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In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America Line s MS St. Louis, which carried more than 900 hopeful Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany. The passengers subsequently sought safe haven in the United States, but were rejected once again, and the St. Louis had to embark on an uncertain return voyage to Europe. Finally, the St. Louis passengers found refuge in four western European countries, but only the 288 passengers s...

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What do three murderers, a pornography collector, Karl Marx's daughter and a vicar found dead in the cupboard of his chapel have in common?They all helped to create the Oxford English Dictionary.The OED has long been associated with elite institutions and educated men. After all, these forces have dominated how we think about history. But the OED was compiled through crowdsourcing: its editors called on anyone and everyone to send in examples ...

Poetry as Therapy as Art.

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What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men, its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts, it relied on contributions from members of the public. By t...

The 19th century saw a new wave of dictionaries, many of which remain household names. Those dictionaries didn't just store words, they represented imperial ambitions, nationalist passions, religious fervor, and utopian imaginings. This volume shows how 19th-century lexicography continues to influence how we speak, write, and think in the 21st century.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

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A series which is "a monumental achievement" (Review of English Studies).

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

Most people think of the "Oxford English Dictionary" as a distinctly British product. The linguist and lexicographer, Sarah Ogilvie, combines her insider knowledge and experience with impeccable research to show rather that it is an international product in both its content and its making. This will be the first book to challenge the received view on how editors of the past treated foreign words and World Englishes in the "OED".

Archbishop Laud was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1629-1641, during which period he donated over twelve thousand manuscripts to the Bodleian Library. Only a small minority of these contain Middle English prose, but they cover a wide spectrum. Religious works include eight copies of the Wycliffite New Testament, one unrecorded by printed authorities, Wycliffite sermons, writings by Rolle and Hilton, Wimbledon and Lavynham, a uniqu...

The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. Although the story of the St. Louis is well known, the actual fates of the passengers has slipped into historical obscurity. Prompted by a former passenger's curiosity, Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller set out to discover what happened to each of the passengers. Their investigation, spanning ten...