Peter Hunter Blair

Peter Hunter Blair

Peter Hunter Blair (1912–1982) 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. 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 (Third ed.). 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 0351153187. 
  • The Coming of Pout. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 1969. 
  • The World of Bede. London: Secker & Warburg. 1970. ISBN 0436050102. 
  • Northumbria in the Days of Bede. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1976. ISBN 0575018402. 

See also

  • A History of England

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