History of English

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