History of English

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