# The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Sarah Ogilvie
- Year: 2026
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/dictionary-city)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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

## Lectures

1. [The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/dictionary-city/53f9f6222d45) (Audio)