Reporting of the Annual Lecture
The Morpeth Herald reported this year’s annual Bibby Memorial Lecture on 13th October. Their coverage is below.
Author: Supervisor
Bibby Lecture given by Warren Maguire
This year’s annual lecture was delivered by Dr Warren Maguire, of Edinburgh University. He took as the basis of his talk Thomas Wilson’s famous poem The Pitman’s Pay and demonstrated how … Read More
2022 Lecture confirmed.
The Northumbrian Language Society 2022 Annual Lecture will be taking place in the Town Hall Corn Exchange Morpeth on the 15thOctober Our lecturer, Warren Maguire, was postponed in 2020, and … Read More
New CD Titles in the shop!
4 new CD’s are available in the Society’s shop. All are collections of songs and tunes from North east England and beyond. More details of the artists are at … Read More
Bi-lingual?
The Northumbrian Language contains words which Standard English does not. Moreover, the dialect and accent can only be expressed in print by altering the spelling of common words to better … Read More
New Chairman at NLS
At last nights Annual General meeting, A new Chairman, John Davidson, was elected following the stepping down of Stuart Lawson. John paid tribute to the sterling work done by Stuart … Read More