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Biography Index Past and Present
Combining retrospective coverage with current indexing, this database offers users comprehensive, reliable information and insight about remarkable people from all periods of history and walks of life. It covers Biography Index from its first publication in 1946 through the present day and includes citations for material published as early as 1914.
Powerful Biographical Resource for All
Biography Index Past and Present is perfect for anyone searching for detailed biographical information, including students, scholars, media professionals, book clubs and researchers.
Indexed biographical subjects range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities, providing contextual information on writers, artists, statesmen, sports figures, politicians, religious leaders, actors, business people and other important individuals.
The information is reflected in citations from thousands of periodicals internationally, as well as from notable books indexed back to 1946. Unedited over time, entries on individuals accurately reflect the perspective of the era during which they were written.
Source Types Include:
- Book reviews
- Diaries
- Interviews
- Memoirs
- Obituaries
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20th anniversary lecture: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography past, present, and future
September 2024 marks twenty years since the publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [ODNB], the collective achievement of thousands of authors from around the world, revising and updating a resource that dates from 1885. Since first publication in 2004, with some 55,000 lives, the ODNB has published regular updates, adding a further 8,000 lives. These additions include 4,600 biographies of notable figures who died between 2001 and 2020. These recent lives, covering virtually every aspect of recent British history and drawing on the advice of about one thousand experts in around forty-five broad occupational areas, represent a remarkable and possibly unique, curated national biographical record. Over the past twenty years, the ODNB’s coverage of all historical periods has also been extended by releases of lives mainly organized in thematic areas, incorporating new research and perspectives on the national past.
Professor Sir David Cannadine has been general editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography since 2014, and is a specialist in the political, social, and cultural history of modern Britain and its empire, and the