The multi-award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a vast biographical resource containing over 55,000 specially commissioned articles on people who left their mark on all walks of British life over the last 2,400 years. International in scope, the ODNB covers not just the British Isles, but also includes people from the former British colonies, the Commonwealth, and beyond.
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