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May 2008 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: May 2008
Preface to the online release, May 2008 | Introduction to the online edition | List of editors and staff
New from May 2008
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
91 lives of people who shaped British life from the first to the twentieth centuries:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
45 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
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
Just under 350 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 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 June 2008]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from May 2008
- 51,614 articles in which are told the life stories of 56,521 individuals
- 5,950 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
- 10,447 subjects with a portrait image
- 13,065 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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