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Peter Elliott

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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Art, History, Nonfiction

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October 2018

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Peter Elliott has had a lifelong interest in both history and art. Peter was a career lawyer but now devotes his time to researching and writing books with an art history tilt.
His latest book is Looted! The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France. It was released by Pen & Sword Books, UK, in October 2025. It is profiled on looted.com, Books and Publications:

Peter Elliott is the author of five previous books:
Thomas Muir: 'Lad O' Pairts': The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844-1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist. The book is recommended by Kathy Munro, on The Heritage Portal, as an 'even-handed biography full of appeal [which] does not shy away from the points of controversy around Muir’s attitudes and how policies o ...more

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Blog and Review on Thomas Muir: 'Lad O'Pairts'

Journal of Victorian Culture Online, the blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture
'Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934): Victorian Educationist and Mathematician'
March 18, 2021 Peter Elliott

The blog introduces the reader to Muir, the Victorian mathematician and educationist. It also extracts Muir’s racy diary account of the journey he undertook by car from Oudtshoorn to Mossel Bay in Feb Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.86 · 7 ratings · 3 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Constance: One Road to Take really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looted!: The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight months in the Veneto: A story of the endurance and courage of British Liaison Officers with the partisans in the mountains of the Veneto, Italy. 1944-1945 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thomas Muir: ‘Lad O' Pairts’: The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nita Spilhaus: Nita Spilhaus (1878-1967) and her artist friends in the Cape during the early twentieth century 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spilhaus: The Spilhaus family. Five hundred years of history 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looted! - The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars