Sir Arnold Waters, Sir Bruce Gordon White, Sir John Purser Griffith
🚧 New Month, New Stories!
This #ODNB update brings 10 fresh biographies across 7 new entries, spotlighting the civil engineers and contractors who shaped our world from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
👉 Read the introduction here oxford.ly/3P44VlL
#WHM A different type of resource today & #ODNB ongoing programme to increase its coverage of women - the brilliant Lynne Walker has written many of these on women in/and architecture. See this for more on the programme of updates: www.oxforddnb.com/fileasset/AM...
anyone know if @theul.bsky.social access to the #ODNB is down? I'm clicking institutional access/ library card etc but am not getting anywhere. #academics
Harriet Cawse, Astra Desmond, Esme Church, Binnie Hale, Florence St John, Jessie Bond, Leonora Braham
This month, ODNB is here with 15 new or updated lives, with a special focus on operatic singers and figures connected with the theatre active from the 18th to the 20th century.
Read more on #ODNB: oxford.ly/464RHuI
...singers including Florence Easton, Norman Allin, Astra Desmond and Alexander Young, among others - and new likenesses including for Gilbert and Sullivan performers Jessie Bond and Leonora Braham. @academic.oup.com #odnb #skystorians #history #ukhistory
John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
On 26 January 1926, Scottish engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated television to 40 members of the Royal Institution in London.
Discover more about his life and inventions in #ODNB: oxford.ly/45U2rvN
Congratulations, William!
William Whyte appointed General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography corp.oup.com/news/william... #skystorians 🗃️#ODNB
Edmund Meyricke; William Owen Pugh; Egerton Phillimore; John Edward Lloyd; Maria Jane Williams; Morfydd Owen
Interested in knowing more about Wales’s rich history?
This month’s #ODNB update includes 23 bios, showing the varying ways in which historians of Wales have explored the deep roots of Welsh history in over 5 centuries.
Learn more about their lives: oxford.ly/49MA9FR
Portrait of John Aubrey
In 2026, ODNB celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of antiquary and biographer John Aubrey. His collection of Brief Lives is cited as a source in over 150 ODNB articles. Discover more about his work and life on #ODNB:
oxford.ly/4pHZmXK
Portrait of Christian Cavendish
ODNB #Christmas birthdays include the royalist noblewoman, Christian Cavendish (1595-1675), countess of Devonshire. At her home in Roehampton, Surrey, she welcomed wits, authors, and politicians.
Read more about her life and work on #ODNB: oxford.ly/4pI7FTt
Portrait collage of Bosworth, Dyche, Jackson, and Sinclair
This month’s ODNB update features 20 articles on lexicographers active over 5 centuries, showing how dictionaries in the past were often made by people busy with other things, from teaching to medicine.
Read their stories on #ODNB #OxfordDictionaries oxford.ly/4pSW6cd
Baron Nahum, Christian Siebe Augustus, Eleanor Morgan, Francis Morris, Goetze, Grace Hadow, Harry Nun, Hubert, John Nicholson, John Philip, John Archibald Venn, Nigohrus, Orpen, Sigismund, Sterling Henry
Ever wondered who shaped penal reform or left a mark on art, business, and science?
📚This month’s #ODNB update brings 12 fresh biographies across three centuries, informing you about individuals from across these topics.
Discover the stories now: oxford.ly/4nVY3Tg
Henry Redhead Yorke; Louis Celeste Lecesne; Edmonia Lewis; Jimmy Durham, and the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.
October’s ODNB update has four new articles on historic figures in Britain of African or part-African descent, including Yorke, Lecesne, Lewis, and Durham. Plus a survey of the sitters in the painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.
Read the stories on #ODNB: oxford.ly/46VduWJ
New in the #ODNB: Louis Celeste Lecesne, Haitian-Jamaican merchant, activist and deportation victim. doi.org/10.1093/odnb...
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
⭐ Our Curator of Art Collections has contributed three new biographies on women artists for this month's #ODNB update.
Read her Introduction and new entries in the link below! 👇
#ODNB #WomenInArt
Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh
🌟 This month’s ODNB update celebrates women artists in Britain across 3 centuries!
Discover 9 new biographies, including Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh.
Explore their stories ➡️ oxford.ly/4mnkfVG
#ODNB #WomenInArt
Images of Pioneering women from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
🕮 We have added nine new articles on pioneering women in the book trade from 1540 to 1665, as well as eight portraits of women active from 1624 to 2003.
Discover their stories, impact, and legacy on #ODNB: oxford.ly/4mHA1v2
Today's #ODNB life is the extraordinary Lady Eleanor Davies, who is linked to the Diggers.
What a life, including using non-violent direct action tactics in Lichfield Cathedral with distinctly modern echoes
#WomensHistory
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Josiah Spode, Arnold Bennett, Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper, Reginald Mitchell, and Stanley Matthews.
🌟 We’re spotlighting 20 remarkable lives that shaped Stoke-on-Trent's story, including Josiah Spode, Arnold Bennett, Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper, Reginald Mitchell, and Stanley Matthews.
oxford.ly/3IQVxyD
Do you have any stories that show Stoke's spirit? Let us know! 👇
#ODNB
About to speak to @thercn.bsky.social Fellows about their #HistNursing #Archives #OralHistory #ODNB & #Wikipedia
No pressure then 💙
