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Tim Boatswain Professor of Anthropology & History

timboatswain@hotmail.com

Chairman of TMC Academy, Singapore

Chairman British University College, Myanmar

Chairman of Blue Plaques St Albans

Chairman of Conservation 50

Chairman of Boatswain Lighting Ltd

Publicity Co-ordinator for SAHAAS

Welcome to Anthropology and History, a unique blog here for you to explore. Anthropology and History has added such value to my life, and I love having the opportunity to share my passions and thoughts with my loyal readers. Read on, and enjoy.

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Tim Boatswain

Jun 8, 20202 min read

City Centre Vision

There is no doubt about the importance of city centres. Although city centres cover less than 0.1 per cent of the land they provide...

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Tim Boatswain

Jun 2, 20201 min read

The Nature of Evil Talk on Zoom

Tim Boatswain gives a talk on the Nature of Evil. Fees have gone to Conservation 50 - a built environmental group for the conservation of...

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The Nature of Evil Conversation with Nick Hazell of Radio Verulam

Tim Boatswain

Jun 1, 20201 min read

The Nature of Evil Conversation with Nick Hazell of Radio Verulam

Tim Boatswain discusses in a podcast with Nick Hazell of Radio Verulam The Nature of Evil. https://www.radioverulam.com/podcast/the-natur...

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Tim Boatswain

May 31, 20202 min read

Human Cultural Evolution Curbs Violence

In a recent talk I gave on The Nature of Evil I quoted the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbs, who said, Nothing is right and nothing...

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Tim Boatswain

May 18, 20201 min read

Anthropology, History and Psychology

Professor Tim Boatswain Anthropologist and Dr Florian Ruths, Psychiatrist, discuss the interface between history, culture and individual...

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Tim Boatswain

May 15, 20204 min read

Democracy and Coronavirus

Back in April I wrote a piece which was trying to explain the current rise of nationalist and popularist governments:...

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Tim Boatswain

May 12, 20203 min read

The End for Humans

The crisis of Coronavirus and the threat that pandemics pose to the human species has made me think about whether Homo sapiens, modern...

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Tim Boatswain

May 7, 20201 min read

VE Day - British & German Conversation

https://youtu.be/w4HgszMEiDA Prof Tim Boatswain and Dr Florian Ruths talk about their view on VE Day, with the conversation ranging from...

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Tim Boatswain

May 4, 20202 min read

Primate Behaviour and Coronavirus Lock-down

Some of you will have been watching on BBC One Chris Packham’s programmes, Primates. It is beautifully filmed and records in an intimate...

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Tim Boatswain

May 3, 20203 min read

VE Day - Victory in Europe

On the 8th of May, the country will be commemorating VE Day - the end of WWII in Europe. It is 75 years ago that Germany unconditionally...

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Tim Boatswain

May 2, 20203 min read

Greening the City and Coronavirus

For the last three years, on behalf of the Civic Society, I have been organising a series of talks for the Council's Planning and...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 24, 20205 min read

Evolutionary Causes of Social Inequality

Inequality has long been a key study for social anthropologists. Across every society, there are issues of hierarchy (class, status and...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 21, 20201 min read

WHAT MAKES US HOW WE ARE?

Tim Boatswain, Professor of Anthropology and History, local resident and Chairman of the St Albans Civic Society talks about how...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20202 min read

Coronavirus, seeds and Samuel Ryder

The environmental crisis has made people realise the value of greening, whether the planting of trees or pollinating plants. The...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20202 min read

Sopwell Lane’s Mediaeval Past

I live on Sopwell Lane and when I look down it, with its mixture of old and new architecture - 16th century buildings like the Goat Inn...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20202 min read

St Albans and the Peasants’ Revolt

Margaret Thatcher studied Chemistry at Oxford. Had she studied history she might have avoided one of the biggest mistakes her government...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20203 min read

Diocletian and St Alban

Some years ago I was invited to give a lecture at Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia. The title of my talk was Emperor Diocletian and...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20203 min read

Anxiety and Coronavirus

Anxiety caused by worry or fear is a significant part of human nature so it is unsurprising that the pandemic of Coved-19 has hugely...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20203 min read

Anxiety, Gender and Coved-19

I recently wrote about Anxiety and Coronavirus where I was giving an anthropologist's explanation (drawing on evolutionary psychology)...

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Tim Boatswain

Apr 19, 20203 min read

Panic Buying and Evolution; an anthropologist’s view

During a recent interview on Radio Verulam I talked about panic buying. As an anthropologist, I was describing how the theory of...

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