Here's a comedian doing 17 different British accents, with examples of celebrities and characters from TV and movies who speak them. You can really hear the differences! And there's a roving map!
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140619-one-woman-17-british-accents?ocid=global_travel_rss&ocid=global_bbccom_email_11022015_travel
More on British accents, via the "accent tags" meme. Here's the Yorkshire accent/dialect. Take a look at the comments to see language ideology at work! http://youtu.be/vhkZgNkmk0A
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