New Biographies
The new biographies capture the wide breadth of British life at home and abroad and introduce users to the lives of landscapers and country house founders, such as Fanny Wilkinson, designer of more than 75 of London's squares and gardens; shapers of the empire and Commonwealth, such as Solomon Suna'one Mamaloni, chief minister and prime minister of the Solomon Islands; and early Episcopal and regional lives, such as James Berkeley, bishop of Exeter in the early 14th century.

New Reference Groups
The 45 group essays continue Oxford's project to provide a history of British clubs, gangs and coteries. New groups added in this update range chronologically from the ninth-century scholars of King Alfred's court to the Kitchen Sink painters of the 1950s, and geographically from the Scottish Martyrs to the Chindits of Burma. With more than 200 group essays available in the Themes area of the Oxford DNB, readers will find current group essays that make connections between the people involved in some of Britain's best-known networks, from the Norman conquerors to members of the early Women's Social and Political Union.

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