Gallery

A selection of images from the Accent Van tour of 2021, the pilot study in 2016, the exhibition in 2017 at Manchester Central Library, and an event for the Manchester International Festival in 2019.

Sep 2019 – Feb 2021

Online mapping

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021

Submit your voice

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022

Talking About Voices podcast resource for schools

Summer 2021

The Accent Van goes on tour

November 2021

Accent Attitudes Quiz

Late 2021-2022

Poetry workshops.

Summer 2022

Manchester Central Library installation.

Web app launched

Manchester Voices Follow

AHRC research into accents, dialects, and identities of people in Greater Manchester. Run by @RobDrummond @Holly_Rebekah and Sarah Tasker at @ManMetUni

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Niall Power @niallpower5 ·

22 Sep

Do you live in Fallowfield? (Or near by?).
You’re very welcome to this talk by @RobDrummond on the accents, dialects and identities of Greater #Manchester.
Register your place by emailing: events@manlitphil.ac.uk
And just £1 on the door. @ThePlaceM14 @manlitphil #Fallowfield

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Manchester Voices @voicesmcr ·

22 Sep

Rob Drummond will be giving a talk about the #ManchesterVoices project at Ashton Library in Tameside on 4th October, as part of #LibrariesWeek Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-voices-libraries-week-tickets-423932472437 @ManMetUni @librariesweek

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Manchester Voices @voicesmcr ·

22 Sep

"When I did my teacher training course, it was suggested I did an option called 'Voice projection in the classroom', which somewhere had the subtitle 'For people with regional accents.'"
One of the videos from the #ManchesterVoices installation at @MancLibraries

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Manchester Voices @voicesmcr ·

21 Sep

Checking a delivery of display banners explaining the project findings. These will appear in various places across Greater Manchester over the coming months! @ManMetUni @ahrcpress

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Manchester Voices @voicesmcr ·

20 Sep

Amazing #ManchesterVoices poster by @PosterboyEric, specially commissioned for the project! #dialect #bobbins #weather

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