Sources

Books

• “The Adventure of English” by Melvin Bragg (Sceptre, 2003)
• “Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language” by David Crystal (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• “English as a Global Language” by David Crystal (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• “Mother Tongue” by Bill Bryson (Penguin Books, 1990)

Television Series

• “The Adventure of English“ (ITV, 2003)
• “The Story of English” (PBS/BBC, 1986)

Websites - Basic

• A Brief History of the English Language (Study English Today): https://www.studyenglishtoday.net/english-language-history.html
• A (Very) Brief History of the English Language (Word Origins): https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/a-very-brief-history-of-the-english-language
• Brief History of English (Jeremy Smith): http://members.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionaryclassic/chapters/history.php
• English Language History (English Language Guide): http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/facts/history/
• History of the English Language (English Club): https://www.englishclub.com/history-of-english/
• Language Timeline (British Library Board): https://www.bl.uk/discovering-literature
• The Great Vowel Shift (Geoffrey Chaucer Page): https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/great-vowel-shift
• The History of English (Oxford Dictionaries): https://public.oed.com/history/
• The Origin and History of the English language (KryssTal): http://www.krysstal.com/english.html
• What Are the Origins of the English Language (Merriam Webster): https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-history

Websites - More Detailed

• English History and Its Language Development (English Word Information): https://wordinfo.info/unit/4218?letter=E&spage=4
• History of the English Language (Wikipedia) (and other links from there): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English
• History of the English Language (University of Hawaii): https://manoa.hawaii.edu/catalog/courses/eng-302-history-of-the-english-language-3/
• History of the English Language (University of Toronto): https://learn.utoronto.ca/programs-courses/courses/2414-history-english-language
• Studying the History of English (Raymond Hickey): http://www.raymondhickey.com/index_(SHE).html
• Words In English (Rice University): http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/

Just For Fun

• Alan Cooper’s Homonym List (an alphabetical listing of homonyms): https://www.academia.edu/33091882/Alan_Coopers_Homonym_List
• Anagram Hall of Fame (some of the best, and longest, anagrams in English): https://wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html
• Anagram Server (generate anagrams for any word or phrase you like): https://wordsmith.org/anagram/
• Bartleby.com (complete texts of classic works of literature, reference, Bibles, quotations, etc): https://www.bartleby.com/
• Canadian, British and American Spelling (differences between British and American spelling, and the Canadian hybrid of the two): http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=home
• Common Errors in English Usage (online version of Paul Brian’s book on the most common vocabulary errors of native speakers): https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/
• Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English (words and phrases of foreign origin which are more or less commonly used in English): http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/phrases/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=home
• Literature Network (complete texts of almost 7,000 classic books, short stories and poems by over 250 authors): https://www.online-literature.com/
• Lost Beauties of the English Language (dictionary of obsolete and archaic English words): https://archive.org/details/lostbeautieseng00mackgoog/mode/2up?id=lostbeautieseng00mackgoog&view=theater&ui=embed&wrapper=false
• Phrase Finder (meanings and origins of English phrases, sayings, idioms and expressions): https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/
• RhymeZone (dictionary of rhymes, homophone, synonyms and antonyms): https://www.rhymezone.com/
• Thesaurus.com (online thesaurus of synonyms and antonyms): https://www.thesaurus.com/
• Urban Dictionary (dictionary of current street slang and neologisms and their usage): https://www.urbandictionary.com/