‘Dumberdash’ is an old Cheshire term for a short but violent storm. A ‘lumpenhole’ is a deep trench for fluid farmyard waste. The man who remembers...
A Cambridge academic devoted to the documentation of endangered languages has returned to a remote Nepali village to hand over a two-volume...
A campaign to republish an out-of-print classic on the subject of African culture, using funds donated by academics, enthusiasts and general readers...
A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.