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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames, and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England His most recent book is Queer City. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.


How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

Peter Ackroyd on AIDS in the UK, Clause 28, and the Gay Liberation Front
May 2, 2018  By Peter Ackroyd
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