National Biography

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The Dictionary of National Biography is the record of lives who have shaped British history. Free online via UK public libraries. From Oxford University & OUP.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2009.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    9. sij

    To celebrate the new year, we have added over 200 British lives to our January ODNB update, including glam rocker David Bowie, vocalist George Michael, actor Alan Rickman, and architect Zaha Hadid

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  2. prije 14 sati

    This week’s podcast features hairdresser and businessman Vidal Sassoon

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  3. 2. velj

    “The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” James Joyce, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, was born in 1882. Today also marks the publication anniversary of Joyce's 'Ulysses'.

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  4. 1. velj

    Discover the life of Dame Sarah Swift, nurse and founder of the Royal College of Nursing. Never truly retiring from her work, Swift experienced a career in nursing that spanned over six decades.

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  5. 31. sij

    The life of Margaret Rhodes, aristocrat, courtier, and first cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, has been added to the update. Learn more about the former Woman of the Bedchamber:

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  6. 30. sij

    Discover the life of racing driver Gwenda Stewart, regarded as one of the greatest woman drivers of her time. As a notable WWI ambulance driver, Stewart went on to break records for racing speeds.

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  7. 29. sij

    in 1737, author and revolutionary Thomas Paine was born. Author of influential pamphlets 'Common Sense' and 'The Age of Reason', Paine is now accepted as a leading figure in the age of revolutions.

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    28. sij

    Nicholas Parsons, 10 October 1923 - 28 January 2020 Our friend and comedy inspiration has died, aged 96.

    Comedy actor and quiz show presenter Nicholas Parsons raises a straw boater in front of a bright red background
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    28. sij

    My colleague Mark Curthoy's at the Oxford Humanities Thesis Fair – "the value for of using the advanced search functionality of ODNB for thesis topics was apparent in conversations with researchers. You can create your own dataset."

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  10. 28. sij

    Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down', 'Shardik', and 'The Plague Dogs', is one of over 200 notable British lives added to the update. Discover the life of the writer:

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    27. sij

    Today marks 75 years since prisoners were liberated from Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. After 1,689 days & 1 million+ dead, the murder & pain came to an end. To commemorate here some of the most poignant photos of the victims of Nazi violence in colour.

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  12. 27. sij

    "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." in 1832, mathematician, photographer, and author of the 'Alice in Wonderland' series, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was born.

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  13. 25. sij

    in 1533, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn married in a secret ceremony at Whitehall Palace. The second consort of Henry VIII's infamous six, Anne Boleyn remained Queen of England for three years before her beheading in 1536.

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    The Jan 2020 update includes biogra[hies for Cecil Parkinson, Jim Prior, Jo Cox, Asa Briggs and many more. Check them out.

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  15. 24. sij

    Meet Mavis Batey, WWII code-breaker and garden historian. Playing a critical role in the breaking of the Italian and Abwehr Enigmas at , Batey brought her skills for coded language to bear on the English landscape garden

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  16. 23. sij

    Playwright Peter Shaffer, two-time winner for plays 'Equus' and 'Amadeus', is one of over 200 extraordinary British lives added to the update. Learn more about the life of the knighted playwright:

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  17. 22. sij

    Today we remember actor Terry Jones, one of the founding members of Monty Python.

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  18. 22. sij

    "Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." Leading Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, was born in 1788.

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  19. 21. sij

    Discover the life of child writer Daisy Ashford, best known for her novella, 'The Young Visitors', which details the upper class society of late nineteenth-century England. Ashford published the novella when she was nine years old.

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  20. 20. sij

    This week’s podcast features the story of the Salem Witches and their accusers - participants in a witch panic that gripped Essex, Massachusetts, in 1692

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  21. 19. sij

    Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, better known as singer George Michael, is one of the 200+ lives added to the update this month. Discover the life of the Wham! singer:

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