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Of course, if you are into podcasts, there is the fantastic “The History of English” podcast by Kevin Stroud.
He has been taking an historical journey through the development of English from proto-Indo-European and is currently up to the Elizabethan period and 172 episodes so far. There are also lots of side trips to specific topics to mix things up. Very enjoyable listen.
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Simon Roper is great. I was amused how I could understand the 'English' by the late 14th century pronunciation, but understood less when I was in Dublin in the 21st century when native hiberno-English speakers conversed together.
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There's also The Story of English on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtSUPAM-uA&list=PL6D54D1C7D...
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There's no finer student of the subject than him and I appreciate that he starts every video with "I am not [a] formally qualified linguist," yet he has a deeper understanding than most.
Some of my favorite videos:
- Celtic Influence on English [0]
- Progressing Some Words from Proto-Germanic to English [1]
- A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries [2]
- A Northern US Accent from the 18th to the 21st Centuries [3]
- Old English and Middle English; why are they so different? [4]
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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCx43I2Vio
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F72jkM9An5Y
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXv3Tt4x20
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXaXnQv6knQ
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWI_dFxbzyg