Miles Kerr-Peterson Bibliography

Miles Kerr-Peterson
Miles Kerr-Peterson at Blackness Castle on BBC’s ‘Rise of the Clans’

Academic Books

  • 2025 with Michelle Craig, St Kilda, my Island Home: Christina MacDonald MacQueen, Birlinn (forthcoming)
  • 2025 with Roger Mason, Sixe Bookes of Politickes or civill doctrine by Justus Lipsius; faithfully and truly translated out of Latine in vulgare tongue by M. Thomas Cargill 1594, Scottish History Society (forthcoming).
  • 2021 Editor of James VI and I: Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald, with foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Birlinn.
  • 2019 A Protestant Lord in James VI’s Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554-1623), Boydell & Brewer.
  • 2017 with Steven J. Reid, James VI and Noble Power in Scotland, 1578-1603, Routledge Research in Early Modern History.

Articles and book chapters:

  • 2021 ‘Panter, Patrick’ and ‘Cargill, Thomas’ in C. McCracken-Flesher and A. Riach (eds) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers, Edinburgh University Press.
  • 2020 with Michael Pearce, ‘King James VI’s English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts 1588-96’, Miscellany of the Scottish History Society XVI, pp. 1-94.
  • 2016 ‘Sir William Keith of Delny: Courtier, ambassador and agent of noble power’, Innes Review, 67:2, pp. 138-158.
  • 2016 ‘A Classical Send-off: the funeral oration of George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal (1623)’ in D. McOmish and S. J. Reid (eds) Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland, Brill Studies in Intellectual History, pp. 182-202.
  • 2016 ‘From Foundation to 1700 – Renaissance and Reformation: Part 2’ in P. Davis (ed.) The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves, The Friends of the University of Glasgow Library, pp. 24-33.
  • 2016 ‘The Church Architecture of the Keith Earls Marischal 1560 to 1623’ in J. Geddes (ed.) Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the Dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray, Routledge, pp. 99-120.
  • 2014 ‘Neo-Latin on Tombs: the Case of Benholm’ feature for Bridging the Continental Divide
  • 2013 ‘The End of Bridgwater Castle’, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
    156, pp. 127-134.
  • 2012 ‘The Jews’ Churchyard, Bridgwater’, Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
    155, pp. 202-204.

Book Reviews:

  • 2021 ‘B. Rhodes, Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520–1580’, in Journal of British Studies 60:2.
  • 2019 ‘A. Bellany and T. Cogswell, The Murder of King James I’, in Scottish Historical Review 98:1.
  • 2018 ‘J. Wormald, Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure, with fore and after words by Anna Groundwater’, in Innes Review 69:1.
  • 2017 ‘S. Fraser, The Prince who would be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart’, in History Scotland Magazine.
  • 2017 ‘S. M. Holmes, Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland: Interpreting Worship, 1488-1590’, in Journal of the British Archaeological
    Association
    170.1.
  • 2016 ‘D. Sivier, Bridgwater: Personality, Place and the Built Environment: From its Anglo-Saxon origins to the 17th century’, in Proceedings
    of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
    159.
  • 2015 ‘M. M. Meikle, The Scottish People 1490–1625’, in Women’s History Review 24.4.
  • 2014 ‘A. Blakeway, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland’, in History Scotland Magazine.
  • 2013 ‘P. Anderson, The Stewart Earls of Orkney’, in Scottish Historical Review 92:235.
  • 2013 ‘A. L. Forbes, Trials and Triumphs: The Gordons of Huntly in Sixteenth-Century Scotland’, in Scottish Historical Review 92:233.

General Interest & Public History Publications

  • 2025 (forthcoming) General-at-Sea Robert Blake, Bridgwater & District Civic Society.
  • 2023 with Brian Smedley, Bridgwater Visitor Guide and Map (A Cycling Guide)
  • 2023 On the Dogwatch Podcast.
  • 2022 with Tony Woolrich and Brian Smedley, Bridgwater History Guide, Bridgwater Town Council.
  • 2022 Editor of Bernice Lashbrook’s Critters of the Wembdon Road Cemetery, Friends of the Wembdon Road Cemetery.
  • 2021 ‘Keith Marischal, East Lothian’, Current Archaeology 372 (February edition).
  • 2020 with Roy Cheek and Brian Smedley, Bridgwater Tree Guide, Bridgwater Town Council.
  • 2019 Bridgwater and the First World War, Friends of the Wembdon Road Cemetery.
  • 2017 ‘Kindred, Status and Society in Lowland Scotland’ in Charles Edward Lynch, Romilly Squire and George Way, The Scottish Clan and Family History Encyclopaedia, St Kilda (Holdings) Ltd.
  • 2017 Wembdon: Church, Village and Parish, St George’s Parish Church & the Bridgwater Heritage Group.
  • 2016 A Walk in the Wembdon Road Cemetery, Friends of the Wembdon Road Cemetery, Bridgwater Town Council, and Sedgemoor District Council.
  • 2015 Contributor to Stuckey, J., Bridgwater Blue Plaques Guide, Bridgwater & District Civic Society.
  • 2014 ‘Keith Marischal House and Policies: The House up to the 17th Century’, The Pleasaunce: The Garden History Society in Scotland (August edition).
  • 2010 with Cattermole, P. and others, Bridgwater Town Trails, Bridgwater Town Council.

Miles Kerr-Peterson Bibliography updated 19 June 2022