In 1976, he changed his name by
deed poll to Peter Bander van Duren, adding a slight alteration of his mother's
maiden name, von Duren, to his father's surname.
Bander van Duren worked as a teacher in a
borstal, a prison for youth, and in Edith Cavell School, a secondary school in a deprived part of
Islington, and then taught Religious & Moral Education at Wall Hall Callege, Cambridge Institute of Education, a teachers' training college in Aldenham, Herts. In 1966 he became co-founder and joint-Managing Director of
Colin Smythe, a small British
publishing house.
(editor) Looking Forward to the Seventies: A Blueprint for Education (Colin Smythe, 1968)
ISBN978-0-900675-08-9
The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille (Colin Smythe, 1969, reprinted 2005)
ISBN978-0-86140-461-2
Carry on Talking. How Dead are the Voices? (Colin Smythe, 1972)
ISBN978-0-900675-66-9 [US edition titled Voices from the Tapes: Recordings from the Other World (Drake Publishers, 1973)]
Editor of Bruno Bernard Heim, Armorial Bruno B. Heim (Van Duren Publishers, 1981)
ISBN978-0-905715-16-2
Editor of H.E.Cardinale, Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See (3rd edition, Van Duren Publishers, 1985)
ISBN978-0-905715-26-1
Editor of Jacques Martin, Heraldry in the Vatican / L'Araldica in Vaticano / Heraldik im Vatikan (Van Duren Publishers, 1987)
ISBN978-0-905715-25-4