[Bell Historians] Circulation history

[John Harrison]

In article
<DBBPR07MB7529A8A4CA5AFA0CD9E9A425FCF3A at DBBPR07MB7529.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>,
   Robert Brown via Bell-historians
<bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:
> Thats really interrsting but to look at future trends there a number of
> key factors

Agreed the future will be different, for several reasons.  I'm not trying
to extrapolate forwards, I'm interested in what happened in the past.

Before 1994 the Ringing World (and Bell News) was the only communication
channel for ringers apart from cascading information down through
societies and towers. 

But the 6k in 1970 was between 15 & 20% of the number of ringers.  Did
enough of those who did subscribe take their copy to the tower for
everyone to see it?  If not then a lot of ringers were not on any network
other than la local grapevine.

If Goldsmith's claim is correct then in the 1920s 25-30% of ringers
subscribed.  And if the custom of taking copies into towers was as
widespread as his continual complaints suggest then maybe most ringers
were connected.

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