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On This Day December 10, 1909

The Times carries a Christmas advertisment for a reduced-size, cut-price version of the Dictionary of National Biography

History - whether of politics, war, the arts, science, literature, sport, travel, society, and of every other department of human life and national achievement - is in effect the synthesis of the life of individuals. It is composite biography. To analyse it, to get at the exact facts which make history, the need is always arising to have individual knowledge of this or that notable man or woman — their exact action or opinion or achievement. It is the same need which makes a dictionary indispensable in order to compare words, to find their origin and exact meaning.

What a lexicon is to a language, The Dictionary of National Biography is to the whole range of British life. It is the compendium of over 30,000…

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