Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982)[1] was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Life
editHe 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.[2]
In 1970, Hunter Blair was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1980 to a Fellowship of British Academy.[3]
Wife
editIn 1969 Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke.[1] She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.[4]
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.[5]
- 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)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Hunter Blair, Dr Peter". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 30 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ 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).
- ^ Life of Peter Hunter Blair, British Academy, 1982
- ^ Anglo-Saxon Northumbria Google books]
- ^ 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.
Bibliography
edit- Clemoes, Peter (1985). Peter Hunter Blair: 1912–1982 (PDF). Vol. LXX. British Academy. pp. 451–461. ISBN 978-0-19-726037-1.
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External links
edit- Peter Hunter Blair at Library of Congress, with 14 library catalogue records
- Life of Peter Hunter Blair, by Peter Clemoes, The British Academy, 1985
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