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Peter Hunter Blair
British academic and historian (1912–1982) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Hunter Blair, FBA, FRHistS (22 March 1912 – 9 September 1982)[1] was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.
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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.[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]
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Wife
In 1969 Blair married his third wife, the children's author Pauline Clarke.[1] She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.[4]
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.[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.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - 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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