Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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If you want to buy the print version of this weighty tome you’ll need a lot of shelf-space and a lot of money. It runs to 60 volumes and costs £7,550. But to celebrate its first birthday, the Oxford DNB’s subscription site is offering completely free access until midnight on Sunday. The site contains over 55,000 biographies of the lives of men and women who have influenced British life from the fourth century BC through to the end of 2001 – from Elizabeth I to John Lennon, William the Conqueror to Les Dawson and Stephen Wright (architect) to Daniel Mendoza (pugilist).