Peaky Blinders, the BBC crime drama that aired from 2013 to 2022, is not only known for its story and cast, but also for the accent of its characters.

The Birmingham-born Hustle star portrays the titular character Cyrano – a romantic poet with crippling self-consciousness ...

As an American, my understanding of the U.K.’s Black Country culture is limited. By way of the most rudimentary musical education, one can blurt out facts about Liverpool, the town that birthed the ...

TikTok has allowed accents once considered 'unsexy' to find audiences who think they are hot, including the 'exotic' West Midlands dialects. Videos by creators with regional accents have spread across ...

Things the West Midlands has given the world: Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, Steel Pulse and The Specials, Duran Duran, Napalm Death… And let’s not forget the Industrial Revolution. But does the ...

Explore the 13 quintessentially Brummie words and phrases at risk of disappearing as language evolves in Birmingham and the ...

British people tend to think in binaries, suggests Richard Parker, the mayor of the West Midlands. Right and wrong, good and bad, north and south. “There’s a big bit of the country that gets forgotten ...

Brummies have known the deal when it comes to accents for generations. Someone will rank all the accents in the British Isles and dead last will be ours - its standard stuff. Well, maybe feasting time ...