Fid Backhouse and others
Contributor
Fid Backhouse—along with Kieran Fogarty, Roland Matthews, Joe Toussaint, Janet Zoro, Jackum Brown, and Sal Oliver—is a contributor to 501 Most Devastating Disasters. Their work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 501 Most Devastating Disasters, where the work originally appeared.
Primary Contributions (27)
Sinking of the Estonia, disaster that occurred on September 28, 1994, when the ferry Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. It is among the 20th century’s worst maritime disasters and the second-deadliest sinking of a European civilian vessel after that of the Titanic. On September 27,…
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