Lawrence Goldman
'Virtual Lives: History and Biography in an Electronic Age' by Lawrence Goldman | 2007 Seymour Biography Lecture
by Lawrence Goldman •
Universal dictionaries are no longer possible or desirable. If we would conquer the realm of knowledge we must be content to divide it.’ Thus wrote The Times on 5 January 1885 in its first article on the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), whose initial supplement – the first of an eventual sixty-three published over the next fifteen years – was then about to appear.
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