Dr Peter Good BA (Hons), MA, PhD, PGCertHE, FRHistS, FHEA

Lecturer in History

Peter’s work examines a range of topics relating to the Early Modern Indian Ocean, especially relating to the Safavid Empire, Persian Gulf and European East India Companies. His past research has examined the relationship between the English/British East India Company and Safavid Persia in the 18th Century. His research has particularly focussed on placing a “Persian voice” in the history of the British presence in the Gulf and beyond. More recently, his work has centred the experience of the non-Europeans who worked for European companies around the Indian Ocean, alongside how Europeans adopted local practices of sociability and patronage, especially drinking Persian wine.

Peter is happy to provide supervision on topics relating to the Early Modern Indian Ocean, Iran and the Gulf, in addition to topics covering the East India Company.

History

History

Awards
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2023
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/British Academy Postdoctoral Grant and Kakenhi Grant, 2023-24
  • Honorary Fellowship at the University of Kent, 2022
  • Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching, Royal Historical Society, 2022
  • Combined Doctoral Award AHRC, 2013
  • Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2017 - 2018
  • I.B. Tauris Publishers Prize for Post-Classical History - best presentation on Iranian history after the arrival of Islam, 2017
  • Convenor: ‘The Translator Made Corporeal Conference’, British Library, London. International conference exploring the place of the translator in the transmission and creation of literary and historical knowledge, 2017
  • Convenor: ‘Global Voices in the Archive Conference’, British Library, London. International conference exploring the stories of foreign or subaltern groups within the collections of the British Library, 2016

Research / Scholarly interests
  • British-Iranian Relations.
  • The East India Company.
  • Safavid Iran.
  • Diplomatic History and Culture.
  • Material Culture of the Indian Ocean.

Recent publications

Monographs/Books

  • The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century, (I.B. Tauris, 2022) ISBN: 9781350152281

Journal Articles

  • Peter Good (2019) The East India Company’s Farmān, 1622 - 1747, Iranian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2019.1574208
  • Co-Editor and Contributor: Transcultural Encounters Between Early Modern England and the Islamic Worlds, Renaissance Studies, 2023. ‘Merchants, Mediators and Mannerly Conduct: The East India Company and Local Intermediaries in the Early Modern Persian Gulf and Red Sea 1600 -1750, Accepted by Renaissance Studies, 2023
  • Cross Cultural Violence and its Restraints, under review by Itinerario, 2024 “Writing Cooperation: The use and terms of Farmans in Persia and Mocha 1700 - 1750”
  • ‘Legacies of Hormuz: Cooperation and Memory in the East India Company’s Relationship with Persia in the 18th Century’ prepared for publication in the special issue “Hormuz 1622” ed. Edmund Herzig and Ladan Niayesh, accepted by Renaissance Studies, 2024

Book Chapters

  • “The East India Company and the Foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734 - 1747”, in The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia, ed. Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert(Amsterdam University Press, December 2018)