Peter Chrisp (born 20 May 1958) is a British
children's author
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Children's ...
of books on history. With over ninety books published, his various works include ''Blitzkrieg!'',
Dorling Kindersley's ''
Ancient Egypt Revealed'' and ''
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 B ...
Revealed'', ''The Spanish Conquests of the
New World
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'', and many more.
He first began writing history after working on the
Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation is a United Kingdom social research project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the University of Sussex.
Mass-Observation originally aimed to record everyday ...
archive at the
University of Sussex
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
. He has also worked as a writer on the online project "Icons of England".
Aside from his publications in literature, he is also an artist, who has exhibited collections of his cartoons and hand-drawn
postcard
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s during
Brighton Festival
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.In 2014, his portraits of the
Magna Carta
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barons were displayed in an exhibition in St Edmunsbury Cathedral, and 'were very popular with visiting families and schools'. The illustrations were later displayed as a trail on bollards around the town. In 2017, his Christmas tableaux photographs, with Lisa Wolfe, were featured in
The Observer
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,
Der Spiegel
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, the New Zealand
Stuff.co.nz
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Stuff w ...
news website, and Brighton's Viva magazine. In 2019, his illustrations of the diary of
Thomas Turner began appearing in a monthly column, edited by Mathew Clayton, in Caught by the River.
Since 2013, Chrisp has been writin
''From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay'' a blog about
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
's
Finnegans Wake
''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish literature, Irish writer James Joyce. It is well known for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. It has been called "a work of fiction whi ...
. The blog has been featured in the
Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper ...
, where Chrisp was described as an 'eminent Wake scholar' and 'a self-confessed Joyce obsessive'.
Frank McNally, 'Larks in the Park – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, cricket and running in the dark', The Irish Times, 3 May 2017
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See also
*Dorling Kindersley
Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.
It is part of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of German media co ...
References
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British children's writers
British non-fiction writers
1958 births
Living people
Postcard artists
British male writers
Male non-fiction writers