On 15 February 2011 20:18, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arguably the answer is "yes", back to the 16th century at least. There > has actually been quite a lot of havoc onsite over stub MP biographies > during the past year, but it transpires that there are pretty good > sources back to 1660, and usually adequate sources in the century > leading up to that (if you work at it). The ODNB took a decision not to > include all MPs (it says somewhere, in terms that suggest that it was a > decision that did at least require a moment's thought). There is a project (even longer-running and slower-burning than the ODNB) to construct a reference work covering all MPs, at least as much as they're known, along with various other bits and pieces: http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about.html In the past sixty years, they've managed to cover a little over half the timeframe in twenty-eight (!) volumes. I have never seen their work, I admit, but I'd be intrigued to... -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
