Esther Asprey
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Dialectologist and historical sociolinguist in the Black Country. Learner of Celtic languages.
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Mel Roxby-Mackey
6 days ago
Here's a shout out to the
#archaeology
community. The Offa's Dyke Association is about to publish a fully bilingual book in Cymraeg and English, details to be released soon. It set us to wondering though, if, or how many, other such publications exist? If so, we'd love to hear about them!
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The Black Country Dying Museum
10 days ago
19th century bird and vine carving at Lichfield Cathedral by William Evans of Ellastone for George Gilbert Scott.
#woodensday
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May 26th at Dudley Archives - workshop. 'How do we make a dialect dictionary?' Learn about how dictionaries create new entries. how the Black Country dialect is represented in dictionaries, and make dictionary entries of your own. Register via
blackcountrydialectdictionary.eventbrite.co.uk
10 days ago
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Black Country Knowledge & Library Services
2 months ago
📚 National Year of Reading 2026 Celebrate
#reading
by visiting our
#BookExchange
at Bushey Fields (Dudley), Penn (Wolverhampton) or Dorothy Pattison (Walsall). Pick up a book — and if you have one you’ve enjoyed, feel free to bring it along and share it. Take a book. Leave a book.
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The Black Country Dying Museum
3 months ago
18th century three decker pulpit at St Mary and St Margaret Castle Bromwich.
#sundaysermons
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The Black Country Dying Museum
3 months ago
All Saints Broseley.
#adoorablethursday
#dailydoor
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So looking forward to helping participants create new dictionary entries for Black Country words at Wolverhampton Literature Festival on 8th February. Tickets available here:
wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk/sunday.html
#blackcountry
#dialect
#lexicography
4 months ago
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Black Country Radio
4 months ago
A petition to ‘Save Our Leather Museum’ will be discussed at a Walsall Council meeting this week
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Leather Museum decision to face second round of scrutiny
A petition to ‘Save Our Leather Museum’ will be discussed at a Walsall Council meeting this week.
https://www.blackcountryradio.co.uk/news/local-headlines/leather-museum-decision-to-face-second-round-of-scrutiny/
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Dr Danny Bate
4 months ago
If you like books about linguistics and languages (perhaps you'd like to write your own?), here's a free talk for you! On the 27/1, I'll be putting questions to four fabulous authors over Zoom, getting their experience of writing linguistically for the public. Link:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics
4 months ago
#OTD
213 years ago, Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew and was briefly also a French politician. Later he became an expert on Cornish and other Celtic languages, and particularly on the dialect cartography of Basque.
#LinguisticBirthdays
#Histlx
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Bostin gifts ! D is for donny...
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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The Black Country Dying Museum
5 months ago
St Ambrose at Lichfield Cathedral. A replacement of the original deteriorated statues, most were replaced by Robert Bridgeman & Sons from Lichfield in the 1870's.
#stoneworksunday
#stambrose
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Excited to see the oral history analytical work I carried out with Prof Aleksandra Galasinska on memory, dialect and mining appear in print. We used thematic analysis to examine the oral histories at The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in the 1980s
bit.ly/3XRaNzU
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Mining in the Ironbridge area of North Shropshire | 6 | Preservation o
In this chapter, thematic analysis is used to examine themes of memory, work and coal mining in the oral history interviews conducted in the 1970s and 1980s by
http://bit.ly/3XRaNzU
6 months ago
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Black Country Radio
6 months ago
The team at Shenstone Court care home in Halesowen are holding a Christmas Toy appeal to support local children in need 🧸 🤖 They're supporting the Cradley Heath branch of the Salvation Army and they need your help! ⬇️
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The Black Country Dying Museum
6 months ago
St Benedict Biscop, Womborne. St Edmund for his feast day by Walter Tower. (Kempe Studio)
#stedmund
#saintsday
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Advance notification of this open workshop tracing possible loss of dialect in the
#blackcountry
to be held at Wolverhampton Art Gallery on February 8th as part of Wolves Lit Fest
6 months ago
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The Black Country Dying Museum
6 months ago
St John the Baptist, Hope Bagot.
#windowsonwednesday
#wallsonwednesday
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