Dictionary of national biography

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Name (Latin)
Dictionary of national biography
Other forms of name
DNB
Oxford DNB
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 179269842
Wikidata: Q1210343
Library of congress: no2003030610
OCoLC: oca06009746
Sources of Information
  • Musical lives, 2002:p. v, etc. (Dictionary of national biography; DNB)
  • LC in OCLC, Mar. 27, 2003(hdg.: Dicationary of national biography; usage: Dictionary of national biography)
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford Dictionary of national biography, WWW site, Mar. 27, 2003:about Oxford DNB/history of the DNB (the DNB began publication at Christmas 1884; published quarterly and alphabetically until William Zuylestein was reached in 1901; during First World War the copyright was given to OUP, which published supplements through 1990, just before work started on re-creating the entire dictionary as the Oxford DNB, projected to be published in September, 2004)
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Wikipedia description:

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

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