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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

You knew it would happen, of course, as the situation got worse.  We have had to cancel the lecture planned for October 10th has been cancelled.

Yes, we have a new website, and you’re reading it.  As of 8th September 2020  

Nick Short, one of our very esteemed ‘elder statesmen’ has been in the news recently. see the full page spread in the local paper here

T shirts are now available in the shop.