Dictionary of National Biography
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The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) aims to provide details of significant British lives, and as such is significant both as a resource for historians and as a repository of historical writing. The project itself has passed through various stages over time. The original dictionary was published by George Smith as a 63–volume set between 1885 and 1901. Following its acquisition by Oxford University Press this was updated with a series of supplementary volumes throughout the 20th century. The current online version was launched in 2004 as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and continues to be regularly updated.
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- Website:
- http://www.oxforddnb.com/
- Historians:
- Firth, Charles Harding
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray
Pollard, Albert Frederick
Tout, Thomas Frederick - Themes:
- Prosopography
Other Articles
- A. F. Pollard, 'Sir Sidney Lee and the 'Dictionary of National Biography', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 4 (1926/1927), 1–13
Lawrence Goldman, 'Focus on the Oxford DNB: a monument to the Victorian age: continuity and discontinuity in the Dictionaries of National Biography', Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 1 (2006), 111–32.
