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May 2005 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: May 2005
Preface to the online release, May 2005 |
Introduction to the online edition |
List of editors and staff
New from May 2005
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
140 lives of people who shaped British life from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
Eight new feature articles:
- 'Ask a woman': women in high politics, 1700–2000, by K. D. Reynolds
- British entrepreneurs and brand names, by T. A. B. Corley [> FREE access: read more]
- Changing perspectives on medieval science, by J. D. North
- Eighteenth-century India, by P. J. Marshall
- Elections and electioneering in early eighteenth-century England, by W. A. Speck [> FREE access: read more]
- Music in Britain: 1905 and after, by Stephen Banfield
- Political refugees in Britain, 1826–1905, by Bernard Porter
- The rising of Owain Glyn Dŵr, by Llinos Smith
Eighteen new reference lists:
- Assistant and permanent secretaries of the Treasury (1805–2001)
- Astronomers royal (1675–2001)
- Captains of the England cricket team (1877–2001)
- Claimants to the thrones of England and Scotland in the Oxford DNB
- Directors-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation (1927–2001)
- Directors of the National Gallery (1855–2001)
- Directors of the National Portrait Gallery (1857–2001)
- Editors of the Dictionary of National Biography and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1882–2001)
- Editors of The Times (1788?–2001)
- High kings of Ireland (c.452–1172
- Holders of the Copley medal (1731–2001)
- Holders of the Faraday medal (1922–2001)
- Justiciars of England (1154/5–1263)
- Principal librarians and directors of the British Museum (1756–2001)
- Rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (5th cent.–924)
- Secretaries of state for Scotland (1885–2001)
- Sporting world champions in the Oxford DNB
- Viking and Scandinavian kings and leaders in the Oxford DNB
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
Just over 800 changes have been made within the dictionary's 63,000,000 words. Revisions include:
- corrections to known factual errors
- addition of new information (for example, family members' life dates) to keep the Oxford DNB continuously up to date
Revised biographies are identified by citation at the foot of the article screen:
- J. A. Smith, 'Brown, Jane (1900–1950)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 May 2005]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from May 2005
- 50,435 articles in which are told the life stories of 55,257 individuals
- 5710 entries on women: that is, 10 per cent of all lives and 28 per cent of first-time entrants to the dictionary across all periods
- 10,146 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,661 contributors (including contributors to the first DNB where they remain as signatories of revised entries)
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (ONLINE EDITION)
ISSN 1747-1001 ISBN 0-19-861412-8
> Oxford DNB home page
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