Peter Fleming

Peter Fleming (1958 – 21 April 2025) was a professor of medieval history at the University of the West of England. He specialised in the history of migration, urban history and the development of Bristol during the Middle Ages.

Life and career Fleming was born in 1958 to a working class family. He studied at University College Swansea, before being appointed to Bristol Polytechnic (now UWE) in 1987, to develop the History Department's research on teaching on medieval and early modern history.

Selected works Fleming's books include:

Regionalism and Revision: The Crown and Its Provinces in England, 1250–1650 (edited with Anthony Gross and J. R. Lander, Hambledon, 1999) Family and Household in Medieval England (Palgrave, 2001) Gloucestershire's Forgotten Battle: Nibley Green, 1470 (with Michael Wood, Tempus, 2003) Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City, 1000–2001 (with Madge Dresser, Phillimore, 2007) The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar, editor (Bristol Record Society, Vol. 67, 2015)

He is also the author of:

Fleming, Peter (2012). 'Processing Power: Performance, Politics and Place in Early Tudor Bristol' in A. Compton Reeves (ed.), Personalities and Perspectives of Fifteenth-Century England (ACMRS, Tempe, Arizona)