Dr Timothy Bottoms is a historian from Cairns, Far North Queensland, where he operates the firm NQ Research Associates.
Born in Kent, he arrived in Australia with his family in 1957, where they settled first in South Australia and then in Albury, New South Wales. A graduate of the University of New England (Diploma of Education / Bachelor of Arts) and Central Queensland University (PhD), he has taught in Aranda communities (Norther Territory) and in Indigenous communities and high schools in North Queensland. He has also worked in association with the Djabugay Rangers, which led to his work Djabugay Country (1999).
After a Visiting Fellowship as Writer in Residence at the National Museum of Australia, he completed Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's Frontier Killing Times (2013).
