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Biography Footnotes

Monday 19 December 2011

Click here to download the latest edition of the National Centre of Biography’s newsletter, Biography Footnotes.

In it you will find our farewell to two of our staff, news of a symposium on turning theses into books, our 'favourite' obituary of the year, an article on the trials and tribulations of writing an ADB entry and details about Richard Harrison's ambitious project to create a Database of Australian Elites.