Peter Staveley

Peter Staveley was born in 1949 in Leamington Spa and educated at Rugby School, then South Bank and Southampton Universities respectively. After a career in sales and marketing within the oil and logistics industries and a long-time dabble in genealogy, he took early retirement and moved to Tuscany to focus upon his greatest passion: history. After 50 years of study, he is the archetypal autodidactic historian, with a particular fondness for the medieval period, World War II and, of course, Robin Hood. Outside of this, he enjoys producing his own extra virgin olive oil, travelling, cat-wrangling and improving upon his English longbow archery skills.