It was an enormous privilege to be given the task of Project Editor for this equally enormous new encyclopedia. My small, hand-picked Oxford-based team spent five years with it, supported by Elsevier and our marvellous editorial board of art specialists. There is nothing I love more than a challenge – and this certainly qualified. When both Macmillan and Encyclopedia Britannica bought it on completion, we all knew it had been time extremely well spent.
Production Team
Project Editor: Valerie Mendes
Picture Research: Anne-Marie Ehrlich, Christine Forth, Diana Morris
Additional Research: Mel Cooper
Production: Clive Sparling
Design: Sarah Tyzack, Trevor Vincent
Art Editor: Jerry Burman
Text Editors: Janet Graham, Robert Peberdy
Index: Sandra Raphael
