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Biography Footnotes

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Click here to read the latest edition of the National Centre of Biography's newsletter, Biography Footnotes.

In it you will find Michael Kirby’s speech to the guests at the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of volume one of the ADB; Kent Fitch’s controversial suggestion that we should place ADB entries in Wikepedia; information about the relatively new, but very useful, Biographical Database of Australia; and a review of the latest batch of entries added to the ADB’s website in March.