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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Oxfam
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(Oxford) Britain's largest aid agency, founded in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. This was a response by a group of people in Oxford to the distress caused in German-occupied countries by the British trade embargo. Aid was sent first to the starving in Greece in 1943. The name Oxfam, informally used for many years, was officially adopted in 1965. An influential initiative was the opening of an Oxfam shop in 1948 in Oxford's Broad Street (it is still there, the first of more than 500). Immediate aid to disaster areas remained the most widely publicized part of the work, but over the years a different priority gained in importance – long-term development projects to tackle the roots of poverty. Oxfam is now actively involved in a large number of Third World countries.
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