Suffering from Wikipedia withdrawal?
Patrick Kingsley has a stack of volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Who's Who and is ready to answer your questions
12.13pm: If you're wondering why this is all taking so long, it's because this research lark is a nightmare.
There are no hyperlinks, no searchboxes - and what the devil's an "index"? Bloody unhelpful, that's what.
Moving all those encyclopaedias was a complete fiasco, by the way.
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