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Modern Cockney: Featured in Saga Magazine
Our campaign to celebrate and protect Cockney culture is featured in the latest edition of Saga Magazine – the UK’s
How to discover your Cockney ancestors
This video from the Cockney Cultures YouTube channel explores the diverse identity of Cockneys and the methodology of genealogy. Hosts Andy Green and Patricia Sears
Community-Led Solutions to Linguistic Inequality in London
New Research Shows How Community-Led Approaches Can Transform Linguistic Inequality In London. The value and impact achieved by Grow Social
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Join us for ‘A Very English Chat’
We were thrilled to be featured in last Saturday’s edition of The Guardian alongside Caroline Lucas, Kojo Koram and Billy
All the Fun of the (Heritage) Fair!
Next month, we’re off to Leicester in the English East Midlands for the latest Saturday Heritage Fair hosted by our friends
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
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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
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
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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
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
Seeing social capital in practice
We have had the pleasure of joining a couple of seminars recently at which the value of social capital has
