The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries Available to Purchase

Published biographies have long been a lynchpin of reference work. Standard fare for UK reference libraries were, and still are, the Dictionary of National Biography and its revision, the Oxford DNB; Who's Who and Who Was Who, and, for a time, the published volumes of The Times Obituaries. While the use of search engines has, in part, replaced these volumes, it was good to see this volume of biographies selected from the pages of the Daily Telegraph and edited by the paper's Chief Obituary Writer.

According to the author's introduction, “Five volumes [of obituaries] so far have been...