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.

The UK’s first designated Cockney Museum has opened in Surrey, after an 82-year-old man realised his dream to celebrate the cockney community and its history. George Major has opened the museum in the ...

We ended last week’s column with the Yiddish expression plotkes, loksh, boydem, politsa, “crappies, noodles, attic, shelf,” or alternately, loksh, boydem, politsa or boydem mit politsa, in the sense ...

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 ...