Peter Moore is a writer, historian and critic. Born in Staffordshire in the early eighties, he was educated at Durham University and City, University of London. He now teaches on the Mst in Creative Writing at Oxford University.
Peter is the author of five works of history, mostly set in Enlightenment Britain. The Weather Experiment (2015) and Endeavour (2018) were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers and chosen as multiple books of the year in the UK and USA. These were followed by Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, a group biography charting Britain’s role in the ideological development of the United States. His most recent book, A Dangerous Game: Thomas Cochrane’s Life on the Edge (2026), is a major new biography of the naval hero, political radical and adventurer Thomas Cochrane, whose extraordinary life inspired some of fiction’s greatest seafaring characters. Drawing on newly uncovered materials, it traces Cochrane’s exploits from the Napoleonic Wars and Westminster politics to the independence movements of South America.
Peter was a 2014 Gladstone Library writer in residence and a 2016 Winston Churchill Fellow. He reviews regularly for The Literary Review and his journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and on the BBC.
In 2019 he founded the history podcast Travels Through Time, which has since had more than a million downloads and has been chosen by the Guardian as one of their ‘five best podcasts for the curious-minded.’
