Tim Lovering

Research Fellow on the AHRC funded resource enhancement project Wars of Liberation, Wars of Decolonisation: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project. 

Email: Timothy.Lovering@uwe.ac.uk

Qualifications

B.A. (Hons) in History (Stirling)
M.Sc. in Information Management and Preservation (Archives and Records Management) (Glasgow)
Ph.D. in History (Stirling)

Research Interests

I am currently part of a team working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council Resource Enhancement project to create a catalogue, searchable database and guide to the extensive archive of the Rhodesian Army Association. This unique collection of formerly classified papers is housed at the Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol.  The project is due for completion in 2009.

I completed a PhD on the experience of Malawian soldiers in Britain’s colonial armed forces in 2002.  I have strong interests both in the modern social history of Anglophone Central Africa, and in the history of armed forces in colonial and postcolonial settings.  I am particularly concerned with the relationships between military identities, race, and gender.

In addition to my research interests, I am a trained archivist, and since 2002 I have worked in higher education, local government, and business archives.  In these roles, I have catalogued a large number of collections, and have engaged in a wide range of other activities which take place in a modern archive.

Teaching interests

I have no current teaching responsibilities.  I have teaching specialisations in African history, British imperial history, and in the use and interpretation of archival sources.

Publications

Timothy J. Lovering, ‘Military service, nationalism and race: the experience of Malawians in the Second World War’, in The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from the South, ed. by Ravi Ahuja and others, Studies in Global History (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2008).

Timothy J. Lovering, ‘Sol Plaatje’, ‘Turbott Wolfe’, ‘Bessie Head’, ‘The House of Hunger‘, ‘ A Dry White Season‘, ‘Nervous Conditions‘, and ‘Nadine Gordimer’, in The Little Black Book: Books, ed. by Lucy Daniel (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007).

Timothy J. Lovering, ‘Military Music in Colonial Nyasaland (Malawi)’, Journal of the International Military Music Society, 25, 2 (July 2003).

John McCracken, Timothy J. Lovering, and Fiona Johnson Chalamanda (eds.), Twentieth Century Malawi: Perspectives on History and Culture (Stirling: Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, 2001) (Published in Malawi by Kachere Press).

Timothy J. Lovering, ‘African Women and the Colonial Army in Nyasaland’ in Twentieth Century Malawi: Perspectives on History and Culture (see above).

Selected conference and seminar papers

‘The Social History of Malawian Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army’, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 12 July 2006.

‘Perceptions of Soldiers and Soldiering in Colonial Nyasaland’, African History Seminar, Department of Oriental and African Studies, 30 April 2003.

‘African Soldiers and Dissent in the Colonial Army in Nyasaland (Malawi)’, Conference on Historical and Social Science Research in Malawi, University of Malawi, 28 June 2000.

‘Women and the Colonial Army in Malawi’, Symposium on modern Malawi, University of Stirling, 6 December 1999.

‘Problems of doing research in African history’, Colonial/Postcolonial Studies Workshop, University of Stirling, 29 September 1999.