Search
Discover
My Podcasts
Sign In
Sign In
Discover
My Podcasts
The History of English Podcast
Kevin Stroud
Subscribe
Overview
Episodes
Details
The Spoken History of a Global Language
Recent Episodes
JAN 30, 2025
Episode 181: Heaven and Earth
The invention of the telescope in the early 1600s laid the foundation for the scientific revolution, but it also disrupted the traditional view of the universe and led to a conflict with the Catholic Church. Meanwhile,
81 MIN
JAN 17, 2025
Episode 181: Heaven and Earth
The invention of the telescope in the early 1600s laid the foundation for the scientific revolution, but it also disrupted the traditional view of the universe and led to a conflict with the Catholic Church. Meanwhile,
81 MIN
NOV 13, 2024
Episode 180: English on the Move
In the first decade of the 1600s, English speakers were on the move as they established the first permanent English settlement in North America. They also began a steady a migration to northern Ireland after an event known to history as the Flight of t...
74 MIN
SEP 24, 2024
Episode 179: Defining Moments
In the early 1600s, several landmark events shaped the history of England and determined how and where the English language would be spoken in the centuries that followed. The period from 1602-1605 saw the end of the Elizabethan era,
86 MIN
AUG 7, 2024
Episode 178: Much Ado About Hamlet
In the first couple of years of the 1600s, several new Shakespeare plays appeared. Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It were recorded in the Stationer's Register, and a third play called The Tragedy of Hamlet,
77 MIN
See all episodes