I am helping a researcher who would like to consult the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but unfortunately, we do not have access at my library.

Here's what my researcher writes:

Unfortunately the text of the new DNB is -- at least according to my impressions and what I have read -- all different from the text of the old DNB. I remember the controversies about the radicalness of the changes from a decade ago. I have been researching Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) -- the first serious collector of classical antiquities in England -- and there seem to be two essential views about him, the old-fashioned heroical view (found in two not-very-adequate printed biographies -- one from 1920 and one from 1985). I am assuming the old DNB entry on him reflects the old view. But now there is also a post-modern Arundel with quite a different agenda than the old Arundel -- which I am seeing in isolated chapters and essays of more recent vintage. I want to compare the old DNB and the new DNB entries for him and for Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644) & Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1573-1632) who were diplomats but also art-scouts for Arundel.

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My library has the print edition, which the researcher will come in and use in-person. Would any of you have access to the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and be willing to send me copies of the entries for the following persons?

I would so very much appreciate any assistance or comments you are willing to share.

Sincerely,

Gina

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