Peter Stanford

Peter James Stanford (born 23 November 1961) is an English writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His biography of

Stanford married Siobhan Cross, a lawyer, on 11 February 1995; the couple have two children.^[citation needed]

Books

Since leaving the Catholic Herald, Stanford has written several biographies, travelogues and books on religion.^[9]

As well as his biography of

The Extra Mile (2010) is an account of his journey around Britain’s ancient holy shrines. How To Read a Graveyard (2013) is a tour of historic cemeteries in Britain and Continental Europe. The Devil: A Biography (1996),[13] 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need To Know (2010)^[14] and Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle (2015) were all translated into five languages. A collection of newspaper interviews he had done over three decades was published in 2018 as What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, he published a “visible and invisible” history of Angels, and followed it in 2021 with If These Stones Could Talk, a history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland, which he tells through the story of 20 churches, one per century.

Affiliations

Stanford, whose mother had multiple sclerosis,^[15] was chair of Aspire, Britain’s national charity for people with spinal cord injury, from 1991 until 2001 and again from 2005 until 2012.^[2]

In 2002, he joined with family and admirers of Lord Longford to establish the Frank Longford Charitable Trust, better known as

Stanford was a regular visitor to Hindley in prison during the final few years of her life, and agreed with the reports by prison and parole board officials who stated that Hindley was a reformed character who no longer posed a threat to society, and on this basis had qualified for parole.^[17]

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