The History of English Podcast

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💌 Episode 1: Introduction
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 2: The Indo-European Discovery
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 3: The Indo-European Family Tree
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 6: Indo-European Words
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 7: More Indo-European Words
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 9: Who Were the Indo-Europeans?
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations
published 15 years ago
💌 Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors
published 15 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 1
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 13: Greece, Phoenicia and the Alphabet
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 16: The Rise of Rome – and Latin
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 17: Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 20: The Early Germanic Tribes
published 14 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 21: Early Germanic Words
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 23: Tacitus and Germanic Society
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 24: Germanic Mythology
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 25: Germanic Markings and the Runes
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 26: Imperial Crisis and the Goths
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 27: Broken Empire and Fractured Languages
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 29: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion
published 14 years ago
💌 Episode 30: The Celtic Legacy
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 31: Saxons, Franks and Other West Germans
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 32: The Oldest English
published 13 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 4: Let Me ‘Buoy’ Your Spirits
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 33: Missionaries and Manuscripts
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 34: Sounds Like Old English
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 35: English Sounds and Roman Letters
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 36: Finalizing the Alphabet
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 37: Seafarers, Poets and Traveling Minstrels
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 38: Nobles, Nuptials and a Cowherd Poet
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 39: Not Lost in Translation
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 40: Learning Latin and Latin Learning
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 41: New Words From Old English
published 13 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 5: Odds and Ends
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 42: Beowulf and Other Viking Ancestors
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 43: Anglo-Saxon Monsters and Mythology
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 44: The Romance of Old French
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 45: To Coin a Phrase – and Money
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 46: Cynewulf and the Kindred Kings
published 13 years ago
💌 Episode 47: The Man Who Saved English
published 12 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 6: Beowulf Deconstructed
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 48: The Unity of Alfred’s English
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 49: Vikings Among the English and French
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 53: The End of Endings
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 57: The Wessex Literary Revival
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 58: Bibliophiles and Bookworms
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 60: Danes, Death and Taxes
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 61: Earls and Churls
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 62: Flesh and Blood
published 12 years ago
💌 Episode 63: Restorations and Remedies
published 12 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode 7: Stuffed Animals
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 64: Feudalism and Early Normans
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 65: Norman Dukes and Dialects
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 66: Broken Promises and the Eve of Conquest
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 67: The Year That Changed English
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 68: Rebels With a Cause
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 69: From Conquest to Domesday
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 70: Mind Your Manors For Pete’s Sake
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 71: On The Hunt
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 72: The Dark Ages of English
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 73: Possession, Power and Checkmate
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 74: Head Cities and Home Towns
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 76: The Gender Problem
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 77: Rival Relatives and the Land of Scots
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 78: Under Siege
published 11 years ago
💌 Episode 79: Anarchy
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 80: Knight Life
published 10 years ago
💌 Announcement: 10 American Presidents Podcast
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 81: Love Songs and Troubadours
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 82: A Marriage for the Ages
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 83: A Trilingual Nation
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 84: Law, Order and Murder
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 85: How to Run an Empire
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 86: Family of Rebels
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 87: The First Spelling Reformers
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 88: The Long and Short of It
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 89: ‘I Before E’ and All That
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 90: Healers, Hospitals and Holy Wars
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 91: Traders and Traitors
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 92: The Lion Kings
published 10 years ago
💌 Episode 93: The Two Arthurs
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 94: From British Legend to English King
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 95: Old School and New School
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 96: From Alpha to Omega
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 97: Let’s Put It In Writing
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 98: The Great Debates
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 99: The Second French Invasion
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 100: Decoding English
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 101: The Birth of English Song
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 102: A Medieval Glossary
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 103: Solitary Confinement
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 104: Prefix Preferences
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 105: Suffix Summary
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 106: An Illuminating Development
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 107: Parlez-Vous Anglais?
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 108: On the Move
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 109: The Romantic Warriors
published 9 years ago
💌 Episode 110: Dyed In the Wool
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 111: Laying Down the Law
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 112: Northern Messenger
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 113: A Zouthern Accent
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 114: The Craft of Numbering
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 115: The Measure of a Person
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 116: The Celtic Fringe
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 117: What’s In a Name?
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 118: Trade Names
published 8 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode: Regarding English (Sound Education Conference Talk)
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 119: The Road to War
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 120: The End of the World
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 121: English Ascent
published 8 years ago
💌 Episode 122: The Name of the Game
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 123: A Material Change
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 124: Piers Plowman and the Peasant Revolt
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 125: The First English Bible
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 126: A New Turn of Phrase
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 127: The Road to Canterbury
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 128: The Canterbury Tellers
published 7 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 129: Chaucer’s Vulgar Tongue [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 130: Dialect Dialogues
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 131: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 132: Food for Thought
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 133: Breaking Bread With Companions
published 7 years ago
💌 Episode 134: A Lancastrian Standard
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 135: A House of Cards
published 6 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode: Stay at Home Edition
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 137: A Rose By Any Other Name
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 138: Family Matters
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 139: The Business of Printing
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 140: You Say ‘To-may-to’
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1)
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 142: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 2)
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 143: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 3)
published 6 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode: Chaucer’s Purse and the Great Vowel Shift
published 6 years ago
💌 Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 145: A Sea Change for Europe
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 146: A Brand New World
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 147: A Rude and Rusty Language
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 148: A Marital Union
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 150: A Capital Offense
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 151: Sick to Death
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 152: As the Saying Goes
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 153: Zombie Letters
published 5 years ago
💌 Episode 154: English Equality
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 155: Back to Basics
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 156: Beggars, Cheats and Thieves
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 158: Planting Seeds
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 160: Approximant-ly English
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 161: Y U and I Have a Problem
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 162: The Pirate Queen
published 4 years ago
💌 Episode 163: An Elementary Education
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 164: Somewhere in the Middle
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 166: The Arte of Warre
published 3 years ago
💌 Bonus Episode: Rise and Fall of the Classic Movie Accent
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 167: The Rhythm of English
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 168: Witches, Demons and Fairies
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 169: Shakespeare Documented
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets
published 3 years ago
💌 Episode 171: Shakespeare’s English (featuring Ben Crystal)
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 172: Succession
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 173: Fooling Around
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 174: Speak and Spell
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 177: Dressed for Success
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 178: Much Ado About Hamlet
published 2 years ago
💌 Episode 179: Defining Moments
published 23 months ago
💌 Episode 180: English on the Move
published 21 months ago
💌 Episode 181: Heaven and Earth
published 18 months ago
💌 Episode 182: World of Confusion
published 16 months ago
💌 Episode 183: The Fabric of Our Lives
published 14 months ago
💌 Episode 184: Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)
published 12 months ago
💌 Episode 185: Spelling Says a Lot (Part 2)
published 10 months ago
💌 Episode 186: A Dutch Treat
published 8 months ago
💌 Episode 187: Islands and Sea
published 6 months ago
💌 Episode 188: Old England and New England
published 4 months ago
💌 Episode 189: Stressed Out
published 2 months ago
💌 Episode 190: Union, Division and Unusual U
published 15 hours ago