A History of the English-Speaking Peoples A History of the English-Speaking Peoples A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning of the First World War (1914). It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–58, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition. Churchill, who excelled in the study of history as a child and whose mother was American, had a firm belief
Kra–Dai-speaking peoples Kra–Dai-speaking peoples The Kra–Dai-speaking peoples refer collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from Hainan to Northeast India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand and parts of Vietnam, which speak languages in the Kra–Dai language family and share some similar traditions. There are five established branches of the Kra–Dai languages, which may not correspond to ethnicity: The Lakkia people of Guangxi Autonomous Region of China ("Tai Lakka" in neighboring portions of Vietnam) are ethnically of Yao, but speak a Kra–Dai language called "Lakkia". These Yao were likely in an area dominated by Tai speakers