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Who's Who is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 33,000 influential people in British public life today, and has been since 1849. Containing autobiographical listings of Britain's senior politicians, judges, civil servants and notable figures from the arts, academia and other areas it is widely seen as the standard reference work for the UK's governing classes. International figures include Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Venus Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Cruise, Barack Obama, and Woody Allen. What makes Who's Who unique is the fact each entry is written by the subject themselves and many include contact details.Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, which were included in previous editions of Who's Who. Together they provide an unparalleled collection of 'autobiographical' records which complement and extend Oxford's collections of lively and authoritative biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Reference Online, and the Grove dictionaries of Art and Music.This print and online set, available exclusively from OUP, offers the best of both worlds: a permanent record in the form of the famous annual red volume (edited and published by A & C Black), and personal single-user access for 12 months to the OUP online service that includes both Who's Who and Who Was Who.