This week’s selection comes from Jonnie Robinson, Lead Curator of Spoken English. Rhyming slang is a wonderful vehicle for individual and collective linguistic creativity. The expression here a bit Derby [= ‘cold’] was submitted to the Evolving English… read more
This week’s selection comes from Greg Green, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking Our Sound Heritage. Learning to identify bird song can be tricky at the best of times; to the untrained ear it can all sound remarkably similar. To add to the confusion… read more
This week’s selection comes from Camille Johnston, Oral History Assistant Archivist. Sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) describes how it felt to be an artist in the 1950s. Post-war Britain was changing but there was nonetheless a pervading sense of … read more
A fifteen year old girl speaks with considerable charm about her beliefs, including the belief in ‘a spirit of Christmas. read more
UOSH Volunteer and poet, Amy Evans Bauer, writes: As we approach solstice, pantomime horses, the holly and the ivy, and festive schedules in which we often have to be in two places at once, here is the other half of WordBank’s own two-parter… Part 1 of… read more