D. P. Kirby

David Peter Kirby is a British historian and author, best known for writing about Anglo-Saxon history.

Biography David Peter Kirby was born in the United Kingdom in 1936. He was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1962 to 1966, followed by lecturing and then leading to a professorship of history at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1993 to 1996.

Writing Kirby's published works include: The Making of Early England. Schocken Books, 1967. Saint Wilfrid at Hexham, ed. Oriel Press, 1974. The Earliest English Kings. Unwin Hyman, 1991. A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales, edited with Ann Williams and Alfred P. Smyth. Routledge, 1991. History and Tradition in Britain in the Early Middle Ages. 1996. Marvels, Magic and Witchcraft in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Summerfield Press, 2005. Days of Joy: Robert Hird at Home in Bedale. Summerfield Press, 2009.