The History of English Podcast

Episode 139: The Business of Printing

July 21, 2020

1:11:18

Episode 138: Family Matters

June 25, 2020

1:07:04

Episode 137: A Rose By Any Other Name

May 23, 2020

1:06:27

Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood

April 24, 2020

1:03:55

Bonus Episode: Stay at Home Edition

April 6, 2020

28:12

Episode 135: A House of Cards

March 24, 2020

1:16:37

Episode 134: A Lancastrian Standard

Feb. 20, 2020

1:09:02

Episode 133: Breaking Bread With Companions

Jan. 21, 2020

1:09:59

Episode 132: Food for Thought

Dec. 19, 2019

1:10:25

Episode 131: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Nov. 25, 2019

1:16:08

Episode 130: Dialect Dialogues

Oct. 22, 2019

55:51

Episode 129: Chaucer’s Vulgar Tongue [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

Sept. 25, 2019

1:15:08

Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf

Sept. 10, 2019

22:59

Episode 128: The Canterbury Tellers

Aug. 23, 2019

59:15

Episode 127: The Road to Canterbury

July 24, 2019

1:02:42

Episode 126: A New Turn of Phrase

June 26, 2019

1:09:10

Episode 125: The First English Bible

May 28, 2019

1:09:38

Episode 124: Piers Plowman and the Peasant Revolt

April 24, 2019

1:09:57

Episode 123: A Material Change

March 27, 2019

1:06:16

Episode 122: The Name of the Game

Feb. 28, 2019

1:04:18

Episode 121: English Ascent

Jan. 30, 2019

1:00:52

Episode 120: The End of the World

Dec. 31, 2018

59:20

Episode 119: The Road to War

Dec. 13, 2018

1:13:58

Bonus Episode: Regarding English (Sound Education Conference Talk)

Nov. 29, 2018

29:29

Episode 118: Trade Names

Nov. 19, 2018

1:07:45

Episode 117: What’s In a Name?

Oct. 16, 2018

1:04:27

Episode 116: The Celtic Fringe

Sept. 17, 2018

1:00:47

Episode 115: The Measure of a Person

Aug. 21, 2018

1:03:36

Episode 114: The Craft of Numbering

July 26, 2018

1:07:19

Episode 113: A Zouthern Accent

June 27, 2018

1:02:41

Episode 112: Northern Messenger

June 8, 2018

59:37

Episode 111: Laying Down the Law

May 10, 2018

1:02:26

Episode 110: Dyed In the Wool

April 7, 2018

1:02:56

Episode 109: The Romantic Warriors

March 8, 2018

56:25

Episode 108: On the Move

Feb. 9, 2018

55:54

Episode 107: Parlez-Vous Anglais?

Jan. 15, 2018

49:11

Episode 106: An Illuminating Development

Dec. 31, 2017

57:23

Episode 105: Suffix Summary

Dec. 25, 2017

48:29

Episode 104: Prefix Preferences

Dec. 19, 2017

57:33

Episode 103: Solitary Confinement

Dec. 2, 2017

57:29

Episode 102: A Medieval Glossary

Nov. 6, 2017

59:25

Episode 101: The Birth of English Song

Oct. 12, 2017

1:02:37

Episode 100: Decoding English

Sept. 25, 2017

52:04

Episode 99: The Second French Invasion

Sept. 9, 2017

1:10:04

Episode 98: The Great Debates

Aug. 17, 2017

59:34

Episode 97: Let’s Put It In Writing

July 27, 2017

1:02:15

Episode 96: From Alpha to Omega

July 7, 2017

57:51

Episode 95: Old School and New School

June 15, 2017

1:07:57

Episode 94: From British Legend to English King

May 24, 2017

65:18

Episode 93: The Two Arthurs

April 22, 2017

61:55

Episode 92: The Lion Kings

March 29, 2017

51:03

Episode 91: Traders and Traitors

March 8, 2017

1:17:24

Episode 90: Healers, Hospitals and Holy Wars

Feb. 15, 2017

59:45

Episode 89: ‘I Before E’ and All That

Jan. 23, 2017

51:42

Episode 88: The Long and Short of It

Jan. 4, 2017

53:12

Episode 87: The First Spelling Reformers

Dec. 7, 2016

55:51

Episode 86: Family of Rebels

Nov. 15, 2016

49:45

Episode 85: How to Run an Empire

Oct. 24, 2016

59:12

Episode 84: Law, Order and Murder

Sept. 29, 2016

60:56

Episode 83: A Trilingual Nation

Sept. 5, 2016

52:50

Episode 82: A Marriage for the Ages

Aug. 3, 2016

52:45

Episode 81: Love Songs and Troubadours

July 15, 2016

57:47

Announcement: 10 American Presidents Podcast

July 1, 2016

1:43

Episode 80: Knight Life

June 23, 2016

64:54

Episode 79: Anarchy

May 18, 2016

49:46

Episode 78: Under Siege

April 29, 2016

53:57

Episode 77: Rival Relatives and the Land of Scots

April 11, 2016

50:55

Episode 76: The Gender Problem

March 25, 2016

48:26

Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs

March 2, 2016

Episode 74: Head Cities and Home Towns

Feb. 15, 2016

Episode 73: Possession, Power and Checkmate

Jan. 30, 2016

Episode 72: The Dark Ages of English

Jan. 11, 2016

Episode 71: On The Hunt

Dec. 5, 2015

Episode 70: Mind Your Manors For Pete’s Sake

Nov. 15, 2015

Episode 69: From Conquest to Domesday

Oct. 30, 2015

Episode 68: Rebels With a Cause

Oct. 16, 2015

Episode 67: The Year That Changed English

Sept. 18, 2015

Episode 66: Broken Promises and the Eve of Conquest

Aug. 20, 2015

Episode 65: Norman Dukes and Dialects

July 31, 2015

56:13

Episode 64: Feudalism and Early Normans

July 10, 2015

Bonus Episode 7: Stuffed Animals

June 25, 2015

Episode 63: Restorations and Remedies

June 2, 2015

Episode 62: Flesh and Blood

May 11, 2015

Episode 61: Earls and Churls

April 22, 2015

61:32

Episode 60: Danes, Death and Taxes

March 30, 2015

Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal

March 11, 2015

Episode 58: Bibliophiles and Bookworms

Feb. 18, 2015

Episode 57: The Wessex Literary Revival

Jan. 28, 2015

Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong

Jan. 15, 2015

Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be

Dec. 30, 2014

Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons

Dec. 13, 2014

Episode 53: The End of Endings

Nov. 24, 2014

Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal

Nov. 7, 2014

Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English

Oct. 24, 2014

Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers

Oct. 9, 2014

Episode 49: Vikings Among the English and French

Sept. 17, 2014

Episode 48: The Unity of Alfred’s English

Sept. 3, 2014

Bonus Episode 6: Beowulf Deconstructed

Aug. 28, 2014

Episode 47: The Man Who Saved English

Aug. 4, 2014

Episode 46: Cynewulf and the Kindred Kings

July 15, 2014

Episode 45: To Coin a Phrase – and Money

June 26, 2014

Episode 44: The Romance of Old French

June 6, 2014

Episode 43: Anglo-Saxon Monsters and Mythology

May 21, 2014

Episode 42: Beowulf and Other Viking Ancestors

May 7, 2014

Bonus Episode 5: Odds and Ends

April 25, 2014

Episode 41: New Words From Old English

April 8, 2014

Episode 40: Learning Latin and Latin Learning

March 21, 2014

Episode 39: Not Lost in Translation

March 5, 2014

Episode 38: Nobles, Nuptials and a Cowherd Poet

Feb. 17, 2014

Episode 37: Seafarers, Poets and Traveling Minstrels

Jan. 21, 2014

Episode 36: Finalizing the Alphabet

Dec. 23, 2013

Episode 35: English Sounds and Roman Letters

Dec. 12, 2013

Episode 34: Sounds Like Old English

Nov. 27, 2013

Episode 33: Missionaries and Manuscripts

Nov. 7, 2013

Bonus Episode 4: Let Me ‘Buoy’ Your Spirits

Oct. 29, 2013

Episode 32: The Oldest English

Oct. 18, 2013

Episode 31: Saxons, Franks and Other West Germans

Sept. 25, 2013

Episode 30: The Celtic Legacy

Sept. 6, 2013

Episode 29: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion

Aug. 13, 2013

Episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians

Aug. 7, 2013

Episode 27: Broken Empire and Fractured Languages

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 26: Imperial Crisis and the Goths

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 25: Germanic Markings and the Runes

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 24: Germanic Mythology

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 23: Tacitus and Germanic Society

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 21: Early Germanic Words

Aug. 5, 2013

Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 20: The Early Germanic Tribes

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 17: Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 16: The Rise of Rome – and Latin

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 13: Greece, Phoenicia and the Alphabet

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)

Aug. 5, 2013

1:13:06

Bonus Episode 1

Aug. 5, 2013

Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors

Sept. 9, 2012

30:17

Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations

Sept. 5, 2012

42:47

Episode 9: Who Were the Indo-Europeans?

Aug. 24, 2012

40:48

Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)

Aug. 16, 2012

32:49

Episode 7: More Indo-European Words

Aug. 9, 2012

Episode 6: Indo-European Words

July 26, 2012

38:18

Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C

July 18, 2012

43:20

Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

July 11, 2012

50:17

Episode 3: The Indo-European Family Tree

July 2, 2012

34:46

Episode 2: The Indo-European Discovery

June 25, 2012

33:01

Episode 1: Introduction

June 18, 2012

23:59