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The History of English Podcast

Kevin Stroud

The Spoken History of a Global Language

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Episode 192: English in the Celtic World 2026-10-30 · 76m
Episode 191: A Vision of the Future 2026-08-30 · 78m
Episode 190: Union, Division and Unusual U 2026-06-30 · 80m
Episode 189: Stressed Out 2026-04-30 · 83m
Episode 188: Old England and New England 2026-02-27 · 84m
Episode 187: Islands and Sea 2025-12-31 · 73m
Episode 187: Islands and Sea 2025-12-31
Episode 186: A Dutch Treat 2025-10-31 · 86m
Episode 185: Spelling Says a Lot (Part 2) 2025-09-01 · 78m
Episode 184: Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1) 2025-07-15 · 81m
Episode 183: The Fabric of Our Lives 2025-05-13 · 77m
Episode 182: World of Confusion 2025-03-18 · 76m
Episode 181: Heaven and Earth 2025-01-30 · 81m
Episode 180: English on the Move 2024-11-13 · 74m
Episode 179: Defining Moments 2024-09-24 · 86m
Episode 178: Much Ado About Hamlet 2024-08-07 · 77m
Episode 177: Dressed for Success 2024-06-26 · 85m
Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse 2024-05-09 · 80m
Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet 2024-03-25 · 93m
Episode 174: Speak and Spell 2024-02-08 · 89m
Episode 173: Fooling Around 2024-01-02 · 85m
Episode 172: Succession 2023-11-20 · 95m
Episode 171: Shakespeare’s English (featuring Ben Crystal) 2023-10-09 · 67m
Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets 2023-09-05 · 77m
Episode 169: Shakespeare Documented 2023-07-25 · 61m
Episode 168: Witches, Demons and Fairies 2023-05-31 · 116m
Episode 167: The Rhythm of English 2023-04-24 · 68m
Bonus Episode: Rise and Fall of the Classic Movie Accent 2023-03-31 · 41m
Episode 166: The Arte of Warre 2023-03-07 · 76m
Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar 2023-01-30 · 62m
Episode 164: Somewhere in the Middle 2022-12-20 · 79m
Episode 163: An Elementary Education 2022-11-09 · 70m
Episode 162: The Pirate Queen 2022-10-06 · 68m
Episode 161: Y U and I Have a Problem 2022-08-31 · 75m
Episode 160: Approximant-ly English 2022-07-15 · 80m
Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices 2022-05-18 · 79m
Episode 158: Planting Seeds 2022-04-06 · 66m
Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands 2022-03-04 · 70m
Episode 156: Beggars, Cheats and Thieves 2022-02-04 · 68m
Episode 155: Back to Basics 2022-01-04 · 65m
Episode 154: English Equality 2021-11-30 · 61m
Episode 153: Zombie Letters 2021-10-30 · 71m
Episode 152: As the Saying Goes 2021-09-29 · 63m
Episode 151: Sick to Death 2021-08-30 · 74m
Episode 150: A Capital Offense 2021-07-29 · 75m
Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 2021-06-28 · 67m
Episode 148: A Marital Union 2021-05-26 · 70m
Episode 147: A Rude and Rusty Language 2021-04-28 · 58m
Episode 146: A Brand New World 2021-03-24 · 80m
Episode 145: A Sea Change for Europe 2021-02-18 · 68m
Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes 2021-01-20 · 55m
Bonus Episode: Chaucer’s Purse and the Great Vowel Shift 2020-12-17 · 27m
Episode 143: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 3) 2020-11-24 · 57m
Episode 142: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 2) 2020-10-22 · 49m
Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1) 2020-09-24 · 56m
Episode 140: You Say ‘To-may-to’ 2020-08-28 · 66m
Episode 139: The Business of Printing 2020-07-21 · 71m
Episode 138: Family Matters 2020-06-25 · 67m
Episode 137: A Rose By Any Other Name 2020-05-23 · 66m
Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood 2020-04-24 · 64m
Bonus Episode: Stay at Home Edition 2020-04-06 · 28m
Episode 135: A House of Cards 2020-03-24 · 77m
Episode 134: A Lancastrian Standard 2020-02-20 · 69m
Episode 133: Breaking Bread With Companions 2020-01-21 · 70m
Episode 132: Food for Thought 2019-12-19 · 70m
Episode 131: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2019-11-25 · 76m
Episode 130: Dialect Dialogues 2019-10-22 · 56m
Episode 129: Chaucer’s Vulgar Tongue [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE] 2019-09-25 · 75m
Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf 2019-09-10 · 23m
Episode 128: The Canterbury Tellers 2019-08-23 · 59m
Episode 127: The Road to Canterbury 2019-07-24 · 63m
Episode 126: A New Turn of Phrase 2019-06-26 · 69m
Episode 125: The First English Bible 2019-05-28 · 70m
Episode 124: Piers Plowman and the Peasant Revolt 2019-04-24 · 70m
Episode 123: A Material Change 2019-03-27 · 66m
Episode 122: The Name of the Game 2019-02-28 · 64m
Episode 121: English Ascent 2019-01-30 · 61m
Episode 120: The End of the World 2018-12-31 · 59m
Episode 119: The Road to War 2018-12-13 · 74m
Bonus Episode: Regarding English (Sound Education Conference Talk) 2018-11-29 · 29m
Episode 118: Trade Names 2018-11-19 · 68m
Episode 117: What’s In a Name? 2018-10-16 · 64m
Episode 116: The Celtic Fringe 2018-09-17 · 61m
Episode 115: The Measure of a Person 2018-08-21 · 64m
Episode 114: The Craft of Numbering 2018-07-26 · 67m
Episode 113: A Zouthern Accent 2018-06-27 · 63m
Episode 112: Northern Messenger 2018-06-08 · 60m
Episode 111: Laying Down the Law 2018-05-10 · 62m
Episode 110: Dyed In the Wool 2018-04-07 · 63m
Episode 109: The Romantic Warriors 2018-03-08 · 56m
Episode 108: On the Move 2018-02-09 · 56m
Episode 107: Parlez-Vous Anglais? 2018-01-15 · 49m
Episode 106: An Illuminating Development 2017-12-31 · 57m
Episode 105: Suffix Summary 2017-12-25 · 48m
Episode 104: Prefix Preferences 2017-12-19 · 58m
Episode 103: Solitary Confinement 2017-12-02 · 57m
Episode 102: A Medieval Glossary 2017-11-06 · 59m
Episode 101: The Birth of English Song 2017-10-12 · 63m
Episode 100: Decoding English 2017-09-25 · 52m
Episode 99: The Second French Invasion 2017-09-09 · 70m
Episode 98: The Great Debates 2017-08-17 · 60m
Episode 97: Let’s Put It In Writing 2017-07-27 · 62m
Episode 96: From Alpha to Omega 2017-07-07 · 58m
Episode 95: Old School and New School 2017-06-15 · 68m
Episode 94: From British Legend to English King 2017-05-24 · 65m
Episode 93: The Two Arthurs 2017-04-22 · 62m
Episode 92: The Lion Kings 2017-03-29 · 51m
Episode 91: Traders and Traitors 2017-03-08 · 77m
Episode 90: Healers, Hospitals and Holy Wars 2017-02-15 · 60m
Episode 89: ‘I Before E’ and All That 2017-01-23 · 52m
Episode 88: The Long and Short of It 2017-01-04 · 53m
Episode 87: The First Spelling Reformers 2016-12-07 · 56m
Episode 86: Family of Rebels 2016-11-15 · 50m
Episode 85: How to Run an Empire 2016-10-24 · 59m
Episode 84: Law, Order and Murder 2016-09-29 · 61m
Episode 83: A Trilingual Nation 2016-09-05 · 53m
Episode 82: A Marriage for the Ages 2016-08-03 · 53m
Episode 81: Love Songs and Troubadours 2016-07-15 · 58m
Announcement: 10 American Presidents Podcast 2016-07-01 · 2m
Episode 80: Knight Life 2016-06-23 · 65m
Episode 79: Anarchy 2016-05-18 · 50m
Episode 78: Under Siege 2016-04-29 · 54m
Episode 77: Rival Relatives and the Land of Scots 2016-04-11 · 51m
Episode 76: The Gender Problem 2016-03-25 · 48m
Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs 2016-03-02 · 50m
Episode 74: Head Cities and Home Towns 2016-02-15 · 57m
Episode 73: Possession, Power and Checkmate 2016-01-30 · 62m
Episode 72: The Dark Ages of English 2016-01-11 · 50m
Episode 71: On The Hunt 2015-12-05 · 64m
Episode 70: Mind Your Manors For Pete’s Sake 2015-11-15 · 45m
Episode 69: From Conquest to Domesday 2015-10-30 · 46m
Episode 68: Rebels With a Cause 2015-10-16 · 49m
Episode 67: The Year That Changed English 2015-09-18 · 66m
Episode 66: Broken Promises and the Eve of Conquest 2015-08-20 · 56m
Episode 65: Norman Dukes and Dialects 2015-07-31 · 56m
Episode 64: Feudalism and Early Normans 2015-07-10 · 63m
Bonus Episode 7: Stuffed Animals 2015-06-25 · 14m
Episode 63: Restorations and Remedies 2015-06-02 · 67m
Episode 62: Flesh and Blood 2015-05-11 · 66m
Episode 61: Earls and Churls 2015-04-22 · 62m
Episode 60: Danes, Death and Taxes 2015-03-30 · 63m
Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal 2015-03-11 · 66m
Episode 58: Bibliophiles and Bookworms 2015-02-18 · 57m
Episode 57: The Wessex Literary Revival 2015-01-28 · 50m
Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong 2015-01-15 · 45m
Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be 2014-12-30 · 55m
Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons 2014-12-13 · 56m
Episode 53: The End of Endings 2014-11-24 · 56m
Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal 2014-11-07 · 56m
Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English 2014-10-24 · 57m
Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers 2014-10-09 · 66m
Episode 49: Vikings Among the English and French 2014-09-17 · 61m
Episode 48: The Unity of Alfred’s English 2014-09-03 · 54m
Bonus Episode 6: Beowulf Deconstructed 2014-08-28 · 25m
Episode 47: The Man Who Saved English 2014-08-04 · 64m
Episode 46: Cynewulf and the Kindred Kings 2014-07-15 · 62m
Episode 45: To Coin a Phrase – and Money 2014-06-26 · 65m
Episode 44: The Romance of Old French 2014-06-06 · 63m
Episode 43: Anglo-Saxon Monsters and Mythology 2014-05-21 · 58m
Episode 42: Beowulf and Other Viking Ancestors 2014-05-07 · 50m
Bonus Episode 5: Odds and Ends 2014-04-25 · 18m
Episode 41: New Words From Old English 2014-04-08 · 57m
Episode 40: Learning Latin and Latin Learning 2014-03-21 · 55m
Episode 39: Not Lost in Translation 2014-03-05 · 50m
Episode 38: Nobles, Nuptials and a Cowherd Poet 2014-02-17 · 65m
Episode 37: Seafarers, Poets and Traveling Minstrels 2014-01-21 · 66m
Episode 36: Finalizing the Alphabet 2013-12-23 · 43m
Episode 35: English Sounds and Roman Letters 2013-12-12 · 56m
Episode 34: Sounds Like Old English 2013-11-27 · 44m
Episode 33: Missionaries and Manuscripts 2013-11-07 · 49m
Bonus Episode 4: Let Me ‘Buoy’ Your Spirits 2013-10-29 · 18m
Episode 32: The Oldest English 2013-10-18 · 38m
Episode 31: Saxons, Franks and Other West Germans 2013-09-25 · 65m
Episode 30: The Celtic Legacy 2013-09-06 · 67m
Episode 29: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion 2013-08-12 · 55m
Episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians 2013-07-18 · 44m
Episode 27: Broken Empire and Fractured Languages 2013-06-24 · 50m
Episode 26: Imperial Crisis and the Goths 2013-06-08 · 62m
Episode 25: Germanic Markings and the Runes 2013-05-28 · 37m
Episode 24: Germanic Mythology 2013-05-05 · 49m
Episode 23: Tacitus and Germanic Society 2013-04-02 · 48m
Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar 2013-03-21 · 35m
Episode 21: Early Germanic Words 2013-03-05 · 42m
Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet 2013-02-24 · 27m
Episode 20: The Early Germanic Tribes 2013-02-05 · 46m
Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain 2013-01-23 · 52m
Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans 2013-01-02 · 53m
Episode 17: Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul 2012-12-15 · 46m
Episode 16: The Rise of Rome – and Latin 2012-11-30 · 39m
Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet 2012-11-13 · 38m
Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde 2012-11-01 · 46m
Episode 13: Greece, Phoenicia and the Alphabet 2012-10-17 · 39m
Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version) 2012-10-05 · 73m
Bonus Episode 1 2012-09-19 · 13m
Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors 2012-09-09 · 30m
Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations 2012-09-05 · 43m
Episode 9: Who Were the Indo-Europeans? 2012-08-24 · 41m
Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?) 2012-08-16 · 33m
Episode 7: More Indo-European Words 2012-08-09 · 31m
Episode 6: Indo-European Words 2012-07-26 · 38m
Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C 2012-07-18 · 43m
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language) 2012-07-11 · 50m
Episode 3: The Indo-European Family Tree 2012-07-02 · 35m
Episode 2: The Indo-European Discovery 2012-06-25 · 33m
Episode 1: Introduction 2012-06-18 · 24m
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