The dialect of the Black Country might sound like bad English at first gearing. Listen more carefully and you may hear echoes of 1,500 years of history.

This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of

The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generation

From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells