Joy Lumsden
Date of birth: 16.3.1934
Place of birth: London, U K
Place of residence: Kingston, Jamaica
Qualifications:
B.A. Cambridge University, U K, in history and geography (1955)
Ph.D University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica (1988)
Thesis: 'Robert Love and Jamaican Politics, 1889-1914'
Teaching career:
Retired: 2004
UWI, Dept of History: full time 1991-2001; 2004
part time 1980-1989
Wolmer's Girls' School: 1957-91
Kingston College: one term 1956
President, Jamaican Historical Society, 1993-5
Editor, Jamaican Historical Society Bulletin, 1981-92
Favourite novel (I'm re-reading it right now!):
Mihkail Bulgakov - one of the great writers of the 20th century!
Favourite quotations about history:
'The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.'
A. Whitney Brown, U S comedian
'Written history is . . . the fragmentary record of the often inexplicable actions
of inumerable
bewildered human beings, set down and interpreted according
to their own limitations by other human beings, equally bewildered.'
Dame Veronica Wedgewood, historian
