A work of fiction

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 24, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE LATEST edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has been described as "the intellectual equivalent of the Millennium Dome" after the discovery that it is riddled with errors.

A number of amateur historians have noticed glaring inaccuracies in several entries and say that the lax editorial process makes a mockery of the pounds 7,500 retail price.

The 2004 edition of the 60-volume reference book was published by Oxford University Press last month. It contains 54,922 biographies of people who shaped Britain's past and took 12 years to compile.

In spite of the time it took to ...

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