Best of British

The Spectator | September 25, 2004| | Copyright

Best of British OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison OUP, in association with the British Academy, £6,500 until 30 November, thereafter £7,5000, pp. 61,440, ISBN 019861411Y on-line edition £195 + VAT p.a.

'At this moment a Biographical Dictionary begins to loom on the horizon.' That short, electric sentence is found in the biography of one great Englishman by another, the life of Sir Leslie Stephen by his friend F. W. Maitland, published in 1906. Maitland was the man who reinvented the study of the Middle Ages, of English law, and of how we ...

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