Welcome to the 120th update of theOxford DNB, which adds one new article and one updated article, surveying 75 South Asian and 297 Black lives in the Oxford DNB, ranging over fifteen centuries.

Welcome to the 119th update of theOxford DNB which comprises four new and nine updated articles, adding the lives of eight women and men active from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, accompanied by two new portrait likeness.

Welcome to the 118th update of theOxford DNB, featuring the lives of operatic and theatre singers. This update adds biographies of seven women and men, accompanied by one new portrait likeness. The update also includes 82 updated Reference Lists, and identifies over 1,500 biographical anniversaries in 2025.

Meet influential individuals with milestone anniversaries in 2025, marking significant life events ranging from 100 to 400 years ago. Browse our collection of biographies and learn more about each person's life and legacy …

Welcome to the 117th update of theOxford DNB, which adds seven twentieth-century lives, including three émigrés from continental Europe, two businesspeople, a mosaicist, and a figure from London’s criminal underworld. The update also includes one updated article and six new portrait likenesses

Welcome to the 116th update of theOxford DNB, which has a special focus on lives with a global dimension, literary lives, and medical lives. This update adds twelve new biographies, spanning four centuries, and one reference group article, and also includes four revisited biographies. There are also three additional portrait likenesses.

Welcome to the 115th update of theOxford DNB, which adds biographies of four people of African or part-African descent in Britain and its empire, accompanied by a reference group article and seven new portrait likenesses. 

To celebrate the ODNB turning 20, we’re sharing thirty influential lives from the British Isles spanning nearly two millennia.

Welcome to the 114th update of theOxford DNB, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dictionary’s first publication in September 2004.

Welcome to the 113th update of theOxford DNB, which adds sixteen new articles and seven portrait likenesses. Entries in this release have a special focus on the lives of early modern noblewomen in Britain.