[Stoat]

Although I dispute the broad characterization of this work as being the "greatest" cultural enterprise (have the Oxford profs heard of the Bible, by any chance? "tapping foot while waiting for them to answer.....looking at watch.....losing interest in an obviously fruitless effort") - perhaps using a word such as "largest" or "most voluminous" might be more appropriate than 'greatest' which implies cultural significance as well as size - AND I have no doubts that this will be a fully PC, Left-friendly work of contentious scholarship, it will still be interesting to peruse it on occasion. My hope is that my local library gets a set and that it will be issued on DVD or CDRom as well, as the Oxford English Dictionary has been.

[pipecorp]

Imagine being the great Briton who died Jan.1, 2001. Damn, just missed being published!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I wonder if they will have the American Ambassador to England "Walter H. Page" during WWI?

[Martin Tell]

When I studied English history (almost 30 years ago), the DNB was an essential tool. It has compact bios of everyone who is anyone in British history. Great for writing papers on obscure subjects. I'll have to take a look at this new one. I'd like to have a CD/DVD version, but that will probably be very expensive. I have a relative in the old version; wonder what they did to him in this version.

[Stoat]

[SunkenCiv]

gallimaufry? WTF? I might shout that if two hundred spiders were crawling all over me -- "gallimaufry!"