British telephone directories dating back to 1880 are being put online. The service is being run by Ancestry.co.uk, whose managing director, Josh Hanna, gushes:
”They contain very particular details about the lives of the famous, and the infamous, including the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Bram Stoker.”
Erm, aren’t those "very particular details" simply the address and telephone number of subscribers, Josh? Hardly earth-shattering revelations, although not without a certain interest, I do concede. Stuart Jeffries, in today’s Guardian, has a humorous take on the news.
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