Biographical Information

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Williams, Ann. A biographical dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales, 500-1050. London: Seaby, 1991.

SML, Main Reference Room DA152W544 1991

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae (Institute of Historical Research)

1066-1300

1066-1300

1300-1541

1541-1857

A new edition of the 1854 original which, when complete, will trace the chronology and careers of all the bishops, deans, archdeacons and canons of the cathedral churches of England and Wales from the earliest times to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Fletcher, R. A. Who's who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1989.

SML, Main Reference Room DA135 F54 1989

Tyerman, Christopher. Who's who in early medieval England, 1066-1272. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1996.

Hicks, M. A. Who's who in late medieval England (1272-1485). London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1991.

SML, Main Reference Room DA28 H535 1991

Hill, C. P. Who's who in Stuart Britain. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1988.

SML, Main Reference Room DA377 H545 1988

Valentine, Alan. The British establishment, 1760-1784: an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. 2v.

SML, Stacks DA28.4 V35

Biographical dictionary of modern British radicals. Ed. Joseph O. Baylen. Sussex, England: Harvester Press, 1979-1984. 4v.

SML, Main Reference Room HN400 R3 B56 (LC)

v.1: 1770-1830; v.2: 1830-1870; v.3, pt.1: 1870-1914 (A-K); v.3, pt.2: 1870-1914 (L-Z)

Paul, James Balfour, Sir. The Scots peerage...an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914. 9v.

SML, Main Reference Room CS468 P38 (LC)

Dictionary of labour biography. biography [by] Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville. [Clifton] N.J., A. M. Kelley, 1972-<2000>  10 vols. to be complete in 12

SML, Starr Main Reference Room (Non-Circulating) HD8393 A1 B45 (LC)

 

The time span the dictionary covers is broadly that of the labour movement in the period of industrialisation from around 1790 to the present day.

Biography and genealogy master index.

A comprehensive index -- not connecting to full-text -- to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

Biography index

Biography Index cites biographical material appearing in more than 3,000 periodicals,some 2,500 current books (annually) of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas, and biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities. Full-text links are available from many entries.

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 245,000 biographies from respected single-volume biographical works and full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.

The Blackwell biographical dictionary of British political life in the twentieth century. Ed. Keith Robbins. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference, 1990.

SML, Main Reference Room DA566.9 A1 B57 1990

British biographical archive [microform]. Munchen; New York: K. G. Saur, 1984-1988. 1236 microfiche.

SML, Reference Fiche B1275

British Art, Reference Fiche B8

A one-alphabet cumulation of 324 of the most important English language biographical reference works originally published 1601-1929. A list of the sources included appears on fiches I-XVI.

Guide: British Biographical Index. London; New York: Saur, 1990. v.4.

SML, Main Reference RoomCT773 +B75 1990 (LC)

Indexed online by the World biographical index (choose Biographical Search, then select "bba" and "british biographical archive")

Burke, Sir John Bernard. Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage, and knightage. London: Burke, YUL035176-. Annual to 1940; quadrennial 1949- .

SML, Stacks CS420 B87 (LC) [Latest volume in Main Reference Room]

Cokayne, George Edward. The complete baronetage. Exeter: Pollard, 1900-1906. 5v.

SML, Main Reference Room CS424 C65 (LC)

v.1 English and Irish, 1611-1625; v.2 English, Irish, and Scottish, 1625-1649; v.3 English, Irish, and Scottish, 1649-1664; v.4: English, Irish, and Scottish, 1665-1707; v.5: Great Britain and Ireland, 1707-1800 (Jacobite, 1688-1788)

.-----. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct or dormant. London: St. Catherine's Press, 1910-59. 14v.

SML, Main Reference Room CS421 +C65 1910

Donaldson, Gordon. Who's who in Scottish history. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973.

SML, Main Reference Room DA758 D65

Englefield, Dermot J. T. Facts about the British prime ministers: a compilation of biographical and historical information. New York: H. W. Wilson Co, 1995

SML, Main Reference Room DA28.4 fE54X 1995

Fenwick, Gillian. Women and the Dictionary of National Biography: a guide to DNB volumes 1885-1985 and missing persons. Aldershot, Hants, England: Scholar Press; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1994.

SML, Main Reference Room DA28 F43X 1994

KnowUK. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey.

This site provides access to current biographical information from a wide variety of sources ranging from Army and Air Force Lists to House of Commons, House of Lords, Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Parliament, and former MPs' biographies.

National Portrait Gallery

A search facility with 102,296 portraits from the Gallery's collections, 53,316 of which are illustrated.

Oxford dictionary of national biography

The premier source for biographical information on persons connected with the British Isles from all periods of history.

 

Rubinstein, W. D. The Harvester biographical dictionary of life peers. Hertfordshire; New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.

SML, Main Reference Room DA28.8 R83X 1991

Who was who, a companion to "Who's who", containing the biographies of those who died. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1897/1915-[1981/90]. Decennial.

SML, Main Reference Room DA28 W43

Also available online through KnowUK

Who's who, an annual biographical dictionary. London: Black, 1849- .

SML, Stacks DA28 W46

All volumes since the last edition of Who Was Who are in the Main Reference Room.

Also available online through KnowUK

Who's who in Northern Ireland.

Available online through KnowUK

Who's who in Scotland.

Available online through KnowUK