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• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

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• From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
• The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
• The Making of English (New York and London: Macmillan, 1924), by Henry Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• On the Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench (Gutenberg text)

• An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Online Etymology Dictionary, by Douglas R. Harper (searchable HTML at etymonline.com)
• The Origin of Medical Terms (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1949), by Henry Alan Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (second edition, 2017), ed. by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee (illustrated HTML with commentary at dchp.ca)

• Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• A Dictionary of the Old English Language, Compiled From Writings of the XII, XIII, XIV, AND XV Centuries (second edition, 1873), by Francis Henry Stratmann
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Patterns of Change in 18th-Century English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, and Tanja Säily (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• The Evolution of English Lexicography, by James A. H. Murray (Gutenberg text)

• Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Elementary English Review (partial serial archives)

• Lexis (full serial archives)

• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (partial serial archives)

• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (1996-) (full serial archives)

• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (1996-) (full serial archives)

• Lexis (full serial archives)

• Lexis (full serial archives)

• The Journal of Basic Writing (online archive, 1975-2003) (partial serial archives)

• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (1996-) (full serial archives)
• English Teaching: Practice and Critique (issues from 2002-2014 are free to access) (partial serial archives)
• The Elementary English Review (partial serial archives)

• The WAC Journal (and predecessor, Plymouth State University Journal on Writing Across the Curriculum) (full serial archives)

• TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (full serial archives)
• The Linguistics Journal (issues from 2006-2013 freely readable online) (partial serial archives)

• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

• Annual Report of the American Historical Association, by American Historical Association (full serial archives)
• Bulletin Social-Economic and Humanitarian Research (2018-) (full serial archives)
• Eras Journal (Monash student history journal, 2001-) (full serial archives)
• Hiperboreea (articles in Romanian, English, and other languages; 2012-) (full serial archives)
• Reviews in History (1996-) (full serial archives)
• Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (partial serial archives)
• The eHistory Bulletin (electronic history journal, 2001-2004), ed. by Timothy May (full serial archives)
• Access: History (U-Queensland student history journal, 1997-ca.2000) (partial serial archives)
• The Early America Review (full serial archives)
• Smith College Studies in History (partial serial archives)
• Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (full serial archives)
• The Annual Register (partial serial archives)
• Historische Zeitschrift (in German) (full serial archives)
• Historisches Jahrbuch (partial serial archives)
• History (partial serial archives)
• The Cambridge Historical Journal (partial serial archives)
• History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research (full serial archives)
• JOUHS: Journal of the Oxford University History Society (partial serial archives)
• Current History (partial serial archives)
• The American Historical Review (partial serial archives)
• The Edinburgh Review (partial serial archives)
• The English Historical Review (partial serial archives)
• Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse (partial serial archives)
• Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse (partial serial archives)
• Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Classe (partial serial archives)
• The Magazine of History, With Notes and Queries (partial serial archives)
• Perspectives (online edition), by American Historical Association (partial serial archives)
• Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (full serial archives)

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