Wilson, Peter

Peter H. Wilson is G. F. Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull where he is also currently History Research Director and Deputy Head of Department.  The Thirty Years War, featured in his Rorotoko interview, was first published in the United Kingdom by Penguin as Europe’s Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War.  His other books include From Reich to Revolution: German History, 1558-1806 (Palgrave, 2004), and (as editor), A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (Blackwell, 2008).  He is currently writing a history of the Holy Roman Empire for Penguin and Harvard University Press.