Miles Kerr-Peterson

Miles Kerr-Peterson is an author and historian.

Career

After study at Bridgwater College,[1] Miles Kerr-Peterson gained a PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2016. His research concerned the career of George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal (1554–1623) and resulted in a monograph.[2][3] Kerr–Peterson has edited financial records concerning the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark for publication by the Scottish History Society.[4][5] He also researched Keith Marischal House in East Lothian and its chapel with archaeologists and the Castle Studies Trust.[6][7]

Kerr-Peterson edited a volume of the collected essays of the historian Jenny Wormald.[8] Kerr-Peterson is active member of the Bridgwater Heritage Group in Somerset. Working with Michelle Craig, he has republished the writings of Christina MacDonald MacQueen, a resident of St Kilda who described life on the island before the 1930 evacuation.[9]

Selected publications

  • James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald (Birlinn, 2026).
  • (with Dr. Michelle H Craig), eds, St Kilda: My Island Home: Christina MacDonald MacQueen (Birlinn, 2025).
  • (with Michael Pearce), "King James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts, 1588–1596", Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, XVI (Boydell, 2020), pp. 1-94.
  • A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (Boydell, 2019).
  • (with Steven J. Reid), eds, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland (Routledge, 2017).
  • "Sir William Keith of Delny: Courtier, ambassador and agent of noble power", Innes Review, 67:2 (2016), pp. 138-158. doi:10.3366/inr.2016.0124

References

  1. ↑ History at Bridgwater College
  2. ↑ Thomas Brochard, "Review", Northern Scotland, 11:2 (2020). doi:10.3366/nor.2020.0223
  3. ↑ Allan Kennedy, "Review", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71:4 (2020), 862.
  4. ↑ Andrew Lind, "Review", Studia Celtica Fennica, XVII (2020–2021), 4–7
  5. ↑ Nathan Martin, "Review", Seventeenth-Century News, 79 (Spring/Summer 2021), pp. 49–50
  6. ↑ "Keith Marischal: searching for a lost castle and Renaissance palace", Current Archaeology, 372, February, 2021
  7. ↑ Keith Marischal, Castle Studie Trust
  8. ↑ Amy Saunders, "Review", Royal Studies Journal, 9:2 (2022). doi:10.21039/rsj.365
  9. ↑ Charlie Lynch, "Remembering St Kilda through one woman's rediscovered essays", The National, 16 December 2025.
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