Book description: Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.
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While national biographical dictionaries aim to present a nation’s past, they are also very much creations of that nation’s present. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (The BDSW ), published in 2006, is no exception.1 The first edition was conceived at a time (2001) when Scotland had just recently reconvened its own parliament after a hiatus of nearly 300 years, gaining new powers of self-governance. In the wake of rising self-confidence in the country’s future, the writing of new national histories, as well as handbooks and companions, flourished. A revised and expanded volume, The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (The New BDSW ), was commissioned in late 2015, on the heels of the 2014 independence referendum. Moreover, it was compiled in the midst of the repercussions of the 2016 Brexit vote which may yet lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, given that a majority in Scotland voted
虽然国家传记词典旨在展示一个国家的过去，但它们在很大程度上也是这个国家现在的产物。2006年出版的《苏格兰妇女传记词典》(BDSW)也不例外第一版是在2001年构思的，当时苏格兰刚刚在中断了近300年之后重新召集了自己的议会，获得了新的自治权力。随着对国家未来信心的增强，新国史的写作，以及手册和同伴，蓬勃发展。在2014年苏格兰独立公投之后，2015年年底，修订和扩充的《新苏格兰女性传记词典》(The New BDSW)面世。此外，该报告是在2016年英国脱欧公投的影响下编制的，鉴于苏格兰的大多数人都投票了，英国脱欧公投可能会导致英国解体
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