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January 2006 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: January 2006
Preface to the online release, January 2006 |
Introduction to the online edition |
List of editors and staff
New from January 2006
Biographies | Themes | Website features | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
202 lives of people who shaped British life and who died in 2002:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
Four new feature essays;
- The monarchy and charity, by Frank Prochaska [> FREE: read more]
- Scientific instrument makers, by Anita McConnell
- Chaucer and the growth of vernacular literature, by Douglas Gray [> FREE: read more]
- Reclaiming the bard of liberty: Iolo Morganwg, by Geraint H. Jenkins
New website features
- 10,000 new links from Oxford DNB biographies to the personal records in the National Portrait Gallery's online catalogue: use the link at the left of the Oxford DNB biography to go directly to the NPG's free, illustrated catalogue entry for that person
- new browser customization features
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
Just over 280 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, January 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 6 January 2006]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from January 2006
- 50,731 articles in which are told the life stories of 55,557 individuals
- 5787 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
- 10,247 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,763 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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