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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bradshaw
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The bible of the travelling classes in the great days of the railway. The first Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide, already in its characteristic yellow paper cover, appeared in 1839, published by George Bradshaw (1801–53), a Manchester engraver. Publication continued until May 1961, each issue giving complete railway timetables for the whole country. So much information in so little space prompted an aphorism from Sherlock Holmes: 'The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited.'
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