Qualla: Oxford University Press https://qualla.com/oxford-university-press en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/n/oxford-university-press-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Oxford University Press https://qualla.com/oxford-university-press Oxford University Press: Introduction https://qualla.com/oxford-university-press/ Photo credit Original uploader was user:M stone at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. James Murray needed help. It was 1879, he had just signed a contract with Oxford University Press to edit something called a New English Dictionary, and his editors expected him to finish in ten years for nine thousand pounds. The work would take forty-four years and cost three hundred and seventy-five thousand. Murray would die in 1915, thirteen years before the first edition was completed. The thing that began on his contract is now the Oxford English Dictionary, twenty volumes thick, the most thorough record of any language ever assembled. It is just one of the things Oxford University Press has produced from a corner of Walton Street, in the Jericho neighbourhood north-west of Oxford city centre, since the building opened in 1830.

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