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This month’s update adds nine new articles, many with a focus on lives with a global dimension, including: the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman traveller to Rome, Master Gregory; the Norwich cloth merchant Thomas Baret whose goods found markets throughout Europe; the Scottish surgeon Charles Maitland, who observed the practice of inoculation in the Ottoman Empire; the sculptor Francis Williamson, whose statues of Queen Victoria were unveiled across the British Empire; the international banker Sir Clinton Dawkins; and the artist Christopher Ironside, best-known for his designs for Britain’s decimal coinage, and also for the new coinages of many of the Commonwealth's independent states. Read the introduction here.

This month’s update adds four new articles on women in the advertising industry, with an introduction by Lizzie Broadbent, and four articles on women active in the fields of art and architecture. The lives comprise: Margaret Havinden (and her sister Florence Sangster), Jean Lyon, Ethel Wilson, and Ethel Wood, all of whom held leading positions in advertising; the artists Marian Collier, Lucy Kemp-Welch, and Winifred Knights; and the architect Rosemary Stjernstedt.  Read the introduction here.

This month’s update adds the lives of eight members of the Order of Companions of Honour, completing ODNB’s coverage of the early members of the order, created in 1917. The new entrants comprise the officers’ charity organizer, Lady Lansdowne, the labour leaders James Seddon and James Parker, the civil servants Samuel Provis and William Napier Bruce, the headmaster Herbert James, the surgeon Florence Barrett, and the Baptist minister John Charles Carlile. Read the introduction here.