EXCLUSIVE: Peter Ackroyd’s The History of England is headed ... The author has published five of the six planned books, which cover topics from Stonehenge to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William ...

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And now we have Peter Ackroyd’s Queer City to put it all in context – 'Twas ever thus, if you like – charting the history of gay life in the capital from the Romans to the present day. The historian ...

Ackroyd's Charlie Chaplin ... commedia dell'arte to the contemporary pantomime is homoerotic". Yes, perhaps, Peter, but not all. There is, however, a refreshing lack of qualm.

Acclaimed novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd is known for his wealth of books tackling the history and culture of his native London and taking on biographies of historic luminaries including ...

There is always some line or passage which is interesting or enlightening. You can find good in almost any book. Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd is out now in paperback (Canongate Books, £8.99).

But let Peter Ackroyd, the author of a compact new biography ... poetry and criticism, with some 35 books to his credit. This is an adept volume — a sort of “Chaplin 101” — but it breaks ...

And as Peter Ackroyd points out in the final chapter of his elegant brief life of the poet-writer, Poe's influence pervades the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from Baudelaire and Symbolism to ...

At the age of seven Charlie Chaplin was sleeping on park benches when he wasn’t in the workhouse. His mother, a singer, was in a lunatic asylum. Charles Chaplin senior, another music-hall artist ...