Electronic resources

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography now includes nearly 100 new biographies including landscapers and country house founders, such as Fanny Wilkinson, designer of over 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 group 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.