Tim Chamberlain

BSc, MA, PhD | FRGS


Curriculum vitae


Dept. of History, Classics & Archaeology

Birkbeck College, University of London



Publications


Forthcoming


Historical Afterword (to 'We Tibetans' by Rinchen Lhamo [1926])


Tim Chamberlain (with Rinchen Lhamo & Louis Magrath King)

'We Tibetans' by Rinchen Lhamo [1926], 100th anniversary edition, 2026


Mountains and Mysticism: Escapism and Authenticity in the Cinematic Exploration of the Himalaya


Tim Chamberlain

Cynthia J. Miller & Sue Matheson (eds.), Adventure! Danger! Romance!: Essays on Explorers and Exploration on Screen, Edinburgh University Press, 2025


Articles & Book Chapters


Far Away Frontiers and Spiritual Sanctuaries: Occidental Escapism in the High Himalaya


Tim Chamberlain

Paul Gilchrist Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway (eds.), Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, Manchester University Press, 2024


The View from the Legation: British Diplomatic Diaries during the Boxer Siege of 1900


Tim Chamberlain

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, vol. 77(1), 2017, pp. 5-28


Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949


Tim Chamberlain

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, vol. 75(1), 2013, pp. 55-76


Edge of Empires


Tim Chamberlain

British Museum Magazine, vol. 66(Spring/Summer), 2010, pp. 50-52


The Elusive Urn


Tim Chamberlain

British Museum Magazine, vol. 52(Summer), 2005, pp. 36-38


Book Reviews


Book Review: A Historical Atlas of Tibet, by Karl E. Ryavec


Tim Chamberlain

LSE Review of Books, 2015



Unpublished Essays


Science and Spies on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, 1913-1922


Tim Chamberlain

World History MA Dissertation, 2014


Samizdat in Czechoslovakia: Communitas and Resistance


Tim Chamberlain

Anthropology BSc Essay, 1996


Waymarks - Personal Blog


Jack Kerouac: Lonesome Traveller in London, 1957


Tim Chamberlain

Beat Scene Press, Chapbook No. 79, 2023


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