ODNB links and partnerships
The ODNB has extensive linking programmes with research projects, heritage institutions, and media providers to offer readers convenient further material to contextualise and understand the lives covered in our articles. These ‘external links’ are located at the foot of the left-hand navigation column in ODNB articles.
National Archives. Landing pages listing documents held in the National Archives created by biographical subject.
Bibliography of British and Irish History. Comprehensive database of books and articles about British and Irish history (subscription required).
National Portrait Gallery. Sitter pages listing portraits of biographical subjects.
Art UK. Artist pages with links to portraits by biographical subjects.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
BBC archives film and sound footage held by the BBC
BBC, Desert Island Discs recordings of programmes featuring ODNB biographees
BBC, In Our Time recordings of programmes featuring ODNB biographees
British Academy Memoirs. Links to biographies of British Academy fellows.
British History Online. Links to relevant digitised archival collections.
British Library Sound and Moving Image Catalogue. Links to audio and film content under the categories Sound, Architecture, Art, Classical, Early Spoken Word, Science, and Theatre (not currently working due to BL cyber attack)
British Library, Discovery Literature. Biographical stubs on authors. (not currently working due to BL cyber attack)
British Pathé. (not currently working but will be reloaded soon)
Churchill Archive. (not currently working but will be reloaded soon)
Clergy of the Church of England. (not currently working but will be reloaded soon)
Commonwealth War Graves. Stubs locating burial places for biographical subjects.
Darwin Correspondence. Biographical stubs with links to letters from the Darwin Correspondence.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Biographical entries on Canadian subjects.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Biographical entries on New Zealand subjects.
Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Biographical entries on Ulster subjects.
Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Biographical entries on Welsh subjects.
Early Modern Letters Online. A union catalogue of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century correspondence with links to letters written to, from, or mentioning biographical subjects.
English Heritage, Blue Plaques. Landing pages for plaques commemorating biographical subjects.
Hansard. Links to speeches made by Members of Parliament.
History of Parliament. Biographies of Members of Parliament.
IHR Making History. Biographical stubs on historians.
Legacies of British Slave Ownership. Records derived from compensation paid to owners of enslaved people on emancipation.
National Library of Wales. Links to records relating to Welsh subjects.
Poetry Archive. Biographical stubs on poet’s and audio recordings of poems.
Queen Victoria’s Journals. Links to the digitised contents of Queen Victoria’s journals from the Royal Archives. (subscription required)
Royal Society Memoirs. Links to biographies of Royal Society fellows.
Spanish Biographical Dictionary. Biographical entries on Spanish subjects.
Westminster Abbey. Biographical stubs for Westminster Abbey burials and poet’s corner.
Links to other OUP resources
American National Biography. The ODNB’s sister dictionary of American biography.
Electronic Enlightenment. A collection of edited correspondence from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, providing biographical stubs with links to correspondents, letters, and works by biographical subjects.
Who’s Who and Who Was Who. Autobiographical entries by over 100,000 influential people from all walks of life, who left their mark on British public life.
Grove Art. Links to articles in the foremost scholarly art encyclopaedia.
Grove Music. Links to articles on musicians and music.
