We have had the pleasure of joining a couple of seminars recently at which the value of social capital has been front and centre of research and practice. Dyffryn Dyfodol Two weeks ago we joined the online Dyffryn Dyfodol workshop hosted by Iwan and Kate from Ffiwsar...
It is almost three years since Andy and I wrote the first article in Planet - The Welsh Internationalist's Possibilities for a Post-Pandemic Society series. The series invited contributors to project years ahead and conjure up potential futures that the pandemic could...
A huge 'Tom Hanks' to BBC London reporter Adriana Elgueta for spending time with our Andy Green and Saif Osmani and reporting on the Modern Cockney Festival for the BBC News website: Do you need to be from London to be a cockney?
Our Saif Osmani recently went on Kevin O'Sullivan's TalkTV show to discuss Cockney identity and what the Modern Cockney Festival is all about: https://youtu.be/ucK2Gasj5vg And he then popped up on BBC London Politics with Diane Abbott MP and Jackie Doyle-Price MP...
As part of the inaugural Modern Cockney Festival we explored how the Cockney language is evolving. Cockney speech and dialect is arguably one of the main signifiers of Cockney identity and culture. Yet, there are reports that it will disappear from the streets of...
We're thrilled that our Modern Cockney Festival has been covered in national newspapers, in particular our efforts to get Cockney recognised formally as a community language.
