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Northumbria celebrates in style.! In memory of our own Bard, Fred Reed, we pipe (Northumbrian, of course!) in a giant stooty and then sing its praises. It gets a chance … Read More

Northumbrian dialect is back!   at 4:30 Pm on April 10th, and available for the following week, you can enjoy 58 minutes of Northumbrian at

After the events of 2020, we are all hoping for a better 2021, so let us all decide to pay attention to our bio-security and emerge from the perpetual lockdown … Read More

The National Dialect Festival, due to be held at the Black Country Museum,  is not taking pace. Although the Lakeland Dialect Society offered to run an event, that too has … Read More

Yes, they’re cancelling Christmas ! The Yule meet, due to take place on December 20th, is cancelled.  The Covid crisis looks like being worse by then, and the majority of … Read More

Dr Warren Maguire, of the University of Edinburgh will deliver the 2020 Roland Bibby Commemorative Lecture with his talk “The Pitman’s Pay”: Early 19th century Tyneside dialect writing and its pronunciation. … Read More