About the online edition
The online edition of Who's Who offers unrivalled online access to unique autobiographical statements written by over 120,000 people who have made their mark on British life.
Following the model of the multi-award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the online edition of Who's Who and Who Was Who is custom-built for biographical research. It is tailored above all to one goal: to show you exactly what you want to find, quickly, accurately, and without fuss.
- Simple to use, but clever behind the scenes, search takes you only to the people you want to find out about.
- The combination of faceted search and tabbed results screens means that running even complex searches is as easy as clicking on links.
- For the power user, advanced search is flexible and wide-ranging: find, for example, all the women writers who were educated at Exeter University. Or all the politicians who like hill-walking. Or all the QCs who are still in their thirties. The combinations are endless.
- Refine and re-order search results and browse lists, and search within results, on the basis of a wide range of criteria including gender, occupation, and birth or death date.
- Browse not just the people of Who's Who, but their clubs and their recreations too. Who shares your hobby?
- Switch in a moment from searching just within the 35,000 records in Who's Who, or adding in the 90,000 records from Who Was Who
- Over 10,000 direct reciprocal links mean that users can compare and contrast what people such as Dame Barbara Cartland or Anthony Blunt wrote about themselves in Who Was Who with their biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- For the first time Who's Who will be updated during the year – if subjects die, their death dates will be added
- Plus a host of other benefits are available including print-friendly format, the ability to email entries, and accurate citations.