Through invasion, invention and global expansion, English has developed into the second language of the world. This gallery will take you on a journey from an eighth century heroic epic to a ...

Lantz’s diagram is also fascinating in that it beautifully illustrates how cultural injections influence the evolution of language. For English, this ranged from the Viking and Norman invasions ...

I didn’t mean to watch this entire thing, but dammit if I didn’t sit through all ten minutes (alright, technically 11 minutes and 20 seconds) of this fantastically witty, animated history of ...

In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court offered up a landmark decision for federal English-learner policy in the Lau v.Nichols case, in which Chinese American families argued that the San Francisco ...

A Nebraska law of 1919, and similar measures in other states, forbade instruction in any school in any language except English. Robert Meyer, the teacher of a one-room Lutheran grade school, was ...

Rogues, knights and fops chart the history of the language Cookies on the BBC website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.

The History of the English Language: a Source Book by J D Burnley (Longman, 2nd edition, 2000) A History of English Words by Geoffrey Hughes (Blackwell, 2000) ... British History Timeline.