Looking forward to next week with the #UnlockingTheVaults exhibition at The Exchange, Centenary Square, Birmingham Leading the volunteer research group was a joy to help tell the story of Birmingham's unique Municipal Bank 📆Open 15 Jul to 7 Nov Free & open to all www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/exhib...

For your diary: Stokesday: Problems of Celtic Lexicography (I) 6 June 2026: 9.30- 17.40 Visualisation Building Penglais Campus Aberystwyth, SY23 3BF

Bestselling authors from a wide range of genres will be talking to audiences about their work during this year’s Dudley Writers’ Festival

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!

19th century bird and vine carving at Lichfield Cathedral by William Evans of Ellastone for George Gilbert Scott. #woodensday

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

📚 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.

18th century three decker pulpit at St Mary and St Margaret Castle Bromwich. #sundaysermons

All Saints Broseley. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor

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

A petition to ‘Save Our Leather Museum’ will be discussed at a Walsall Council meeting this week

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...

#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

Bostin gifts ! D is for donny...

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

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

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! ⬇️

St Benedict Biscop, Womborne. St Edmund for his feast day by Walter Tower. (Kempe Studio) #stedmund #saintsday

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

St John the Baptist, Hope Bagot. #windowsonwednesday #wallsonwednesday