Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad
Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine
Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend
Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie
From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith
Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon
Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen
The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank
Correctness and its Origins / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone
Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton
English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey
English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur
Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal.