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• Click in the box labelled 'Library Card Login'
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• Please include the capital 'D' at the beginning of your membership number - this is case sensitive.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of 50,000 men and women who shaped Britain's past.

You can discover over 2,000 years of history through the lives of famous Britons.

From kings to poets, saints to murderers, cricketers to scientists the Dictionary of National biography will provide an authoritative account of their life and times.

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