BA (Cantab) Archaeology and Anthropology (Social Anthropology) 1st Class MA (Econ.) and Ph.D., Manchester Peter studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge before moving to Manchester University for an MA and PhD in Sociology. Subsequently he taught in Wales at what is now Glynd¿r University, and at Sunderland, both Polytechnic and University. His research has always been interdisciplinary, within the field of social and sociologically-informed history. Peter has published widely on aspects of the personal and social relations of early modern England, as revealed in legal and administrative records English counties. He has written on witchcraft, problems of marriage and family life, the poor law and the care of the mentally ill and disabled. With Gwenda Morgan he has worked on law, crime and punishment in north-east England in the eighteenth century, the transportation of British criminals to the American colonies, and banishment in the British Atlantic world. Increasingly his work is Anglo-American, drawing upon the records of the British North American and Caribbean colonies in the early modern period. He has recently worked on problems of diaspora and identity under conditions of forced migration. He sits on the management committee of the NE England History Institute, and is the Publications Secretary.