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October 2006 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: October 2006
Preface to the online release, October 2006 | Introduction to the online edition | List of editors and staff
New from October 2006
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
144 lives of people who shaped British life from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
Twenty 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
Five feature essays
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 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, October 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 October 2006]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from October 2006
- 50,977 articles in which are told the life stories of 55,828 individuals
- 5,828 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
- 10,275 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,851 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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