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Tim Bullamore
Tim Bullamore is an obituary writer, newspaper sub-editor and magazine editor based in Bath, UK. His work has appeared in major British newspapers, including The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Independent and The Guardian.

Bullamore specialises in the obituaries of classical musicians for the Daily Telegraph in London, a newspaper famous for its entertaining treatment of obituary subjects. He was shortlisted for the British Press Awards in 2002 and won a SPOW award in 2007. He has given entertaining lectures on the art of obituary writing at Columbia University, New York, Haverford College, Philadelphia, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and City University, London.

In 2002 he was shortlisted for the British Press Awards’ specialist writer of the year for his obituary writing for The Times, and in 2007 he won a major award from the Society of Professional Obituary Writers for his work in the Daily Telegraph.

Journalism Work
After a period working as an agent for classical musicians in London, Tim took up journalism in the early 1990s. For the rest of that decade he worked for The Bath Chronicle in his adopted home town while contributing to national newspapers. He turned freelance in 1999, the year in which his first book Fifty Festivals: the History of the Bath International Music Festival (with a foreword by Jonathan Dimbleby) was published. Since then has contributed to the Peterborough diary column on The Daily Telegraph, written for Classic CD magazine, been heard on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3 and written obituaries for The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian and the Daily Express. He is also a regular sub-editor at The Times, helping to produce both the Arts and the News pages.

Political Work
For ten years (2000-10) Tim was chair of governors at one of the leading primary schools in Bath. He was also a city councillor for eight years and stood for Parliament in Gloucester City in 2001. He holds an MBA from the University of Bath and has undertaken postgraduate research into the art of obituary writing at the University of Cardiff.

Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine and Jane Austen Lectures
In 2008 he became the owner, publisher and editor of Jane Austen’s Regency World, a hugely successful high-quality bimonthly magazine mailed to fans of the novelist worldwide. He is also your first point of contact for breaking news in the city of Bath.

In August 2008 Tim became the owner, publisher and editor of Jane Austen’s Regency World, a hugely successful high-quality bimonthly magazine mailed to fans of the novelist worldwide. He redesigned and relaunched the publication and now visits Jane Austen groups around the world talking about his work. In 2013 he undertook a ten-lecture tour of Australia. In 2014 he will visit Austen groups in the US, the Netherlands and Russia. Under his ownership the magazine has increased its circulation by almost 50 per cent.