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This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of Engli

Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the fu

A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Re

The dark ages of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh cent