The ambitious project was announced at a 1965 me
The ambitious project was announced at a 1965 meeting of the Philological Society by its originator, Michael Samuels.[7] Work on the HTE started in the same year.[citation needed]
In 2017, the University of Glasgow was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for the HTE.[Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for the HTE.[citation needed]
A second edition of the online HTE is currently in progress and is expected to be launched in late 2020.[8] Work is released on the freely-available HTE website when available. [8]
On 22 October 2009, after 44 years of work, version 1.0 of the HTE was published by Oxford University Press in a two-volume slipcased set as the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED).[9] The two hardcover volumes together total nearly 4,500 pages.