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The Blackwell
Lecture for 2007 was delivered by author and broadcaster
Bamber Gascoigne. He spoke on the first four centuries
of colour printing in Europe in his lecture “Charmers
and Charlatans: Early Masters of Colour Printing”.
Bamber Gascoigne
has written and presented numerous historical documentaries
on television including The Christians, Man and
Music and The Great Moghuls. He was also,
for 25 years, the presenter of University Challenge.
Although best
known from television, he works primarily as a writer
and has published some 20 books, ranging from history
to fiction and children's books. He has developed an
online digital world history called “History World”
and a related site, “Time Search”, which uses timelines
as a way of searching the internet.
Bamber Gascoigne
is an authority on the history and techniques of printmaking
and graphic reproduction.
His text book,
How to Identify Prints (1968), has become a
standard in the print departments of colleges and museums.
The lecture
was organised by The Centre for the History of the Book
and sponsored by Blackwell Book Shops.
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