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May 2007 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: May 2007
Preface to the online release, May 2007 | Introduction to the online edition | List of editors and staff
New from May 2007
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
73 lives of people who shaped British life from the eleventh to twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
Fifty 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
Eight new reference lists
- Chiefs of the general staff and the Imperial General Staff (1904–2003)
- Colonial administrators of Adeh (1839–1967)
- Colonial administrators of Hong Kong (1841–1997)
- Colonial administrators of Pakistan (1917–1948)
- Holders of the Royal Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for the promotion of architecture (1848–2003)
- Holders of the Wollaston medal (1831–2003)
- Labour Representation Committee members of the British parliament elected in 1906
- Members of the Westminster assembly and Scottish commissioners (1643–1652)
Two new feature essays
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
Just over 450 changes have been made within the dictionary's 64,000,000 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 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 June 2007]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from May 2007
- 51,238 articles in which are told the life stories of 56,103 individuals
- 5,879 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
- 10,361 subjects with a portrait image
- 12,938 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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