A History of the English-Speaking Peoples out and then when Churchill was appointed Prime Minister. After the war ended in 1945, Churchill was busy, first writing his history of that conflict and then as Prime Minister again between 1951 and 1955, and so it was not until the late 1950s, when Churchill was in his early eighties, that he was able to finish the work. The later volumes were completed when Churchill was over eighty. A full one-third of the last volume was devoted to the military minutiae of the American Civil War. Social history, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution hardly get a mention.
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