A few more days before the deadline! Please consider sharing & applying!

Are you a M4C student interested in memory? Then look into this: uniofnottm.sharepoint.com/sites/M4CVPP/S…

Spring 2024 meeting of the East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum at the Bilsthorpe Heritage Museum #Nottinghamshire on Saturday, 27th April 2024 (10.30am-1.30pm). More details @ miningheritage.co.uk/east-midlands-… #miningheritage

Eastwood coalmining photographic exhibition by former local coalminer, Anthony Kirby, on at Eastwood library Inspire Libraries until 18th April 2024. Free entry. Image gallery at miningheritage.co.uk/eastwood-coalm… #miningheritage

Linguistics professor Natalie Braber helps us get to the bottom of what makes the Nottingham accent so unique, and why ‘cob’ and ‘mardy’ are not going out of fashion anytime soon > leftlion.co.uk/features/2024/…

'Songs and Rhymes from the Mines' at Teversal Trails Visitors Centre, at Teversal near Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. An evening of coalmining songs & pit poetry. Tickets £12 per person includes a pie & pea supper. More details & bookings @ miningheritage.co.uk/songs-and-rhym…

And a special thanks to all those who came to chat at my poster yesterday afternoon. Always a pleasure to talk about our work from IVIP with Natalie Braber & David Wright!

Looking forward to presenting our work on coal mining communities with John Bellamy at University of Nottingham seminar series today!

Roll up, roll up! Our annual BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG event on Language, Gender and Sexuality in Sport dmuleicester on Friday 5th April organised by the wonderful Dr Aimee Bailey and Lucy Jones (@lucyjones.bsky.social) looks set to be AMAZEBALLS, so please join us if you can! Registration closes THIS FRIDAY 29th! ⬇️⬇️

Last week, our Core Group met in Prishtina, Kosovo, to continue work on a virtual exhibition and discuss art-based approaches to slow memory. Participants also visited the city of Mitrovica and met with NGO and museum staff invested in the work of slow memory. 📸 Kateřina Králová

Voor het Nationaal Holocaust Museum maakt Reinjan Prakke een serie podcasts – Vergeet me niet. In deel 3 praat ik met hem over George Maduro en Joods verzet: open.spotify.com/episode/5kL2dF…

(1/2) Spring is in the air 
 
Have you caught sight of anything hinting at warmer days ahead, like blooming 'lents' (daffodils) or 'throstles' (thrushes) singing?  
 
What are your dialect words for springtime?  
Tell us by completing our Great Big Dialect Survey.

Join us tomorrow!

UK to sign Unesco pledge to protect ‘intangible cultural heritage’ – Professor Natalie Braber explains its importance for The Conversation #heritage #linguistics NTU School of Arts and Humanities theconversation.com/uk-to-sign-une…

We're saddened to hear that Nottingham City Council is closing 12 of its 15 libraries as part of sweeping cuts proposed across the city.

'In a world of paid-subscriptions and endless costs, a library card is a free ticket to anywhere.'

Full post here ⬇️
bit.ly/WEMLIBRARIES

AIMS@NTU and our #memorystudies research group are happy to welcome Prof Dani Kranz (Colegio de Mexico) next week Nottingham Trent University. Please register & join us ⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-commu…

Do get in touch if you’d like to attend a series of presentations and a panel discussion on the role of concepts in linguistics (places limited)

Good turn out & many coal stories recalled by ex Silverhill miners & relatives for the first NTU School of Arts and Humanities 'Mine-craft the Prequel' heritage project photo workshop event @ Teversal Visitors Centre. Next two free events over weekend 9th/10th March 2024. miningheritage.co.uk/mine-craft-the…

Happy #MotherLanguageDay to all speakers of #Birmingham and #BlackCountry English - don't listen to what they say because it's nothing more than linguistic prejudice (and at Uni of Birmingham, we have the data to prove it!)
How Brummies and Yam Yams speak is beautiful.

Kirsty McDougall and myself will be hosting a free CPD event for criminal practitioners on Voice Identification and the Law at Leicester castle dmuleicester on 21 March at 18:00.
Booking is on the link below;
eventbrite.co.uk/e/voice-identi…