From the Publisher:
Over a twelve-year period a distinguished supervisory committee from the University of Oxford, with a grant from the British Academy, has coordinated the work of 10,000 specialists worldwide to recreate one of the great English reference works. The result is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to th end of the year 2000. The stories of these lives--told in substantial, authoritative, and readable articles--will be published simultaneously in 60 print volumes and online in September 2004.
About the Author:
The founding editor of the Oxford DNB, the late Professor H. C. G. Matthew FBA, was fellow of St Hugh's College and Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. His major biography Gladstone, 1809-1898 was the culmination of work on the 'Grand Old Man' of Victorian politics for
which he was awarded the 1995 Wolfson prize for history; he also completed the landmark fourteen-volume edition of The Gladstone Diaries (1968-1994). After his initial research on The liberal Imperialists: the Ideas and Politics of a post-Gladstonian Elite (1973) he wrote widely on aspects of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, in articles and contributions to collective works such as the Oxford Illustrated History of Britain and the Short Oxford History of the British Isles. Colin Matthew died in 1999. Brian Harrison, Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography since
2000, has been at the University of Oxford since 1958, when he arrived as an undergraduate to read modern history. He has been Professor of Modern British History since 1996. Since his first book, Drink and the Victorians (1971), he has published extensively on the social, political and cultural
history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His books include Separate Spheres. The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain (1978), Peaceable Kingdom. Stability and Change in Modern Britain (1982), Prudent Revolutionaries. Portraits of British Feminists between the Wars (1987)
and The Transformation of British Politics 1860-1995 (1996). He edited and contributed to the eighth volume in the History of the University of Oxford (1994) and is writing the final volume (1951-90) in the 'New Oxford History of England'.
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