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Oxford University wins Queen's Anniversary Prize for the Oxford DNBPress releaseThe University of Oxford is one of 20 winners of the seventh round of The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education, announced today, Thursday 15 November, at St James's Palace by the Founder and Chairman of The Royal Anniversary Trust, Mr Robin Gill CVO. The University receives the prize for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a research and publishing project of the University and Oxford University Press (OUP). The Oxford DNB is a collection of more than 56,000 biographies of men and women who have shaped British life from the 4th century BC to the 21st century. The Queen's Anniversary Prizes are awarded biennially to institutions of higher and further education for work of exceptional quality that brings benefit to the wider community—both nationally and internationally—as well as to the institution itself and its student body. The Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Dr John Hood, comments ''The Oxford DNB project has been an outstanding collaboration between the University's academic researchers and Oxford University Press—itself an integral department of the University—to bring together a worldwide community of scholars specializing in all aspects of the British past.'' The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was compiled by 10,000 specialist authors worldwide. Their work was co-ordinated by a team of research staff of the University's Faculty of Modern History (aided by research funding from the British Academy) in a project planned, co-funded, and published by Oxford University Press. The Oxford DNB was published, in print and online, in 2004 and was edited by two professors of history at the University, the late Colin Matthew (editor from 1992 to 1999) and Sir Brian Harrison (2000-04). Since 2004 the Dictionary has been edited by Dr Lawrence Goldman, a historian at St Peter's College, Oxford, who—along with University research staff and OUP editors—is responsible for three annual updates to the Oxford DNB's online edition (www.oxforddnb.com). Dr Lawrence Goldman, Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, comments, ''The Oxford DNB's success in this round of the Queen's Anniversary Prize is due entirely to the commitment and creativity of the Dictionary's 10,000 contributors: from them comes a story of British life which, thanks to readable biographies and online accessibility, is stimulating interest and new research in academic institutions, public libraries, schools, and in the homes of anyone interested in Britain's past.'' Notes to Editors:-
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