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Australian Dictionary Of Biography




The ADB project has been operating since 1957 with staff located at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University . Since its inception, 4000 authors have contributed to the ADB and its published volumes contain nine thousand eight hundred scholarly articles on ten thousand seven hundred individuals. About the Australian Dictionary of Biography

To date, the ADB has produced sixteen volumes of biographical articles on important and representative figures in Australian history.

  • Volumes 1 and 2 (published in 1966-67) covered subjects who lived in the period 1788-1850

  • Volumes 3 to 6 (published in 1969-76) dealt with the period 1851-1890

  • Volumes 7 to 12 (published in 1979-90) dealt the period 1891-1939

  • Volumes 13 to 16 (published in 1993-2002) dealt the period 1940-1980

  • Volumes 17 and 18 will cover people who died between 1980 and 1990

  • A Supplementary volume of Australians not covered by the original volumes was released in 2005.


In addition to publishing these works, the ADB makes it's primary research material available to the academic community and the public.

On 6 July 2006, the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online was launched by , based at the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Australian National University .

The ADB project should not be confused with the much smaller and older '' Dictionary Of Australian Biography '' by Percival Serle first published in 1949.


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