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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYyL0y5QY4
Juxtaposition between stereotyped teenage slang and language you'd expect from the time period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW59mTP1uJI
Carner used glottal stops and had an accent that was obviously London British

https://sounds.bl.uk/accents-and-dialects
Audio bank with multiple different sounds. There is early spoken recordings, children's games and songs and dialects

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england
Another audio bank, however these are regional to the Uk

https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/Evolving-English-VoiceBank/021M-C1442X05256X-0101V0
Mr Tickle read in a Hampshire accent

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