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Background
- Born in
- Colwyn Bay
- Educated at
- St Edmund HallRoyal Grammar School, Guildford
- Awards
- 🏆 European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award🏆 Children's Book Award (UK)🏆 Time Machine Award
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Trending topics shown first"Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages?...I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears – Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighto…"
"Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. Ho…"
"What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan."
"It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance."
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1942
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Birth2020
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