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.
Two great mysteries of English history – who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, ‘Rufus’, in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for dec...