Sounds familiar?

The British Library offers this little gem about accents and dialects in the UK. It might help any student who research for accurate information on the subject, with illustrations and even a map with links to actual recordings of accents throughout the country.

In Regional Voices, there are interesting explanations on specific topics such as lexical, phonological, grammatical and social variations. 

For those interested in Case Studies, there is an in-depth material concerning three specific varieties of contemporary English: Received Pronunciation, the Geordie Dialect and English as spoken in the UK's minority ethnic communities.