Midlands (redirected fromEnglish Midlands) Encyclopedia Mid·lands (mĭd′ləndz) A region of central England. It roughly corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and is today a highly industrialized area. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright...
The industrial heritage of both areas has meant that tight knit and socially homogeneous individual areas in each region have demonstrated in many respects little linguistic change over time, and have continued to exhibit linguistic features, especially morphological constructions, peculiar to these areas...
Updated regional reports are now only available online from Historic England. Related to the following documents: Heritage counts 2010 - England; and a series of regional reports covering East Midlands, East of England, London, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and...
Emanating from England's rich heritage of outstanding boxers, Dan Azeez stands tall as an exceptional talent with limitless potential. This light-heavyweight contender possesses a diverse set of tools in his repertoire, including devastating punching power and supreme tactical awareness – making him on...
There are many excellent publications which document the industrial heritage and mining history of the Midlands, but few of these include any significant mention of the wealth of fine mineral specimens which have resulted from centuries of extraction. We are fortunate indeed that thanks to the effort...
Isle Heritage CIC, Sandgate, UK Andrew Richardson Oxford Archaeology East, Cambridge, UK Elizabeth Popescu, Natasha Dodwell, Stuart Ladd, Tom Phillips & Richard Mortimer University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Faye Sayer Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee, Dun...
English Cuisine - English Cuisine of South Africa: South Africa has aptly been dubbed The Rainbow Nation for its diversity of colours, cultures and ...
Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work Chapters in this book (20) Frontmatter Contents 1 Introduction. Issues in language planning and policy: From global to local 2 Is English global? 3 The language planning and policy for the European...
American Heritage online defines it as “very different or unrelated; sharply divergent.” The dictionary has this example: “Radical Islamists are ultimately seeking to create something orthogonal to our model of democracy” (from an article by the American national security expert Richard A. Clarke...
the great British church music tradition, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, owes its existence to King Henry VI who, in founding the College in 1441, envisaged the daily singing of services in his magnificent chapel, one of the jewels of Britain’s cultural and architectural heritage....