Thursday, April 17, 2008

Put-downs saved for posterity

At £7,500, the 60-volume print volume of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography may be a little beyond your haul of Christmas present book tokens.

But every day you could be receiving in your inbox a free daily email from the DNB's online edition. True, you can't decide which of the 50,000 entries you want to read about, and a subscription for full access to the site costs £195 a year, but the DNB email does throw some fascinating characters at you.

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