Learning to ring bigger bells has been an uphill battle as a female ringer. I learned to ring at University and after seven years could ring eight spliced but would

In general I have spent my life bucking the trend on what girls and women are expected to do (sports, hobbies, career, temperament, family – well lack if it). For

I learnt to ring a bell aged 12, the daughter of a ringer, but really started my ringing journey from the age of 16. I cannot say that any of

 A few years ago, I called a peal. When it was published in the RW, I noticed I was the only female peal conductor that week. I had a millisecond's

I think there are several reasons for the imbalance, some valid, and some definitely not. Women are generally physically weaker than men, and this feeds into the idea that women

At a District Meeting two or three years ago we welcomed two male visitors. One of them had phoned in advance to check that they could come and naturally they