''British Biographical Index'' in four vols. Edited by David Bank and Anthony Esposito. London: K.G. Saur. It is the key to the
British Biographical Archive. Edited by Laureen Baillie and Paul Sieveking. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1984-. 1236 fiches.
The collection includes 330,000 biographical entries from 324 reference books originally published between 1601 and 1929. Most major reference libraries have it. In digital online form, it forms part of the
World Biographical Information System Online The ''World Biographical Information System Online'' (or ''WBIS Online'') is an online database that contains biographical articles from international lexica and encyclopedias in various languages.
Claiming to be "the most comprehensive biographic ...
British biographical dictionaries
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