Peter Heather

Peter Heather
Peter Heather near King’s College Campus before taking a Santander Bike, February 2024
Born	(1960-06-08) 8 June 1960 (age 64) Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Academic background
Education	Maidstone Grammar School New College, Oxford
Thesis	The Goths and the Balkans (1987)
Academic advisors	John Matthews James Howard-Johnston
Influences	Edward Gibbon E. A. Thompson
Academic work
Discipline	History
School or tradition	Oxford School
Institutions	Worcester College, Oxford Yale University University College London King's College London
Main interests	Late Antiquity

Peter John Heather (born 8 June 1960) is a British historian of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Heather is Chair of the Medieval History Department and Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He specialises in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Goths, on which he for decades has been considered the world's leading authority.^[1]