Peter Gaunt is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Chester and President of The Cromwell Association. He is a specialist in the history of England and Britain in the mid-17th century, including both the military history of the civil wars and the political and constitutional history of the post-war regimes - especially the Cromwellian Protectorate; the latter was the subject of his Doctorate, which was awarded by the University of Exeter. He has written and published extensively in these fields - including more than a dozen books as author and editor - and more than 50 chapters, articles and shorter papers. His books include two different biographies of Oliver Cromwell, an edition of Henry Cromwell's correspondence and full-length military (or wider) studies of the civil war(s) in Wales, in England and Wales, and in Britain and Ireland as a whole. With the late Professor Barry Coward, he was also co-editor of English Historical Documents, 1603-60.
