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    Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London...
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  • politician Joyce Ackroyd (1918–1991), Australian academic, translator, author and editor Norman Ackroyd (born 1938), English artist Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)...
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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The...
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    p. 462 Dickens 2003, p. 470 Dickens by Peter Ackroyd; Harper Collins, 1990, p. 777 Dickens by Peter Ackroyd; Harper Collins, 1990, p. 859 Dickens, Charles...
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    ISBN 9780300107869. Peter Ackroyd, "Thames: Sacred River" 272–273 Peter Ackroyd, Thames: The Biography. 272 & 274. Peter Ackroyd, "Thames: Sacred River" 272 Peter Ackroyd...
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    conflict between the two during the period of Blake's apprenticeship, but Peter Ackroyd's biography notes that Blake later added Basire's name to a list of artistic...
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  • Peter Runham Ackroyd (15 September 1917 – 23 January 2005) was a British Biblical scholar, Anglican priest, and former Congregational minister. From 1961...
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  • London: The Biography (category Books by Peter Ackroyd)
    London: The Biography is a 2000 non-fiction book by Peter Ackroyd published by Chatto & Windus. Ackroyd's work, following his previous work on London in one...
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    that has grown to a population of over eight million. The historian Peter Ackroyd argues that Bazalgette should be considered a hero of London. Satirical...
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  • Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (category Novels by Peter Ackroyd)
    The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical...
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