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The Oxford University Press is to release this year's biggest book, 'The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'.

The 60-volume epic contains 50,000 biographies of great Britons covering over 2,400 years of British history. First published in the late 19th century, the Dictionary of National Biography was the idea of George Smith, who published the Brontes and Trollope, and who had made his money in bottled mineral water. Between 1885 and 1900, 63 volumes appeared at a loss of ...

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