After a decade as a professional rock guitarist and teacher, during which time he taught many hundreds of students, Pete Langman retired to read English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. While studying, he worked as a theatre sound engineer on the side, before moving onto an MRes and a PhD in early modern literature. Pete was appointed to a temporary lectureship at Goldsmith, and worked on the Newton Project before being diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2008. Since then he has worked as a writer and editor, specialising in seventeenth-century literature and history, fiction, Parkinson's and music.