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Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective

By Keith Thomas

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0521671183, 9780521671187, 9780511130373
Open Library ID
OL7751220M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
485 kB (496315 bytes)
Pages
60\62
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of the original Dictionary of National Biography, the celebrated historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of it. The author, who has been chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Oxford DNB since its inception, writes with intimate knowledge of the project.

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