Peter Hunter Blair

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

Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.^[2]

Selected publications[]

• 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 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.

References[]

Bibligraphy[]

• Clemoes, Peter (1985). "Peter Hunter Blair: 1912–1982" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. British Academy. LXX: 451–461. ISBN 978-0-19-726037-1.

See also[]

• A History of England

External links[]

• Works by or about Peter Hunter Blair in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Peter Hunter Blair at Library of Congress Authorities, with 14 catalogue records

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