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FEVER
PITCH
by
Nick Hornby
(1992) |
Nick Hornby's memoir Fever Pitch chronicles
his obsessive relationship - from childhood to adulthood -
with the football club Arsenal and the matches he watched
at their former stadium Highbury in the borough.
He set many of his other novels in the borough, including
About A Boy.
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| London
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The
County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with
the City of London remaining an independent body.
In 1965 Greater London was formed,
taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county)
together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of
Kent and Surrey.
Greater
London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together
with the City of London.
Islington
once lay in Middlesex and is today one of the 13 boroughs making up
Inner London. It borders the City of London to its south.
London Boroughs |
| Actors
and Directors |
The
film director and screenwriter Alan
Parker was born as Alan William Parker in Islington in 1944. His
mother a dressmaker, his father a house painter, he began his career
as a copywriter, later writing and directing television advertisements.
He used this experience to start writing screenplays, first for television
and then for the cinema, and in 1976 had his first success with Bugsy
Malone.
He went on to direct a wide variety of films ranging from true life
stories, to musicals and book adaptations, sometimes critically acclaimed,
sometimes controversial. These included: Midnight Express (1978),
Fame (1980), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Commitments
(1991), Evita (1997) and Angela's Ashes (1999).
Alan
Parker (1985)
Alan
Parker (1998)
Alan
Parker
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| Anglo-Saxons
and Danes |
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Anglo-Saxon Kings
Danish Kings |
The
borough once lay in Middlesex which once formed the kingdom
the kingdom of the Middle Saxons, so
named because their kingdom lay between those of the East Saxons (Essex)
and the West Saxons (Wessex).
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