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National dictionaries of biography assemble individual lives into larger accounts of a country’s past. This collection examines how those reference works are made, revised and used, including the changes brought by searchable digital collections and connections between previously separate projects.
Editors and historians discuss New Zealand, Irish, British, Australian, American, Scottish, Welsh and Canadian experience. Chapters consider selection, representation, bilingual publication, migration and the relationship between national and world biography. Practical accounts of revising established dictionaries sit alongside questions about whose lives enter a reference work and how readers can use the resulting material. The volume grew from a Canberra conference and includes contributor biographies.