Peter studied History at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was Foundation Scholar, Schiff Scholar and won the History Prize in 1993, when he took an outstanding first-class degree. He did his D.Phil. (Ph.D) at Corpus Christi College, where he was elected to a Senior Scholarship before moving to Worcester College as Junior Research Fellow in 1997. He has been Senior Research Fellow since 2000 and is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Royal Asiatic Society.
Books in order of publication:
The First Crusade: The Call from the East. Belknap Press – 2012
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Bloomsbury – 2015.
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World. Bloomsbury – 2018.
The Silk Roads: An Illustrated New History of the World. Bloomsbury – 2018
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, Bloomsbury – 2023
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