Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary
Peter Gilliver, The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (2016)
The Makers of the Oxford English Dictionary (Gilliver's website)
Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (2023)
Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary (6v. 1898-1905)
Varieties of English. 1 The British Isles (2008)
West Country
Wikipedia: West Country English
West Country Dialects - History and Origins
Norman Rogers, Wessex Dialect (1979)
Cornwall
The Dialect of Cornwall (archived website)
The Dictionary of Cornish Dialect (website)
East Anglia
Wikipedia: East Anglian English
Multicultural London English
Rebecca Mead, The common tongue of Twenty-First Century London (New Yorker article, 2022)
Paul Kerswill, Multicultural London English (website)
Simon Roper, A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries (youtube video, 2021)
Simon Roper, An Upper-Class Southern British Accent, 1673-2023 (youtube video, 2023)
Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End (article, 2025)
Islands
Mari C.Jones, Channel Island English (book chapter, 2010)
Heinrich Ramisch, Channel Island English: phonology(book chapter, 2004)
Release notes: Manx English pronunciation (OED)
Historical
Dictionary of Old English Corpus (2009)
Dictionary of Old English (microfiche)
A Thesaurus of Old English (website)
Michael Drout, King Alfred's Grammar (electronic book)
Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) (resources page)
TOEBI : Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (fb page)
Original Pronunciation: Old English (website)
Anglo-Norman Dictionary (website)
Anglo-Norman Dictionary (facebook page)
Geert De Wilde, Towards Completing the Second Edition of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (Dictionary 42(2) 2021)
A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English 1150 to 1325
Paul Schaffner, The Middle English Dictionary Revenant (Dictionaries 40(2) 2019)
Richard Ashdowne: Ut Latine minus vulgariter magis loquamur: the making of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (book chapter, 2011)
Cotton MS Titus A XV (16th century Old English dictionary)
John Considine, Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries (2022)
Sarah Star, ed, Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing (book, 2022)
Simon Roper, Conversational English in 1586 (youtube video, 2024)
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language (project website)
Gabriele Stein, Word Studies in the Renaissance (2017)
Jukka Tyrkkö, A Physical Dictionary (1657): The First English Medical Dictionary (2008 conference paper)
Original Pronunciation: Early Modern English (website)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online