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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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John Murray
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Publisher with a longer and more distinguished literary record than any other in Britain. The firm was founded in 1768 in Fleet Street by John Murray (1745–93); it has been run ever since by direct descendants, each called John Murray (the present chairman is John Murray VII). Byron was the turning point. The success of *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage enabled John Murray II to buy the 18C house in Albemarle Street (London W1) from which successive John Murrays have contrived to keep abreast of the times – as in the remarkable feat of publishing *Darwin's Origin of Species and Samuel *Smiles' Self-Help on the same day in 1859, or a century later in launching the first of the television book-of-the-series successes, Kenneth Clark's *Civilisation (1969).
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