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The former host of University Challenge Bamber Gascoigne has died aged 87, his representative has said.

The former University Challenge quizmaster, playwright and publisher was a genuinely erudite man, with an intensely telegenic way of showcasing his natural intelligence

The master historian passed away at the age of 95 on October 1, 2012. "In an era of narrow specialists, Eric Hobsbawm remains the supreme generalist," said Sir Keith Thomas, himself an accomplished historian.

This social history looks at African slavery and the Atlantic slave trade which, in the space of 300 years, transported more than 11 million Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean - with millions more dying en route. No other slave system in world history was so regulated and determined by the question of race, or had forcibly removed so many people and scattered them across such vast distances or had such prodigious results for the slave-owning class. Using contemporary accounts, this book...

Abstract This essay gives a brief overview of the events of 26-27 August 1883, when the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded; it generated tsunamis which killed over 36,000 people, was heard 3,000 miles away, and produced measurable changes in sea level and air pressure across the world. The essay then discusses the findings of the Royal Society’s Report on Krakatoa, and the reports in the periodical press of lurid sunsets resulting from Krakatoa’s dust moving through the atmos...