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The History of English Podcast

The History of English Podcast
'Buckle up language enthusiasts and history buffs, prepare to enter the word-nerd realm! Welcome to The History of English Podcast – a riveting journey through the roller-coaster ride of language evolution, hosted by the delightful Kevin Stroud. Retracing the footsteps of our English linguistic ancestors, this podcast does for words what David Attenborough does for wildlife - fascinates, educates, and entertains! From mind-boggling Old English sagas to linguistic adventurers called Normans, learn about the roots, shoots, and fruits of English language. Geared towards anyone who's ever wondered "Why the heck do we say that?", this podcast serves language lessons with a hearty side of history. Sit back, plug in and boost that brain with the most melodious chronicle of the English language!

Latest The History of English Podcast Episodes

Episode 183: The Fabric of Our Lives

Tue, 13 May 2025 16:33:45 +0000
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Episode 182: World of Confusion

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:23:50 +0000
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Episode 181: Heaven and Earth

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:42:23 +0000
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Episode 180: English on the Move

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:45:57 +0000
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Episode 179: Defining Moments

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:54:35 +0000
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Episode 178: Much Ado About Hamlet

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:01:04 +0000
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Episode 177: Dressed for Success

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:58:54 +0000
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Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse

Thu, 09 May 2024 14:57:24 +0000
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Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:17:40 +0000
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Episode 174: Speak and Spell

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:04:09 +0000
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Episode 173: Fooling Around

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:09:12 +0000
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Episode 172: Succession

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:58:19 +0000
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Episode 171: Shakespeare’s English (featuring Ben Crystal)

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:47:39 +0000
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Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:27:03 +0000
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Episode 169: Shakespeare Documented

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:47:58 +0000
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Episode 168: Witches, Demons and Fairies

Wed, 31 May 2023 04:37:58 +0000
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Episode 167: The Rhythm of English

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:28:42 +0000
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Bonus Episode: Rise and Fall of the Classic Movie Accent

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:31:06 +0000
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Episode 166: The Arte of Warre

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:52:12 +0000
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Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:50:11 +0000
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Episode 164: Somewhere in the Middle

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:30:23 +0000
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Episode 163: An Elementary Education

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:23:57 +0000
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Episode 162: The Pirate Queen

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:15:40 +0000
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Episode 161: Y U and I Have a Problem

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:12:49 +0000
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Episode 160: Approximant-ly English

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:35:41 +0000
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Episode 159: Elizabethan Voices

Wed, 18 May 2022 04:31:16 +0000
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Episode 158: Planting Seeds

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 12:37:33 +0000
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Episode 157: Highlands, Lowlands and Netherlands

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:32:15 +0000
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Episode 156: Beggars, Cheats and Thieves

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:27:10 +0000
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Episode 155: Back to Basics

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:04:03 +0000
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Episode 154: English Equality

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:27:56 +0000
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Episode 153: Zombie Letters

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 15:19:03 +0000
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Episode 152: As the Saying Goes

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:37:58 +0000
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Episode 151: Sick to Death

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 03:57:05 +0000
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Episode 150: A Capital Offense

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:30:11 +0000
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Episode 149: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:58:21 +0000
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Episode 148: A Marital Union

Wed, 26 May 2021 04:57:36 +0000
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Episode 147: A Rude and Rusty Language

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 04:50:05 +0000
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Episode 146: A Brand New World

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 05:15:42 +0000
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Episode 145: A Sea Change for Europe

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 04:30:07 +0000
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Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 05:34:06 +0000
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Bonus Episode: Chaucer’s Purse and the Great Vowel Shift

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:31:16 +0000
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Episode 143: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 3)

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:54:35 +0000
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Episode 142: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 2)

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:54:51 +0000
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Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1)

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:31:10 +0000
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Episode 140: You Say ‘To-may-to’

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 05:03:08 +0000
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Episode 139: The Business of Printing

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 05:36:13 +0000
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Episode 138: Family Matters

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 05:58:51 +0000
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Episode 137: A Rose By Any Other Name

Sat, 23 May 2020 12:49:39 +0000
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Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:34:40 +0000
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Bonus Episode: Stay at Home Edition

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:08:54 +0000
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Episode 135: A House of Cards

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:13:02 +0000
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Episode 134: A Lancastrian Standard

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:26:47 +0000
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Episode 133: Breaking Bread With Companions

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:08:11 +0000
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Episode 132: Food for Thought

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:12:19 +0000
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Episode 131: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:10:45 +0000
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Episode 130: Dialect Dialogues

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:06:51 +0000
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Episode 129: Chaucer’s Vulgar Tongue [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:33:10 +0000
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Bonus Episode: The Life of Guy – An Interview with Allan Metcalf

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:52:44 +0000
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Episode 128: The Canterbury Tellers

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:14:39 +0000
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Episode 127: The Road to Canterbury

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:21:03 +0000
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Episode 126: A New Turn of Phrase

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:25:58 +0000
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Episode 125: The First English Bible

Tue, 28 May 2019 18:56:42 +0000
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Episode 124: Piers Plowman and the Peasant Revolt

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:05:32 +0000
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Episode 123: A Material Change

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:23:11 +0000
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Episode 122: The Name of the Game

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:11:47 +0000
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Episode 121: English Ascent

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:01:54 +0000
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Episode 120: The End of the World

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:37:27 +0000
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Episode 119: The Road to War

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:57:40 +0000
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Bonus Episode: Regarding English (Sound Education Conference Talk)

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:19:33 +0000
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Episode 118: Trade Names

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:47:30 +0000
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Episode 117: What’s In a Name?

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:33:20 +0000
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Episode 116: The Celtic Fringe

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:31:23 +0000
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Episode 115: The Measure of a Person

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 11:27:54 +0000
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Episode 114: The Craft of Numbering

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 04:18:27 +0000
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Episode 113: A Zouthern Accent

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:12:20 +0000
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Episode 112: Northern Messenger

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:42:35 +0000
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Episode 111: Laying Down the Law

Thu, 10 May 2018 14:08:52 +0000
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Episode 110: Dyed In the Wool

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:57:20 +0000
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Episode 109: The Romantic Warriors

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:05:08 +0000
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Episode 108: On the Move

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:53:45 +0000
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Episode 107: Parlez-Vous Anglais?

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:32:48 +0000
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Episode 106: An Illuminating Development

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 19:43:34 +0000
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Episode 105: Suffix Summary

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:14:39 +0000
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Episode 104: Prefix Preferences

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:07:00 +0000
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Episode 103: Solitary Confinement

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:12:04 +0000
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Episode 102: A Medieval Glossary

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:58:37 +0000
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Episode 101: The Birth of English Song

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:43:47 +0000
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Episode 100: Decoding English

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:46:07 +0000
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Episode 99: The Second French Invasion

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:45:58 +0000
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Episode 98: The Great Debates

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:11:39 +0000
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Episode 97: Let’s Put It In Writing

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:18:39 +0000
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Episode 96: From Alpha to Omega

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:14:51 +0000
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Episode 95: Old School and New School

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:31:17 +0000
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Episode 94: From British Legend to English King

Wed, 24 May 2017 01:15:29 +0000
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Episode 93: The Two Arthurs

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:19:32 +0000
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Episode 92: The Lion Kings

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:52:22 +0000
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Episode 91: Traders and Traitors

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:23:26 +0000
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Episode 90: Healers, Hospitals and Holy Wars

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:24:47 +0000
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Episode 89: ‘I Before E’ and All That

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:35:59 +0000
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Episode 88: The Long and Short of It

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:16:19 +0000
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Episode 87: The First Spelling Reformers

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:24:13 +0000
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Episode 86: Family of Rebels

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:48:17 +0000
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Episode 85: How to Run an Empire

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:17:10 +0000
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Episode 84: Law, Order and Murder

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:53:55 +0000
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Episode 83: A Trilingual Nation

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 23:58:25 +0000
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Episode 82: A Marriage for the Ages

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:06:14 +0000
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Episode 81: Love Songs and Troubadours

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:01:36 +0000
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Announcement: 10 American Presidents Podcast

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:13:01 +0000
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Episode 80: Knight Life

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 02:49:11 +0000
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Episode 79: Anarchy

Wed, 18 May 2016 15:31:26 +0000
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Episode 78: Under Siege

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:49:33 +0000
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Episode 77: Rival Relatives and the Land of Scots

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 01:21:30 +0000
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Episode 76: The Gender Problem

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:52:57 +0000
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Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:11:23 +0000
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Episode 74: Head Cities and Home Towns

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:23:30 +0000
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Episode 73: Possession, Power and Checkmate

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:42:54 +0000
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Episode 72: The Dark Ages of English

Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:24:24 +0000
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Episode 71: On The Hunt

Sat, 05 Dec 2015 01:03:47 +0000
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Episode 70: Mind Your Manors For Pete’s Sake

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:59:47 +0000
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Episode 69: From Conquest to Domesday

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 20:26:17 +0000
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Episode 68: Rebels With a Cause

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:02:41 +0000
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Episode 67: The Year That Changed English

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:48:58 +0000
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Episode 66: Broken Promises and the Eve of Conquest

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:02:30 +0000
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Episode 65: Norman Dukes and Dialects

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:20:00 +0000
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Episode 64: Feudalism and Early Normans

Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:06:18 +0000
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Bonus Episode 7: Stuffed Animals

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 05:32:46 +0000
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Episode 63: Restorations and Remedies

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:53:59 +0000
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Episode 62: Flesh and Blood

Mon, 11 May 2015 00:40:51 +0000
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Episode 61: Earls and Churls

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:32:30 +0000
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Episode 60: Danes, Death and Taxes

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:44:35 +0000
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Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:19:56 +0000
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Episode 58: Bibliophiles and Bookworms

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:59:11 +0000
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Episode 57: The Wessex Literary Revival

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:11:05 +0000
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Episode 56: The Weak vs The Strong

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:19:50 +0000
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Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:28:29 +0000
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Episode 54: Pronoun Pros and Cons

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:12:17 +0000
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Episode 53: The End of Endings

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:38:21 +0000
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Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:00:49 +0000
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Episode 51: Norse Words and a New English

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:31:55 +0000
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Episode 50: A Unified Family of English Speakers

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:04:15 +0000
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Episode 49: Vikings Among the English and French

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:29:55 +0000
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Episode 48: The Unity of Alfred’s English

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:57:31 +0000
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Bonus Episode 6: Beowulf Deconstructed

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:16:51 +0000
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Episode 47: The Man Who Saved English

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:20:53 +0000
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Episode 46: Cynewulf and the Kindred Kings

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:22:09 +0000
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Episode 45: To Coin a Phrase – and Money

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:14:33 +0000
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Episode 44: The Romance of Old French

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:24:21 +0000
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Episode 43: Anglo-Saxon Monsters and Mythology

Wed, 21 May 2014 03:51:32 +0000
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Episode 42: Beowulf and Other Viking Ancestors

Wed, 07 May 2014 01:46:09 +0000
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Bonus Episode 5: Odds and Ends

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:55:34 +0000
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Episode 41: New Words From Old English

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:51:12 +0000
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Episode 40: Learning Latin and Latin Learning

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:23:34 +0000
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Episode 39: Not Lost in Translation

Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:38:04 +0000
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Episode 38: Nobles, Nuptials and a Cowherd Poet

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:36:43 +0000
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Episode 37: Seafarers, Poets and Traveling Minstrels

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:25:41 +0000
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Episode 36: Finalizing the Alphabet

Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:21:50 +0000
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Episode 35: English Sounds and Roman Letters

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:27:06 +0000
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Episode 34: Sounds Like Old English

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:31:16 +0000
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Episode 33: Missionaries and Manuscripts

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:18:30 +0000
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Bonus Episode 4: Let Me ‘Buoy’ Your Spirits

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:55:44 +0000
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Episode 32: The Oldest English

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:38:17 +0000
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Episode 31: Saxons, Franks and Other West Germans

Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:42:59 +0000
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Episode 30: The Celtic Legacy

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 18:40:46 +0000
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Episode 29: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:53:00 +0000
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Episode 28: Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:43:00 +0000
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Episode 27: Broken Empire and Fractured Languages

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:32:00 +0000
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Episode 26: Imperial Crisis and the Goths

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:12:00 +0000
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Episode 25: Germanic Markings and the Runes

Tue, 28 May 2013 18:55:00 +0000
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Episode 24: Germanic Mythology

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:37:00 +0000
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Episode 23: Tacitus and Germanic Society

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:24:00 +0000
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Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:08:00 +0000
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Episode 21: Early Germanic Words

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:49:00 +0000
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Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:22:00 +0000
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Episode 20: The Early Germanic Tribes

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:00:00 +0000
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Episode 19: The Romanization of Britain

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:02:00 +0000
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Episode 18: Keeping Time With The Romans

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:58:00 +0000
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Episode 17: Ancient Celts and the Latin Invasion of Gaul

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:49:00 +0000
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Episode 16: The Rise of Rome – and Latin

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:43:00 +0000
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Episode 15: Etruscans, Romans and a Modified Alphabet

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:40:00 +0000
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Episode 14: The Greek Word Horde

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:37:00 +0000
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Episode 13: Greece, Phoenicia and the Alphabet

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:06:00 +0000
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Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:24:00 +0000
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Bonus Episode 1

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:42:00 +0000
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Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:19:36 +0000
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Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:13:44 +0000
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Episode 9: Who Were the Indo-Europeans?

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:08:07 +0000
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Episode 8: Indo-European Grammar (Where have all the inflexions gone?)

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:45:42 +0000
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Episode 7: More Indo-European Words

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:23:55 +0000
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Episode 6: Indo-European Words

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:17:54 +0000
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Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:09:42 +0000
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Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:05:48 +0000
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Episode 3: The Indo-European Family Tree

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:37:25 +0000
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Episode 2: The Indo-European Discovery

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:31:36 +0000
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Episode 1: Introduction

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:09:38 +0000
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