Peter Hunter Blair

Who was Peter Hunter Blair?

Peter Hunter Blair was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period. In 1969 he married Pauline Clarke. She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.

Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. His published works include:

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation and Its Importance Today: Jarrow Lecture 1959. Jarrow Lectures. 1959.

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, with a new introduction by Simon Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003 [1956]. ISBN 0-521-53777-0.

Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. – A.D. 871. Norton Library History of England. Edinburgh & New York: Nelson, W. W. Norton & Company. 1963. ISBN 0-351-15318-7.

The Coming of Pout. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 1969.

The World of Bede. London: Secker & Warburg. 1970. ISBN 0-436-05010-2.

Northumbria in the Days of Bede. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1976. ISBN 0-575-01840-2.