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No I haven't, but thanks, will try to at some point. I do have various books on words, phrases and saying.

I'm aware of some words we've taken from Indian languages, or Anglicised, like: Pundit, Shampoo, Chit, Caravan, Guru etc.
Melvyn Bragg covers it a fair bit in The Adventure of English.


Edit:
When I mentioned conquests I was thinking more of us being conquered. But you're right, we've picked up many words through Empire building in centuries past.

Examples you find in cooking from the Norman Conquest , so we now have things like an animal name being Old English and the meat being from French roots:
Pig / Pork ... Cow / Beef ... Deer / Venison ...

And people and place names still exist in the north east that originate from Viking visits.


One of my favourite words is 'Companion', purely down to the etymology. 
It seems fairly ordinary, mundane even, then you realise it is taken from 'Com' = Latin for 'with' / 'together', and 'Panion' having its roots from the French for bread.
So your companion is someone you share bread with. Then you picture times gone by and can see that travelling companions would have been people that stopped their packhorse, sat down for a break, and shared bread together along the way - and the word suddenly comes alive.... then you read that packhorse bridges had low parapets, so that the panniers on the packhorse wouldn't hit them, and then you realise those panniers on your push-bike mean 'bread basket'.