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Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd 1949-, British author, b. London; studied Clare College, Cambridge (M.A., 1971) and Yale. A literary journalist, he wrote for the Spectator (1973-82) and has reviewed books for the London Times since 1986. His early work includes three volumes of poetry (1973, 1978, 1987), a... Read more
Great Fire of London 1666 Great Fire of London 1666
ACKROYD, Peter Nationality: British. Born: London, 5 October 1949. Education: St. Benedict's, Ealing, 1960-67; Clare College, Cambridge, 1968-71; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Mellon fellow), 1971-73. Career: Literary editor, 1973-77, and joint managing editor, 1978-81, the... Read more
Dame Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan , and she gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily... Read more
battle of Brunanburh battle of Brunanburh
battle of Brunanburh , AD 937, a victory won by Athelstan , king of the English, over a coalition of Irish, Scots, and Britons (or Welsh) of Strathclyde. The site of the battle is not known. The battle is celebrated in a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Bibliography: See translation by D.... Read more
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle collective name given several English monastic chronicles in Anglo-Saxon, all stemming from a compilation made from old annals and other sources c.891. Although the work was thought for some time to have been commissioned by King Alfred, there is no positive evidence to... Read more
Jules Feiffer Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer , 1929-, American cartoonist and writer, b. New York City. He began publishing a cartoon strip in the Village Voice in 1956, maintaining his association with the paper until 1997; his strip continued until 2000 in several Sunday papers. Satirizing a world dominated by the atomic bomb... Read more
Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton 1752-70, English poet. The posthumous son of a poor Bristol schoolmaster, he was already composing the "Rowley Poems" at the age of 12, claiming they were copies of 15th-century manuscripts at the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. In 1769 he sent several of these poems to... Read more
Battle of Biedcanford Battle of Biedcanford
Biedcanford, battle of, c.571. Though Biedcanford was clearly an important battle, it is difficult to identify. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle seems precise, attributing a victory over the Britons to Cutha, brother of Ceawlin of Wessex, who went on to take the towns of Lygeabyrig, Aeglesbyrig,... Read more
Henry of Huntingdon Henry of Huntingdon
Henry of Huntingdon d. 1155, English chronicler, archdeacon of Huntingdon. His Historia Anglorum is important not because it gives many new facts but because it was much used by later writers. It is based on Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the earlier period but is original work for the... Read more
Battle of Dyrham Battle of Dyrham
Dyrham, battle of, 577. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, with remarkable detail, recorded that at Dyrham, east of Bristol, Ceawlin, king of Wessex, defeated and killed three British kings, and went on to occupy Bath, Cirencester, and Gloucester. There is little doubt that this was a major victory in the... Read more

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