Series Links
The following web-links relate to the contributors, locations and topics covered by Beyond Babel and are arranged on a programme by programme basis.
Programme One: Trade
David Crystal
Home page of the series consultant and leading authority on the English Language.
David Crystal’s Blog
A fascinating open discussion on the intricacies of English with David responding to correspondents from around the globe.
Shanghai Expat
A social networking site for English speaking Expats living in Shanghai, China
IMG
IMG is the world’s premier and most diversified sports, entertainment and media company.
The British Council
Portal site for The British Council, who have been actively promoting and teaching English around the world for the past 75 years.
Business English
A subsection of the BBC’s Learning English website, focusing on Business English usage.
English As A Second Language
About.com English learning portal with a wide range of topics and useful links.
The Routes of English
BBC Radio 4 series in which Melvyn Bragg explores the influences shaping modern English.
British Newspapers On-line
A portal site for UK media with links to all major media outlets.
Dictionary
Extensive portal site which links to more than 500 dictionaries in 140 different languages.
OLSET
Open Learning System Education Trust is a South African-based NGO working in collaboration with the country’s National and Provincial Departments of Education.
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, houses a unique historical collection of Britain’s maritime history.
Trade & Empire
The British Empire was largely the result of maritime expansion. This important aspect of British and world history is approached through the following topics: Trading Nations, Conquest and Commerce, Life at Sea, Eastern Traders and Slavery.
Harvard Business School
Website of America’s famed International business school.
Coca Cola
Global soft drink brand portal site.
Bloomberg
Global financial news service website.
BBC Business News
BBC’s business news featuring video and audio content.
Asia One
Headlines news from The Straits Times and The Business Times; covers a number of topics, including news, stock markets, real estate, and trade.
NATS
National Air Traffic Control School, site of the UK ’s air traffic controller’s education centre.
Changzheng Middle School
Changzheng Middle School, Shanghai, was founded in 1965. The School moved to a new campus equipped with modern facilities in 1997. At present the school has 106 staff and 1100 students.
BT Mahindra
Website of Indian telecommunications company.
The Thomson Foundation
The Thomson Foundation is a charity that trains journalists and others in the media throughout the world. We also offer support and advice to media organisations looking to change.
Programme Two: Culture
Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe was founded by Sam Wanamaker and is dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust came into existence after the purchase of Shakespeare’s Birthplace in 1847 in order to preserve it as a national monument.
The First Folio of William Shakespeare
The First Web Folio Edition of Shakespeare’s Works.
Shakespeare Complete Works
Shakespeare’s complete works available for download.
Shakespeare Resource Centre
Collected links to Shakespeare on the web.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Plays, information and booking support.
Christian Broadcasting Network
Pat Robertson’s evangelical television network.
The Bible
The Holy Bible, King James Version. Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha The Electronic Text Centre, University of Virginia.
The British Library
Website for the British Library which holds 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings.
African Christianity
A history of African Christianity.
Anglican Church Southern Africa
A Short History of South Africa
African History Primary Resources
A History of Slavery
Compiled from archive, library and Internet source documentation, a time-line on slavery.
Slavery History
This issue of History in Focus looks at the history of slavery and the resources available to study it.
Slavery In The United States
Slavery in the United States. Slave Accounts. Charles Ball · Harriet Jacobs and others.
Georgia State University
Located in the South east’s governmental, financial, retail, health and legal centre — down town Atlanta — Georgia State is a place where teaching, research and service are woven together to create a meaningful learning experience.
Mary Zeigler
Dr Mary Zeigler serves in the English Department at Georgia State University, Atlanta, as an associate professor of English Language and Linguistics. Here own website may be found here.
African American Studies
Internes resources directory.
American English
Papers on American dialects, including Black American English.
African American Vernacular English<
North American Black English
Top sites for North American Black English as selected by Alexa.
Geoffrey Nunberg
Home page for Geoffrey Nunberg,
Rock The Vote
Home page to the political action organisation.
South African English
BBC’s Routes of English programme on South African English, including sound clips.
The Market Theatre
The Market Theatre is renowned world-wide for brilliant anti-apartheid plays that have included Woza Albert, Asinamali, Bopha, Sophiatown, as well as the premières of many of Athol Fugard’s award-winning dramas.
John Kani
Who’s Who entry for Dr John Kani.
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize biography.
Nadine Gordimer Interview
Salon Magazine interview with Nobel Prize winning author.
Indian Literature
Indian literature written in English.
Sir Mark Tully
Biography of former BBC India journalist.
Language, Location and Culture
Lecture and podcast by Harish Trivedi, Professor of English at the University of Delhi. A former Vice-Chair of the International Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies,
The Hindu
The Hindu newspaper on-line.
Channel V
Indian TV music and entertainmenmt channel homepage.
Planet Bollywood
Bollywood news site.
Glamsham
Indian Entertainment on-line magazine.
Internet Movie Database
Leading movie database.
Japanese Pop Culture
Links site.
NHK
Japan’s national broadcaster NHK.
Japan Reference
General reference site for Japanese society.
Metropolis Magazine
Japan’s No.1 English magazine.
Paul Smith
Fashion designer Paul Smith.
Babamania
Japanese rock band Babamania.
Programme Three: Politics
CNN
Main US site for international news broadcaster.
BBC
Broadcaster homepage.
The Massachusetts Historical Society
The Massachusetts Historical Society is an independent research library that collects, preserves, makes accessible, and communicates manuscripts and other materials in order to promote the study of the history of Massachusetts and the nation-a mission it has pursued since 1791.
John Bull and Uncle Sam
A joint project of the Library of Congress and The British Library, the exhibition brings together treasures from the two greatest libraries in the English-speaking world in an exploration of selected time periods and cultural movements that provide unique insights into the relationship of the United States and Great Britain.
US Immigration
History recourses for US immigration.
Immigration
US immigration links from Yahoo.
Geoffrey Nunberg
Home page for Geoffrey Nunberg, professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.
Big Apple Greeter
Home page of this volunteer organization.
Henry Street Settlement
Founded in 1893 by social work pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social service and arts programming to more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year.
Library Of Congress Immigration Pages
Ellis Island Photographs
Images from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division showing members of immigrant groups arriving at New York’s Ellis Island.
The English Speaking Union
The English-Speaking Union is an international charity founded in 1918 to promote “international understanding and friendship through the use of the English language.
The Star Newspaper
South African newspaper.
Apartheid Museum
Johannesburg Museum website.
History of Apartheid
Stanford site detailing the use of computer technology to sustain Apartheid.
Apartheid Economic History
Article of the the economic foundations of Apartheid.
Apartheid Images
UN website with photographs of Apartheid South Africa.
FW de Klerk Foundation
The FW de Klerk Foundation is committed to upholding the national accord that was negotiated between 1990 and 1996 by political parties representing substantial majorities from all South Africa’s communities.
Interview George Bizos
Interview with eminent South African Human Rights lawyer.
Network Africa
BBC World Service Africa pages.
EU Commission For Education and Culture
EU cultural portal site.
European Minority Languages
Extensive links to all European minority language sites.
Linguistic Rights
A UNESCO links and resources page.
Linguistic Atlas Project
The Telsur Project is a survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is the creator of the Atlas of North American English.
US English
Home site for US English lobbying organization.
US Language Policy
Language policy in the US, viewed by writer James Crawford.
Hispanic Population of the United States
US census bureau site.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Organization whose programs are designed to increase the participation of Hispanics in the public and private sector.
US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Organization to advocate, promote and facilitate the success of Hispanic business.
Pathfinder
Links to Latino sites.
Hispanic On-line
On-line magazine for Hispanic Americans.
Latino Web
Latino portal site.
Thomas Patterson
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Kyoto Conference on Endangered Languages
Endangered Languages
How do researchers know when a language is dying? Does “endangered” mean “doomed?” SIL is concerned for languages, the people who speak them, and the cultures they express. Founded over 70 years ago, SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages.
Foundation For Endangered Languages
The Foundation for Endangered Languages supports, enables and assists the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages. This website announces our varied activities, and includes our newsletter Ogmios and details of our conferences.
Endangered Language Fund
ELF was founded ten years ago with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Our main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums.
Endangered Languages
The main purpose of this website is to provide information about the language families of the world and their most important and populous members, including their history, status, their linguistic characteristics, and their writing in as simple and concise a way as possible.
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
HRELP aims to document endangered languages, train language documenters, preserve and disseminate documentation materials, and support endangered languages. It operates from a donation of £20 million from Arcadia. HRELP is based at SOAS, University of London.
UNESCO Red Book : European Endangered Languages
Native American Languages
Links and resources for study.
Indigenous Languages
Links to Native American sites, plus a history indigenous languages.
Native Languages Page
Comprehensive links to Native American languages.
Danny Ammon’s Hupa Language Website
Resources on the Hupa language compiled by teacher Danny Ammon.
Hupa Indians
Cultural overview of the Hupa people of Northern California.
Programme Four: Future
NASA
Home page for America ’s space programme.
The Industrial Revolution
History resources for Britain’s 19th century Industrial Revolution.
Yahoo English Language Directory
Large links site for all aspects to the English language.
Library Of Congress
US Library of Congress homepage.
The British Library
UK’s British Library homepage.
Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive English language dictionary.
Encarta
Microsoft Encarta on-line dictionary.
Library Web
Searchable and categorized links to over 7000 pages from libraries in over 100 countries, including academic, public and national libraries worldwide.
Yahoo Libraries Page
Links to thousands of on-line libraries.
African Internet Stats
African Internet usage and population statistics.
African Internet Providers Database
Reports and Papers about Networking in the Region Connectivity and Topology.
Internet Development In Africa
The idea of Acacia emerged at the 1996 Information Society and Development Conference, the first event of its kind held in a developing country, South Africa, and was thus closely associated from the outset with efforts by developing countries, particularly in Africa, to ensure that their voices would help shape the Global Information.
Infosys
Leading Indian IT company.
John Seely Brown
Visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Centre for Edge Innovation.
PARC
Founded in 1970 as part of Xerox Research and chartered to create “the architecture of information”, PARC was incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business. PARC has contributed to the creation of more than 30 companies and is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing.
Wired
Leading US technology magazine.
British Telecom
British Telecom Innovation website.
Babelfish
Yahoo On-line translator page.
Free Website Translator
World Lingo free website translator.
Free Translator
FreeTranslation.com is one of the most popular websites of its kind, with in excess of 2 million visitors per week. FreeTranslation.com allows users to obtain free translations of both text and web pages. The translation is generated by a computer, displayed instantly.
CNN International
International site for CNN’s news operation.
BBC Worldservice
Home page of the BBC’s World Service, the first global broadcaster.
The Japan Times
English language edition of the Japanese newspaper.
The Asahi Shimbun
English edition of this Japanese newspaper.
Doshisha Women’s College
Kyoto based women’s college, home of Japanese Shakespeare.
International Education Centre
Japanese Language Institute, Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin
National Assembly, Wales
The National Assembly is the 60 Assembly Members (AMs) elected by the people of Wales. They meet in a debating chamber in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.
Welsh Language Board
Useful background information about the Welsh language and about the Welsh Language Board and its work.
Welsh Language Course
This course is one suitable for beginners. The main emphasis of the course is in developing conversational skills in Welsh as it is currently spoken (as contrasted with teaching the forms needed for understanding literary Welsh).
History of the Welsh Language
Welsh is one of the Celtic languages still spoken, with the greatest number of speakers. The only natural communities of speakers are in that part of Britain which is called Wales, and a small colony in Patagonia (in the Chubut province of Argentina).
A Welsh Informatory
This site is a directory of information to do with the Welsh language.
BBC Wales
BBC’s Welsh service.
Pobol Y Cwm
Website for this Welsh language soap opera.
Gaelic Broadcasting Report
Report commissioned by the Scottish Executive.
Isidingo
Website for this South Africa soap.
South African Languages
The Republic of South Africa has eleven official languages and prides itself on its diversity. This website is concerned with the languages (official and non-official) spoken in South Africa. Use the hyperlinks below to get more information on specific languages or language issues.
Ethnologue
An encyclopaedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages.