Miles Kerr-Peterson is an author and historian.
Career After study at Bridgwater College,History at Bridgwater College 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.Thomas Brochard, "Review", Northern Scotland, 11:2 (2020). Allan Kennedy, "Review", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71:4 (2020), 862. Kerr–Peterson has edited financial records concerning the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark for publication by the Scottish History Society.Andrew Lind, "Review", Studia Celtica Fennica, XVII (2020–2021), 4–7Nathan Martin, "Review", Seventeenth-Century News, 79 (Spring/Summer 2021), pp. 49–50Chris Langley, "Review", Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 41:2 (2021). He also researched Keith Marischal House in East Lothian and its chapel with archaeologists and the Castle Studies Trust."Keith Marischal: searching for a lost castle and Renaissance palace", Current Archaeology, 372, February, 2021Keith Marischal, Castle Studie Trust
Kerr-Peterson edited a volume of the collected essays of the historian Jenny Wormald.Amy Saunders, "Review", Royal Studies Journal, 9:2 (2022). 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.Charlie Lynch, "Remembering St Kilda through one woman's rediscovered essays", The National, 16 December 2025.
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.
References
External links Miles Kerr–Peterson, "Politics and protestant Lordship in North East Scotland during the reign of James VI: The life of George Keith, fourth Earl Marischal, 1554–1623", University of Glasgow PhD thesis, 2016 Miles Kerr-Peterson discusses the archaeology of Keith Marischal House Scottish History: Miles Kerr-Peterson