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