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The History of English in Ten Minutes
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsWhere did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? -
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsBeginning with the development of dictionaries in Early Modern England, Winchester discusses the project that would emerge that would attempt to detail every written word in the English language. -
Galley-foists, Lord Mayors’ Shows, and Early Modern English Drama
Posted on June 24, 2012 | No CommentsWhat is a ‘galley-foist’? According to OED, it is ‘a state barge, esp. that of the Lord Mayor of London’. This definition appears to be wrong however, certainly for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or at the very least so misleading as to require serious qualification. -
Britain 1660-1714: competing historiographies
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No Comments“In the 1970s and 1980s”, Alan Houston and Steve Pincus added in their introduction to A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration (2001), “at the exact high point of revisionist scholarship in early-modern English historiography, modernization theory came under fierce attack throughout the social sciences.






