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JANUARY 9, 2025

What’s New: January 2025

Welcome to the 118th update of the Oxford DNB, featuring the lives of operatic and theatre singers. This update adds biographies of seven women and men, accompanied by one new portrait likeness. The update also includes 82 updated Reference Lists, and identifies over 1,500 biographical anniversaries in 2025.

JANUARY 8, 2025

Biographical anniversaries in 2025

Meet influential individuals with milestone anniversaries in 2025, marking significant life events ranging from 100 to 400 years ago. Browse our collection of biographies and learn more about each person's life and legacy …

DECEMBER 12, 2024

What's New: December 2024

Welcome to the 117th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds seven twentieth-century lives, including three émigrés from continental Europe, two businesspeople, a mosaicist, and a figure from London’s criminal underworld. The update also includes one updated article and six new portrait likenesses

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What's New: November 2024

Welcome to the 116th update of the Oxford DNB, which has a special focus on lives with a global dimension, literary lives, and medical lives. This update adds twelve new biographies, spanning four centuries, and one reference group article, and also includes four revisited biographies. There are also three additional portrait likenesses.

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What’s New: October 2024

Welcome to the 115th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds biographies of four people of African or part-African descent in Britain and its empire, accompanied by a reference group article and seven new portrait likenesses. 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

20th Anniversary of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

To celebrate the ODNB turning 20, we’re sharing thirty influential lives from the British Isles spanning nearly two millennia.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

What’s New: September 2024

Welcome to the 114th update of the Oxford DNB, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dictionary’s first publication in September 2004.

AUGUST 8, 2024

What’s New: August 2024

Welcome to the 113th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds sixteen new articles and seven portrait likenesses. Entries in this release have a special focus on the lives of early modern noblewomen in Britain.

JULY 11, 2024

What's New: July 2024

Welcome to the 112th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds eleven new articles, containing nine new lives, with a special focus on women and needlework and women in business.

JUNE 13, 2024

What's New: June 2024

Welcome to the 111th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds sixteen new articles, containing sixteen new lives, with a special focus on regions and localities in Britain. 

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