The top peal on BellBoard at the moment is up-and-coming youngster Michael Shaw calling Horton's Four on handbells, for his first peal as conductor. From 3-4. This is really impressive - very well done, Michael.

When we rang Horton's Four with the Albany Quadrant band, I summarised the handbell performances...

For those who don't know, "What's hot on BellBoard" is a weekly feature in the Ringing World which prints and comments on the top five performances. At the time of writing (7th December 2020), for the first time in a while, all of the top five are peals. Unsurprisingly in the current...

We used to write a monthly round-up of other people's handbell activities, highlighting firsts and notable performances. After a while it became too much effort to keep up, so we stopped, but there have been some interesting peals recently, so here's a summary.

Although there's a lot of online ringing...

There was a lot of handbell ringing going on at New Year - we did some too, with a handbell day at Tulloch. Combined with the rest fo January, there has been quite a crop of firsts and other notable achievements.

First quarters

• Myles Dakan rang his first quarter of Cambridge...

Here is our handbell roundup for December 2014.  The Christmas period offers a good time for groups of friends to get together and do a lot of handbell ringing (this is what the holidays are for, right?), and quite a few people did just that. 

Notable firsts:

• Alison Lucas has...

Here is our (rather late) handbell roundup for November 2014......

Notable firsts:

• Lorenz Halbeisen has rung her first peal (could be the first Swiss change ringer?)
• Angela Deakin has been persuaded to ring inside to surprise, as has Emma Standford.....
• David Richards has rung his first quarter in hand.
• 1st...