Biography
The Master by Sean Fagan and Dally Messenger III & The Ballad of Les Darcy by Peter FiztSimons
by Braham Dabscheck •
John Winston Howard: The biography by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen
by Norman Abjorensen •
Kevin Rudd by Robert Macklin & Kevin Rudd by Nicholas Stuart
by Neal Blewett •
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time by Clive James
by Morag Fraser •
The Feasts and Seasons of John F. Kelly by Robert Pascoe
by Michael McGirr •
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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