Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders. BBC Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east ...

Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen's English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England. In new research, ...

Barbara Windsor, the actress who has died aged 83, became a national institution by passing off high bosoms and low comedy in the Carry On films, and after many vicissitudes ended her career playing ...

Barbara Windsor stars as Millie, a cockney sparrow who led the women working in a milliner's shop in 1902. The storylines focused around the conflict between the female workers and the management and ...