The Yorkshire society is the oldest of the county dialect societies; it grew out of the committee of workers formed to collect material for the "English Dialect Dictionary". The committee was formed in October 1894 at Joseph Wright's suggestion and the Yorkshire Dialect Society was founded in 1897. It publishes an annual volume of "The Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society"; the contents of this include studies of English dialects outside Yorkshire, e.g. the dialects of Northumberland, and Shakespeare's use of dialect. It also publishes an annual Summer Bulletin of dialect poetry.