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May 2006 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: May 2006
Preface to the online release, May 2006 | Introduction to the online edition | List of editors and staff
New from May 2006
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
127 lives of people who shaped British life from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
Twenty-nine reference groups
Reference groups explain the membership, aims, and influence of historically defined groups across all periods of British history.
> Full list of new reference groups
- Britain and South Africa, by Christopher Saunders [>FREE: read more]
- The general election of 1906, by Lawrence Goldman [>FREE: read more]
- 'Faire Englands joy is fled?' visual and performance arts in the 1650s, by Timothy Raylor
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the engineers of the nineteenth century, by Adam Hart-Davis [>FREE: read more]
- Heterodox and radical lawyers in England, 1500–1800, by Wilfrid Prest
- The makers of association football, by Tony Mason
- Scotland in 1406: a kingdom in crisis?, by Michael A. Penman [>FREE: read more]
- Lives of the Law, by Tom Bingham
- Portraiture in the Oxford DNB, by Catherine Eagleton, Mark Haworth-Booth, Lucy Peltz, Evelyn Silber, Frances Spalding, and Henry Summerson [>FREE: read more]
Sixteen reference lists:
New lists include leaders of the British Liberal, Conservative, and Labour parties, plus recipients of the Queen's gold medal for poetry, and Climbers of Mount Everest in the Oxford DNB.
> Full list of new reference lists
New website features
- New links from Oxford DNB biographies to the Royal Historical Society's bibliographies, bringing the number of deep links to partner web sites to almost 40,000
- additions to the dictionary's electronic index to improve place searching
- installation of an RSS ('really simple syndication') web feed to send out daily biographies, and details of new and free content
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 a 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 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 5 May 2006]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from May 2006
- 50,854 articles in which are told the life stories of 55,684 individuals
- 5,800 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
- 10,261 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,806 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
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