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October 2005 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: October 2005
Preface to the online release, October 2005 |
Introduction to the online edition |
List of editors and staff
New from October 2005
Biographies | Themes | Website features | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
98 lives of people who shaped British life from the ninth to the twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
30 reference groups: new in October 2005
Reference groups—new in October 2005—explain the membership, aims, and influence of historically defined groups across all periods of British history.
> Full list of new reference groups
Seven new feature articles:
- The active life: the explorer as biographical subject, by Felix Driver
- Children and childhood in the Oxford DNB, by Philip Carter and Henry Summerson [> FREE access: read more]
- Early modern women: the rediscovery of public and private life, by Vivienne Larminie
- The Gunpowder Plot, by Mark Nicholls
- Imperial lives in the Oxford DNB, by Alex May
- Trafalgar, Nelson, and the national memory, by Michael Duffy [> FREE access: read more]
- Trafalgar Square in history, by Philip Carter
51 new reference lists:
Fifty-one lists cover the governors and post-independence heads of state of the forty-seven countries which made up the British empire. There are also guides to the governing officers of Gibraltar, Tangier, Gascony, and Calais included in the Oxford DNB.
> Full list of new reference lists
New website features
Including:
- new colour versions of 750 portrait images (previously reproduced in black and white)
- new online links from almost six thousand biographies to relevant material in the Royal Historical Society's Bibliographies of British History
- three new printable help texts
- new in themes: filter themes by field of interest, such as armed forces, arts, sports, religion, science
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
Just over 500 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, October 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 October 2005]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from October 2005
- 50,532 articles in which are told the life stories of 55,355 individuals
- 5745 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
- 10,176 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,686 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
> Introduction and contents
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