Preliminary pages; A Dictionary of Public Figures ; Foreword; Obligations and Debts in Writing the ADB; 1. 'Insufficiently Engineered': A Dictionary Designed to Stand the Test of Time?; Editors and their Eras; 2. Sir Keith Hancock: Laying the Foundations, 1959-1962; 3. 'Born to do this work': Douglas Pike ; 4. Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle: A Fine Partnership, 1973-1987; 5. John Ritchie: Consolidating a Tradition, 1987-2002; 6. The Di Langmore Era, and Going Online, Online, 2002-2008; National Collaboration; 7. Working Parties: Recollections of the South Australian Working Party

The New South Wales Working PartyRecollections of the New South Wales Wor; The Queensland Working Party; 8. From the First Fleet to 'Underbelly': Writing for the ADB; 9. National Collaboration: The ADB Editorial Board and the Working Parties; 10. Assessing the ADB: A Review of the Reviews; Pasts and Futures; ADB Volumes; 11. Opportunities for National Biography Online: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005-2012; 12. From Book to Digital Culture: Redesigning the ADB; Appendices; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Abbreviations; Index

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