Conferences & Events
YORKSHIRE NAMES AND DIALECTS.
Venue: York St John College, York.
Date: Saturday 1st October 2005
This conference included presentations about place-names, family names and Yorkshire dialects.
Speakers were:
- Gillian Fellows-Jensen: The Vikings in Yorkshire: the place-name evidence
- Margaret Gelling: The landscape of place-names
- Arnold Kellett: The origin and variety of Yorkshire dialect and Yorkshire dialect humour
- George Redmonds: Family names and the landscape
- Paul Cavill: The last word? After the Yorkshire place-name survey
- Mel Jones: A sense of place and a way of speech: West Riding dialect words and expressions in the children's stories of Juliana Horatio Ewing (1841-1885)
- Jonathan Robinson: Sounds familiar! A web-based archive of Yorkshire voices past and present
There was also a performance of the dialect play, The Second Shepherd's Play from the Townley Cycle (Wakefield), given by the Lords of Misrule.