User:Bamber Gascoigne

I am the author of general books of history on a wide range of topics, including World Theatre (1968), The Great Moghuls (1971), The Treasures and Dynasties of China (1973), The Christians (1977), Encyclopedia of Britain (1993), Milestones in Colour Printing (1997).

For the past ten years I have been creating, specifically for the internet, a narrative encyclopedia of world history under the title HistoryWorld. It amounts already to more than a million words, and has two companion sites: OCEAN Index (an edited index of more than 40,000 entries to the best history articles on the web) and, from February 2007, TimeSearch (a search engine using timeline menus as a way of finding online history).

I am a frequent and devoted user of Wikipedia, an extraordinary global cooperative effort of which the best articles are unsurpassed and the worst rapidly improving.