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www.soon.org.uk/page18.htm
Provides a succinct (one-page) history of English

ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
A portal to histories of the English language (covers pre-history, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and American and Present Day forms).

www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
Shows images of the Old English manuscript of Beowulf, with eighteenth-century transcriptions.

www.rampantscotland.com/gaelic.htm
Provides information on Gaelic and Scots language and Celtic culture.

allaboutirish.com/library/language/irishwords.htm
Site identifying Irish words used in the English Language.