The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang. Aligning with the Modern Cockney Festival, which takes place throughout ...

East London is synonymous with the accent, slang and traditions of Cockneys but a trip to Surrey's very own museum showed me there appears to be a new home for the capital's most iconic traditions.

A museum dedicated to London's Pearly Kings and Queens has been attracting visitors to a corner of Surrey for the last five years. The Cockney Museum in Stoneleigh opened its doors in 2020 and has had ...

Amanda Cole received funding from the University of Essex Doctoral Scholarship as well as ESSEXLab seedcorn funding. Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a ...

The coded language created by the trading community native to London’s West End has dominated that city’s slang. See how it took shape, and what’s replacing it. How did we get the phrase “use your ...