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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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A demonstration of the online edition
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In print, the 60 volumes of the Oxford DNB …
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In print, the 60 volumes of the Oxford DNB …
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In print, the 60 volumes of the Oxford DNB …
… take up 11 feet of shelf space
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Online, every biography fits on your desktop.
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Online, every biography fits on your desktop. From Aaron …
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past 150 people called Brown,
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the Joneses,
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and 55,000 others … all the way to the Zuylesteins.
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Finding the biography you want is a snap.
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Quick Search is on every page.
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
• full name Beatrice Webb
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
• full name Beatrice Webb
• title earl of Essex
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
• full name Beatrice Webb
• title earl of Essex
• pseudonym Lewis Carroll
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
• full name Beatrice Webb
• title earl of Essex
• pseudonym Lewis Carroll
• stage name Sid Vicious
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Using it, you will find people whether you search by
• surname Jenkinson
• full name Beatrice Webb
• title earl of Essex
• pseudonym Lewis Carroll
• stage name Sid Vicious
Whatever name you know: Quick Search finds the biography.
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At the heart of the dictionary, the biographies: readable …
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… authoritative and scholarly.
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the original DNB article (if there was one),
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the original DNB article (if there was one),
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links to external resources,
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links to external resources,
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and cross-references to other biographies.
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and cross-references to other biographies.
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The Oxford DNB has a host of advanced search options.
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Here’s a search for …
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travellers and explorers …
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… who were women …
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… and lived in the nineteenth century.
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(We have 91 of them.)
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Text search through our 60 million words is simple and powerful -
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- and works well with results ordered chronologically.
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Our Themes section is a reference companion for the dictionary.
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Lists of office-holders link through to the biographies;
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other themes introduce groups and factions from British history.
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