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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amazing where researching the #OED and its contributors can take you. I wasn’t expecting to find myself reading a Doctor Who novel in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (yes, it’s a novel with a lot of crossover, including the Cthulhu Mythos as well as Conan Doyle) investigate a library…

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Percy James Philip (1886–1956) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have never forgotten reading these words in 2002, and they are much in my mind today. Thinking of you, @awillett.bsky.social.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Richard Francis Weymouth (1822–1902) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My book ‘The Making of the OED’ was published on 25 Aug 2016, so I have missed the exact 10th anniversary; but I don’t care. I am going to indulge myself by quoting from the wonderful series of reviews I was lucky enough to get ten years ago. (Yes, I kept a file of them, of course I did.) 1/

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Another pair of #OEDMakers (though in a very modest way): James Edgerton Learned (1839–1902) and Dwight Whitney Learned (1848–1943). Here’s a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Emily Frances Saunders (1826–1910) and Grace Ellen Saunders (1834–1915) are my latest #OEDMakers, and here is a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ellen Margaret Creak (1853–1937) and Thomas Gasquoine Creak (1860–1922) are my latest #OEDMakers, and here is a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here’s a piece about a whole group of #OEDMakers: namely the musicians. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Cornelis Stoffel (1845–1908) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after another gap (apologies, life continues busy)—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Frederick John Sweatman (1873–1936) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after a bit of a gap, for which I can only plead various distractions—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

One of those unarguable Johnson definitions.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

James Murray Named New UK Health Secretary? Well, I wasn't expecting that.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm strangely delighted to have discovered that Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold Prinz von Hohenzollern plays sax in his own band: www.royal-groovin.de/

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

NYC opened a pop up The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room displaying 3.5 million pages of released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed into 3,437 bound volumes. Thank you artists 🏆

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Carl Wilhelm Ernst (1845–1919) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You may love your mobile, and think landlines are quaint and antiquated, but for all sorts of reasons they're still needed by many. Please consider signing. Indeed, please sign. c.org/LqYqxP4nHj

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Time to autotrombate again: here's me telling you almost all almost anyone could want to know about the history of the OED. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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The history of the OED: do we know our Onions (sic)?

Podcast Episode · Lexipoddery: the OED podcast · 29 April · 39min

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I mourn the passing of Desmond Morris, anthropologist and artist. He became a great enthusiast for the #OED while living in 78 Banbury Road, the home for many years of the Dictionary’s first Editor, James Murray. I count myself privileged to have known him.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#OnThisDay 98 years ago the final fascicle (Wise to Wyzen) of the #OED was published. Not long now until the centenary....

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Edgar Neels Martin (1894–1966) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Richard Stephen Charnock (1820–1905) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm excited. And if you have a ticket (there may just be a few left) you will be too. Tonight, an evening of amazing drama, and some of the best music written by one of England's finest composers. Oh, and Elgar conducted this choir in this very piece. Come. www.ticketsoxford.com/events/elgar...

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Elgar: The Kingdom | Tickets Oxford

After our performance of The Apostles in March 2025, the Oxford Bach Choir returns with the second part of our two year Elgar Project with this performance

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Charles Bridges Mount (1827–1916) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Worth a repost. She was a very special lady.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#OnThisDay in 1986, my partner Robin and I decided that the thing we had—having met in January—was a Very Good Thing. And, 40 years later, the Very Good Thing is still going. Please be happy with us.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Daniel Silvan Evans (1818–1903) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Jonathan Eastwood (1823–64) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Ernest Weekley (1865–1954) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

orenz Morsbach (1850–1945) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

George Washington Salisbury Friedrichsen (né Cohen) (1886–1979) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I just wished my colleagues ‘Happy First Fascicle Day’ (and urged them to eat a selection of cake et al.)—for #OnThisDay in 1884 the first fascicle of the #OED was published. Do please concelebrate in your own way.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

William Moore (1838/9–1907) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Henry Fillmer Rutter (1860–1936) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Alexander Kemlo (1839–1913) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Charles George Crump (1862–1935) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’ve never written about an #OEDMaker on the basis of a single piece of evidence before, but I feel that the letter which the 17-year-old Leonard Mayall (1864–1950) wrote to James Murray is enough to make him one, albeit in a small way. He was born in the Lancashire cotton-spinning town of…

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Murray Scriptorium / Letters

Murray Scriptorium

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, everyone. Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I haven’t yet written about the prodigious #OEDMaker William Douglas (1842–1910), not least because his troubled story is told at some length in Sarah Ogilvie’s The Dictionary People (a fine piece of detective work on her part). But I just came across a nice snippet about him, which…

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas, everyone. Cornelius Birch Bagster (1815–93) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Moss Side, Manchester, 1970, photo by Martin Parr. My nan lived there at the time, but thankfully not in this street.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Not that it isn't a pretty good word, this year or any year.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

William Ward Wight (1849–1931) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

As a holding operation until I can finish my own next #OEDMaker article (December gets busy, doesn't it?): the latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes a clutch of new articles on lexicographers and…

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If you want to know what the likes of Benjamin Britten, Michael Powell & Ronald Searle thought of the movies of 1951, and surely everyone does, here’s the page that Christie quote comes from … (2/2)

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