Peter Hunter Blair

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Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982)[1] was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period. In 1969 he married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke.[1] She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.[2]

Life[edit]

He was the son of Charles Henry Hunter Blair and his wife Alice Maude Mary France. He was educated at Durham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[1]

Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

  • 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.[4]
  • 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. London: Jonathan Cape. 1966.
  • 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.
  • Lapidge, Michael; Hunter Blair, Pauline, eds. (1984). Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 9780860781417. (Reprint of essays by Peter Hunter Blair published 1939 to 1976)

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Hunter Blair, Dr Peter". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 30 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Anglo-Saxon Northumbria Google books
  3. ^ Peter Hunter Blair, 'Whitby as a Centre of Learning in the Seventh Century', in Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 3-32 (at p. 3, fn. 1).
  4. ^ Powicke, M. R. (1956). "Review of An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair". The Canadian Historical Review. 37 (3): 279. doi:10.3138/chr-037-04-br45. S2CID 250393542.

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