On this page, you will find additional resources related to teaching the history of the English language suggested by the volume’s contributors.
Websites
English Timeline, The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/englishtimeline
Examining the OED
http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/index.html
The Great Vowel Shift
http://facweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/what.htm
HEL Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/439344952930378/
HEL on the Web
https://sites.google.com/site/helontheweb/
History of the English Language, University of Toronto
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/
North Carolina Language and Life Project
https://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/llp.php
Old English Aerobics
www.oldenglishaerobics.net
The Oxford English Dictionary
www.oed.com
Sound Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
Films and Podcasts
Do You Speak American?
www.pbs.org/speak/education
The Adventure of English
www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/adventure-of-english
The Story of English
www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/story-of-english
The History of English Podcast
www.historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes
Workbooks
Trask, R.L. Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2007.
Alego, John and Carmen Butcher. The Origins and Development of the English Language. 7th ed., Cengage Learning, 2013.
Textbooks and Reference Books
Anthony, David. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Baker, Peter. Introduction to Old English. 3rd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Baugh, Albert and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th ed., Routledge, 2013.
Bolton, W.F. A Living Language: The History and Structure of English. Random House, 1982.
Bragg, Melvyn. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. Arcade Publishing, 2004.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Crystal, David. The Stories of English. Overlook Books, 2004.
Fennell, Barbara. A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
Fortson, Benjamin. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Gorlach, Manfred. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Hogg, Richard and David Denison.The Cambridge History of English. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Jespersen, Otto. Growth and Structure of the English Language. Cole Press, 2013.
Knowles, Gerry. A Cultural History of the English Language. Routledge, 1997.
Lerer, Seth. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Columbia University Press, 2015.
McWhorter, John. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. Avery, 2009.
Millward, C.M, and Mary Hayes. A Biography of the English Language. 3rd ed., Cengage Learning, 2012.
Nevalainen, Terttu and Elizabeth Closs Traugott.The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Penny, Ralph. A History of the Spanish Language. 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.). Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007.
Schendl, Herbert. Historical Linguistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study Series). Oxford University Press, 2001.
Short, Mick. Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Routledge, 1996.
Singh, Ishtla. The History of English: A Student’s Guide. Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Smith, Jeremy. Essentials of Early English: Old, Middle and Early Modern English. 2nd ed., Routledge, 2005.
Smith, Jeremy. An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change. Routledge, 1996.
Trudgill, Peter and Richard Watts. Alternative Histories of English. Routledge, 2001.
Watkins, Calvert. How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford University Press, 2001.