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Adding logos and buttons

Librarians or site administrators who wish to provide a convenient short cut into the Oxford DNB are invited to use the buttons or Quick Search boxes, or the "where I live" box, below. You can copy the HTML and add it to your own web page, giving readers of that page instant access to the Oxford DNB. For example, a librarian might add the search box to a page of describing reference databases.

Note that these buttons and search boxes can only be used by a reader who has a subscription. It should therefore only be used in institutional or similar environments.

Quick link buttons

For these buttons

Biographies and portraits of
famous, infamous, and fascinating
people from every period of British history


copy one of these


<table> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #fff;"> <tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/searchlogo.gif" width="60" height="61" border="0"/></a></td><td align="left" valign="middle" style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 95%;color: #666;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px;"><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed" STYLE="text-decoration: none">Biographies and portraits of<br /> famous, infamous, and fascinating<br />people from every period of British history</a></span><br /> </td></tr> </table>

<a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/searchlogo.gif" width="60" height="61" border="0"/></a>

<a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/top-logo.gif" width="230" height="85" border="0"/></a>

Quick search: people or text

For this search box:

Search Oxford DNB

copy this HTML:


<form action="http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/quick/" method="get" name="quickSearchForm" target="_top" id="quickSearchForm"> <input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="quicksearch" /> <input type="hidden" name="docPos" value="1" /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #fff;"> <tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/searchlogo.gif" border="0" width="60" height="61" /></a></td> <td align="left" valign="middle" style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 95%;color: #666;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px;">Search Oxford DNB</span><br /> <select name="searchTarget" class="formfield" style="vertical-align:middle"> <option selected="selected" value="people">person</option> <option value="fulltext">full text</option> </select> <input name="simpleName" class="formfield" size="20" style="vertical-align:middle"/> <input name="imageField" type="image" src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/top-searchgo.gif" alt="Go" value="Go" style="vertical-align:middle"/></td></tr> </table> </form>

Quick search: people only

For this search box:

Find a biography

copy this HTML:


<form action="http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/quick/" method="get" name="quickSearchForm" target="_top" id="quickSearchForm" > <input type="hidden" name="quicksearch" value="quicksearch" /> <input type="hidden" name="docPos" value="1" /> <input type="hidden" name="searchTarget" value="people" /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #fff;"> <tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/searchlogo.gif" width="60" height="61" border="0"/></a></td> <td align="left" valign="middle" style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 95%;color: #666;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px;">Find a biography</span><br /> <input name="simpleName" class="formfield" size="20" style="vertical-align:middle"/> <input name="imageField" type="image" src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/top-searchgo.gif" alt="Go" value="Go" style="vertical-align:middle"/></td></tr> </table> </form>

Who was born where I live?

This box runs a search for people in the Oxford DNB born in a particular place (county, city, borough, town, or village). The example that follows will run a search for people born in Penzance.

Who was born where I live?
Find out with Oxford DNB


To copy this box

  • copy the following HTML and paste it into your own web page,
  • replacing the asterisks (*****) with the placename you would like to search on.
  • Note that if your placename contains more than one word, separate those words with "+", and not spaces: Newcastle+upon+Tyne.
  • If you also want to change the wording so it includes your own town's name, please do - just replace the words "where I live" with "in Norwich" (for example).

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #fff;"> <tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed"><img src="http://www.oxforddnb.com/images/searchlogo.gif" width="60" height="61" border="0"/></a></td><td align="left" valign="middle" style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 95%;color: #666;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px;">Who was born where I live?<BR /><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/articles/?lifeEventModifier=birth&place=*****">Find out with Oxford DNB</a></span><br /> </td></tr> </table>
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