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The Archive of the Society is set become the main engine of its purpose. This developing area will incorporate a number of resources for those interested in the literature, both written and spoken, and will consist of text based and audio- visual recordings of this material. Our work will involve people in the County to capture the dialect as it exists and archive this for future generations. We know that older styles of dialect are dying out but there is still a rich source of this in the younger folk as they now speak a dialect for the 21st century. The study of this is continued in the universities and colleges but we want to widen the interest by involving communities in understanding the dialect where they live. To this end, with what exists we hope to have a past archive and a present one . This material will be available through online viewers and audio streams and downloads. There is a large collection of extant literature, particularly from the 19th century, when Lancashire authors and poets achieved a pre-eminence in the world of literature which has not been achieved since. Access to these resources will develop, but we can issue booklists of those texts belonging to members, as a guide to a sample of the literature available. These are listed below. Click by the members name to view the list. Also visit the 'Links to....' page where various sources, commercial and otherwise, can give an indication of the material on offer. |
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Roger Barnes Click Here |
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Brian Calderbank Click Here |
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Mark Dowding/Barbara Hindley Click here |
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To promote our Society we have a number of events which you can read about on our Events Page. It also contains a resume of past events. |
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Barbara Hindley Click Here |
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Portraits of Lancashire Literary Figures |
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Over time we will develop an archive of the literary and recorded tradition of the County. Sometimes it's nice to put a face to the verse. Click to go to our PORTRAITS page and see the photos of many of the notable Lancashire literary figures. In addition to the photos are three charcoal originals of Waugh,Brierley and Laycock presented to the Society by Bob Dobson, for which we thank him. They were executed, according to Bob, by an Indian artist but the signature is not clear. Can anyone help? Here are the pen portraits - go to the Portraits page for enlarged versions. |
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If you would like to join the Society and become a part of the resurgence of the Literary and Spoken Heritage of Lancashire, click HERE to view and submit a membership form. NEXT MEETING: 8th September 7.00 St Chads Parish Centre Wheelton,Chorley. PR6 8AJ |
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Lancashire Dialect from the 1930's - British Drama League |
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The three extracts are as follows: One - what the League calls a 'standard passage' - all dialects read a version for comparison with each other - is a tale of a girl at school and according to the League is a monologue based on Skeat's Phonetic Survey of 1884, which comprises in the shortest possible space all the sounds in the phonetic alphabet. Click to listen Two- 'A Respectable Mon' by Samuel Laycock. Click to listen Three- Extract from A.B.'s Reform Speech (from Ab'o'th Yates' Sketches). Click to listen |
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