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"That We May Not Forget" by Frederic Cardoze

Bookended as it was between two world wars, the interwar period of 1918 to 1939 was a time of dramatic fluctuation. From the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression...

Bells in the United Kingdom Ring in the New Year

From call changes and diminishing rounds to Plain Bob Minor and Grandsire Triples, the bells of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland thundered into the New...

The Ringing World Coverage of the 2023 Festival

The Ringing World is a magazine printed every week since 1911 by ringers, for ringers, about ringers and ringing. Across two dozen pages, the weekly...

A Bell Resounds at the Lincoln Memorial

New Year’s Day 2023 marked the exact 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863. The document...

The 2023 National Bell Festival in Review

The last reverberations from the final toll of the 2023 National Bell Festival have rippled across the skies. Spanning five continents, the fourth annual festival was...

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