On the open shelves

Alongside our three continually changing selections:

• Every day: a new Life of the Day (you can always see the last few days' lives)
• Twice a month: a new episode in our biography podcast
• Every month: our online magazine includes topical features and more biographies

Don't forget: if you like what you see, you can access the complete Oxford DNB for free via nearly all UK public libraries and colleges and universities worldwide. Just ask your librarian for details.

Ideas for using the ODNB

• Learning resources: in schools and colleges
• Library resources: for local history and projects

Maps

• Brewers of Britain
• Victoria Cross holders
• Museum and gallery founders
• Engineering greats

Galleries

• Heads up!
• Millais: circles and sitters
• Lives of Wales
• Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Hans Holbein: the Tudor court
• Hogarth's people: civility and crime
• Britain's greatest football team?
• Ashes cricket: England vs. Australia

Feature essays

(full list for subscribers in the Themes area of the online ODNB)

in chronological order

• Myths, legends, and mysteries
• The rise and fall of Roman Britain
• School founders in medieval England
• Lives in service: servants in the Oxford DNB
• Medieval science
• Children and childhood in the Oxford DNB
• Berwick upon Tweed: a town of two nations
• Only one Man is an island
• Lives of the law
• Adrian IV: England's only pope
• Liverpool at 800
• Portraiture in the Oxford DNB
• Precision engineering
• Chaucer and medieval literature
• Medical lives
• Faith or religion?
• Scotland in 1406: a kingdom in crisis?
• Rebel, rebel: Owain Glyn Dwr
• The Gunpowder Plot
• Page and stage in Jacobean England
• Early modern women
• Halley's comet and pioneer astronomy
• America in the Oxford DNB
• Makers of the British empire
• The great fire of London
• Women and politics
• Vote whig! Elections in eighteenth-century England
• Entrepreneurs and brand names
• Nabobs and nawabs: Hanoverian India
• The active life: explorers in the Oxford DNB
• England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707)
• Britons in South-East Asia
• Monarchy and charity
• Slavery and abolition 1
• Slavery and abolition 2
• Women and religion
• Britain and South Africa
• Beyond the Industrial Revolution: from Trevithick …
• … to Brunel and Telford
• Nelson: creating a hero
• Trafalgar Square in history
• Refugees and refuge: exiles in Victorian Britain
• Remembering Disraeli
• Crimea and the Light Brigade
• Call for authors, 1882
• Road to Suez
• The makers of association football
• Music in Britain
• Lloyd George and the Liberals
• Appeasement: Chamberlain vs Churchill
• Life on the Home Front, 1939–1945
• India and Pakistan: partition and independence
• The general election of 1964: forty years on

Reference groups

(full list for subscribers in the Themes area of the online ODNB)

• Cabal, clique, and coterie: groups in the Oxford DNB
• Enforcers of Magna Carta (act. 1215–1216)
• The Pilgrim Fathers (act. 1620)
• Samuel Johnson's Literary Club (act. 1764–1784)
• Guilty men (act. 1940)
• The Goons (act. 1951–1960)

Reference lists

(full list for subscribers in the Themes area of the online ODNB)

• Chancellors of the exchequer (1559–2003)
• Poets laureate (1668–2003)
• Signatories of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776)
• Governors-general and viceroys of India (1773–1950)
• Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• Nobel prize-winners in the Oxford DNB