It costs £7,500 to buy the 60-volume print edition or £200 for an annual online subscription to the contents - but for the next two and a half days, you can explore the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’s 55,000 entries for free, writes James Sturcke.
The dictionary has been opened up for the weekend to mark the first anniversary of its publication. It profiles people who have influenced life in the British isles from the 4th century BC to the beginning of this century (a person has to have died before December 31 2001 to qualify for entry).
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