So in a way new entries find their way into his obituarial works and slowly but surely Muneer Sletch is mounting up a huge data which can ultimately be used as a basis for a Pakistani
Dictionary of National Biography, something badly needed.
The Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography called the Shankland Plan "the most visionary and ambitious of any British city centre plan in that decade", but that huge excitement soon faded.
With the addition of 226 new entrants, the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography now includes biographies of 60,984 people.
At the
Dictionary of National Biography he created the model on which biography was written for decades.
"The Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography is not exactly bursting with Geordie pitmen."
1499), Bishop of Norwich," in Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004-2014).
(11) Pat Rogers, 'Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)', Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
He wrote a number of important articles for the journal Past and Present and made an impressive 47 contributions to the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. Clearly his range of interests has been commendably broad.
Debate over Godiva's final resting place is unlikely to go away, but the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography states that there is no reason to doubt reports that she was buried in Coventry.
Now the leader of that band, Wallace Hartley, has been given his own entry in the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).
It is surprising to discover that Merlin is in the Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. There is no historical evidence for his existence--he is even more shadowy than Arthur.