Next month, we're off to Leicester in the English East Midlands for the latest Saturday Heritage Fair hosted by our friends at the Documentary Media Centre and the Independent Heritage Network. Leicester is one of the UK's most diverse cities and a motivation behind...
Grow Social Capital at More In Common In Action
On 20 May, our Andy Green and Russell Todd were guests at the More In Common In Action conference in Manchester hosted by the Jo Cox Foundation. We were thrilled, with the support of Cardiff Council's community cohesion team, to be present to lead a workshop about our...
Why food is part of our social capital and why MPs are now calling for protected status for traditional Cockney Pie n Mash
A campaign co-created by Grow Social Capital to protect the staple dish of Cockney cuisine, Pie’n’Mash by seeking protected status to protect its heritage and promote itself worldwide is now getting the support of Members of Parliament who are lending their backing to...
The ‘fading Welsh accent and does it even matter?’ – a response
though we’d always challenge the reductive assumption that there is only one type of Welsh accent – Wales has many accents - the ‘fading Welsh accent and does it even matter?’ article by Stephen Price (Nation Cymru, 17 August 2024) does highlight a broader issue about...
Two Cockneys in search of Wales’ best bara brith cake on an ‘Odyssey to Anglesey’ | ‘Siwrnai i Sir Fôn’
Where is the best bara brith in Wales? Two Cockneys, now living in Wales, are aiming to find out where the best traditional cake can be found, also learn a new word and phrase of Welsh every day, on a week-long journey of their adopted homeland using their free bus...
Are the working classes revolting?
Are working-class cultural identities such as Cockney, Scouse, and Weegie facing greater social stigma and prejudice that fuels greater division and polarisation in modern society? Leading social commentator David Goodhart of the Policy Exchange explores the issue at...