Peter Sawyer (historian)

Sawyer was born in Oxford, England, on 25 June 1928, the son of Grace Woodbridge and Bill Sawyer, a tobacconist. He retired early from Leeds in 1982 and was subsequently (in 1998) given the title emeritus professor. Sawyer continued his teaching and research at University of Gothenburg as a docent, and had various stints as a visiting professor in the United States: at the University of Minnesota from 1966 to 1967 and then again in 1984, and at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. He died in Uppsala, aged 90, in July 2018. ==Works==

• • • (Subsequently digitised and revised as The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, first published 2010) • • • • • • • • == See also ==