The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society’ s continuity and change, our local history and our day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. In separate sections of the site you can explore the differences that exist in spoken English as you move across the country; hear how English has changed in different parts of the country over the last fifty years; take an in-depth look at three specific varieties of contemporary English: - Received Pronunciation, Geordie Dialect, and English as spoken in the UK’s minority ethnic communities; contribute your own recordings and language investigations to the site.