Oxford dictionnary of national biography

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Oxford dictionnary of national biography: Over 63, biographies, 75 million words,

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Oxford dictionnary of national biography: The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)

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Oxford dictionnary of national biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

In Chisholm, Hugh ed. Cambridge University Press. The DNB is described in the last paragraph of this article. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN Boston: G. Hall, Journal of Cultural Analytics. Archived from the original on 7 March Retrieved 6 March From the Earliest Times to the Year Hardback ". Archived from the original on 22 July London Review of Books.

Archived from the original on 2 July The Observer. Archived from the original on 21 August The Historical Journal. S2CID Archived from the original on 22 February Regular updates have since have added a further biographies and thematic essays. Roughly half of these new biographies are of people from the very recent past who died all people in the ODNB are deceased in the 21 st century.

Updates also revise existing biographies in response to new research.