Timothy Boatswain is Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Luton. His degrees are in archaeology and anthropology. He is a committee member of the Association for Cypriot Greek and Turkish Affairs, which is an academic society dedicated to bringing the two communities together. He regularly gives lectures on the island both in the UK and Cyprus. He is about to publish The Political Culture of Cyprus later this year to join his 3 publications about Cyprus. He is currently writing A Traveller's History of Cyprus. He lives in Bedfordshire.