creating your newsletter with Microsoft Word:
- Text only (Word document)
- Diagram One: Plain Course of Bob Doubles with treble passing places highlighted (PNG format)
- Diagram Two: Reverse Canterbury Bob (PNG format)
Other formats
(A note on file formats: It's best to use the EPS or PDF versions if you can, or lay out the individual diagrams and text in your own newsletter as above. The full JPG file is likely to come out a little 'fuzzy' in print - but it should work OK as a last resort.)
- PDF of text and diagrams as printed in RW
- EPS of text and diagrams as printed in RW
- JPG of text and diagrams as printed in RW
- Diagram One: Plain Course of Bob Doubles with treble passing places highlighted (PDF format)
- Diagram Two: Reverse Canterbury Bob (PDF format)
The Little Blue Ringing Book
Our exciting book release this autumn is The Little Blue Ringing Book - a useful reference for every ringer and every tower. Fitting in our book series between the 'green book' and the 'purple book', it covers methods ranging in difficulty from Plain Bob Doubles to Little Bob Major - it’s packed with interesting and enjoyable methods which are less complicated than Stedman or surprise minor. See more detail at https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/purchase/shop/the-little-blue-ringing-book.html and order from the online shop: https://shop.ringingworld.co.uk.
Christmas merchandise order form and insert
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Please help us sell our Christmas merchandise! This includes the 2026 calendar and diary, a new teatowel design, our new educational blue book, and a range of Christmas cards. If you'd like to email out a copy of the publicity poster as a PDF file (download), thank you! (Subscribers received copies of these in the 3rd Oct issue of the RW.) The paper order form is also available here, but we prefer people to use the online shop if possible - they will get the best prices, quickest delivery and the full range of items!