Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2005-2008
This book, drawn from the award-winning online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, tells the story of our recent past through the lives of those who shaped national life.
Print Book, English, 2013
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2013
Dictionary
x, 1242 pages : portraits ; 26 cm
9780199671540, 0199671540
820779250
"This is the second printed supplement to the Oxford dictionary of national biography, which was published in 2004 in sixty volumes and online ... includes the lives of a further 865 people who died in the four years from January 2005 to December 2008; ... The articles in this volume were first published between 2009 and 2012 in updates to the online edition of the Oxford dictionary of national biography"--Preface
Includes index of contributors