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In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception.Thomas, Keith is the author of 'Changing Conceptions Of National Biography The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521671187 and ISBN 0521671183.
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