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The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary

Professor Sarah Ogilvie · Gresham College

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About

The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary was one of the world's first crowd-sourced projects in the nineteenth century. People from all around the world sent in their local words, but no city played a more important role than London. In this lecture, Professor Sarah Ogilvie, author of The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes of the Oxford English Dictionary, tells the fascinating stories of some of the hundreds of

The talk

  1. The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary 2026-04-16 · Audio

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Sarah Ogilvie
Year
2026
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Literature and writing
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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