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Credits and Acknowledgements

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Content Author: Helen O'Riain
Content Editor: Barbara Reid

Website development: site design, graphics and content creation, and project management: Footmark Media Ltd

To Liz Armstrong for her rapid and generous responses to queries about dialect
To Niall O'Riain for technical support
To Patience Tomlinson for reading the extracts from the following:

Beowulf for KS3 Roots and Post-16 Origins
Chaucer's The Squire's Tale for KS3 Roots
Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby for KS3 Roots
Chaucer's The Wife of Bath Prologue for Post-16 Origins
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Prologue for Post-16 Origins

For support provided by David Crystal's Encyclopedia of the English Language - a book that no-one interested in the development of the English Language should be without.

To Faber and Faber Ltd for permission to use the poem 'Thistles' from New Selected Poems by Ted Hughes, 1995. This poem should not be downloaded or printed without prior permission of the publisher.

To the author Russell Hoban and Publisher Jonathan Cape for permission to use the extract from Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

From the British Library Collection, extracts from the following:

Beowulf, Edited by A.J. Wyatt, Cambridge University Press, 1925
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green etc, 1927
The Metrical Chronicle of Richard of Gloucester, Edited by W. Aldis Wright, printed for HMSO, 1887
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Walter Scott Limited, 1857
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall and George Routledge & Sons, 1879
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, George Routledge & Sons, 1887

From the University of London Library:

Extracts from The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited by W.W. Skeat, Oxford University Press, 1924

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Everyman's Library Edition, pre-1930 copy owned by Helen O'Riain

Image sources from the British Library for:

Post-16 Origins, Changing Times
	The poem Beowulf, from the 'Cotton' Manuscript
Post-16 Origins
	Chaucer's Wife of Bath from an edition of The Canterbury Tales printed by William Caxton in 1483 Charlotte Bronte's handwritten manuscript for Jane Eyre, 1847.
Post-16 Changing Times
	One of a series of drawings on a 12th Century vellum roll illustrating episodes in the life of St Guthlac. The opening of the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales printed by William Caxton in 1478.
Post-16 Word Building
	Map of the British Empire published in 1886 to promote the ideas of the Imperial Federation League.

KS3 roots
	The poem Beowulf, from the 'Cotton' Manuscript Chaucer's 'Squire', from an edition printed by Richard Pynson in 1492. An illustration of a 'ragged school' from 'The Illustrated London News' of 1853.
KS3 Changing Times
	CFrom a book called Curry and Rice on forty plates by G F Atkinson published in 1859.
KS3 Over to you!
	An illustration by George Cruikshank for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published in 1838. The cover of an 1879 edition of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.

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