Bare, burn, Cark? Earlier this week, Claire was invited to BBC Radio Lancashire and Radio Cumbria, where she talked about rhoticity and accent change in urban centres in Victorian Lancashire.

UK listeners can catch up on Claire’s segment before the end of the month on BBC Sounds (from 2:22:23)!

Black and white image shows workers at machines at the Storey Workshops, Lancaster, in 1900. Image credit: Lancashire Archives and Local History

Read more about the study in the news (Lancaster University, Lancaster Guardian, phys.org, The Mail), or read the paper published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics.