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Peter Hunter Blair (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Life

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.

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

In 1970, Hunter Blair was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1980 to a Fellowship of British Academy.

Wife

In 1969 Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke. She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.

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 . 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.
• 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

• A History of England

References

1. ^ "Hunter Blair, Dr Peter". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 30 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. 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).
3. Life of Peter Hunter Blair, British Academy, 1982
4. Anglo-Saxon Northumbria Google books]
5. 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

• Clemoes, Peter (1985). Peter Hunter Blair: 1912–1982 (PDF). Vol. LXX. British Academy. pp. 451–461. ISBN 978-0-19-726037-1. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

External links

• 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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