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October 2009 update
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Online edition
Edited by Lawrence Goldman
Current version: October 2009
Preface to the online release, October 2009 | Introduction to the online edition | List of editors and staff
New from October 2009
Biographies | Themes | Corrections and additions | Numbers
New biographies
96 lives of people who shaped British life and died in or before 2005:
> Full list of new lives
New themes
10 reference groups and reference lists
Reference groups explain the membership, aims, and influence of historically defined groups across all periods of British history. Reference lists provide information on holders of prominent offices or honours in the past.
Full list of new Themes
Corrections and additions to existing biographies
721 changes have been made within the dictionary's 65,000,000 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 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123, accessed 26 November 2009]
Previous versions of amended biographies are also available online.
The Oxford DNB from October 2009
- 52,097 articles in which are told the life stories of 57,045 individuals
- 6,051 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
- 10,563 subjects with a portrait image
- 13,254 contributors (including contributors to the first DNB where they remain as signatories of revised entries)
- 462 Theme articles (reference lists, groups and feature essays)
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (ONLINE EDITION)
ISSN 1747-1001 ISBN 0-19-861412-8
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