A presentation on Dove and the work of the team was given to the World Carillon Congress in Mafra, Portugal today. Delivered by our Carillon Consultant, Scott Orr, it was met with considerable interest and enthusiasm. @ccringing

4 members of the Dove Team attended the 2025 DAC Bell Advisors' Conference in Leeds. It included a presentation concerning Dove and proposals for a review of bells listed for preservation. @ccringing

We have improved the way we display the date of a bell. Where undated, we display the founder's period of activity. When submitting an estimated date for a bell please don't provide anything outside the given period or alert us if you believe the period needs correcting.

We are pleased to announce the inclusion from today of LIGHTWEIGHT RINGS in Dove, which includes the portable rings. @ccringing

Pleased to welcome Ryan Faulkner-Hatt to the Dove Team. Ryan is a young ringer from Prittlewell in Essex has a particular interest in engineering and bell history. He has joined the team to work on a new project, more of which will be announced in due course.

4 members of the Dove Team at today's annual meeting of the Central Council of Change Ringers in Exeter. @ccringing @DodgeNeal @dickonlove

The Great Bells of the British Isles have now been incorporated into the Dove Database! Seen here: dove.cccbr.org.uk/bells?geo_… @ccringing

New mapping functionality announced! Map towers by tenor weight or by numbers of ringing reports in BellBoard! dove.cccbr.org.uk/news/339 @ccringing @theringingworld

DOVE FOUNDRY FOCUS for Nov 2023 Projects marked as complete in the month, including Tedburn St Mary here. dove.cccbr.org.uk/projects?r…

We are pleased to welcome Kye Leaver to the team as our newest Dove Clerk! @KyeRinger

We are pleased to welcome Neal Dodge to the Dove Team. He has already started processing updates, specialising in particular on the queue of frame updates. @DodgeNeal @ccringing

Bellframe information can now be interrogated on Dove's Guide dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a… @ccringing

We are sorry to hear of the death of Dove Master, the Rev'd John Baldwin. dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a…

Very pleased to welcome our newest member of the Dove Team. Lewis Benfield from Leics, has joined as a Dove Clerk to help analyse and update Dove with some of the many updates we are gratefully receiving.

Over 400 edits to Dove this weekend.

A new Dove feature to customise tower selections has been launched. Instructions on the home page. @ccringing

Two new ways of viewing the results of a tower search are now available: by region (pictured here), by the number of bells and presence of semitone bells. @ccringing #bellringing

We use the World Carillon Federation definition. See dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a… The other chimes will follow in due course.

Dove's Guide has been extended to include Carillons of the British Isles! dove.cccbr.org.uk/news.php?a…

We now record and display BELL PROJECTS in the new Dove system, replacing the former manual operation. This should improve the service to readers and is important in developing tower and ring histories. This is Rodmell, the latest completed project. @ccringing #towergrabbing