Trevor Lummis

Trevor Lummis (25 August 1930 – 23 September 2013) was an English writer and historian. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Oral History Society and held an Honorary Fellowship in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex.

Early occupation and education He spent ten years as an Able Seaman in the Merchant Navy, before resuming studies as a mature student at the New Battle Abbey College; he subsequently graduated from the University of Edinburgh, University of London and University of Essex. He specialised in 19th and 20th century social and oral history.

Drew University listed Lummis among their faculty in 2011.

Personal life He was married to Sandra from 1971 until his death. Re-issued as: Life and Death in Eden:Pitcairn Island and the Bounty mutineers. Victor Gollancz, London. 1999. Life and Death in Eden:Pitcairn Island and the Bounty mutineers. Orion Books, Phoenix Paperback, London. 2000. Life and Death in Eden: Pitcairn Island and the Bounty mutineers. Victor Gollancz. London. 1999. Life and Death in Eden: Pitcairn Island and the Bounty mutineers. Orion Books, Phoenix Paperback. London. 2000. and in translation. Italian. L’Ultimo uomo del Bounty. Piemme. 2000. Dutch. Leven en dood in het paradijs. Uitgeverij Atlas. 2001. The Labour Aristocracy 1851-1914. Scholar Press. 1994. The Woman's Domain. Co-author Jan Marsh. Viking/National Trust. 1990. Listening to History: the authenticity of oral evidence, Hutchinson. 1987; also Barnes and Noble Books. New Jersey. USA, 1988. Occupation and Society: the East Anglian fishermen 1880-1914, Cambridge University Press. 1985. Living the Fishing. With Paul Thompson and Tony Wailey. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1983.

Articles and essays. Structure and Validity in Oral Evidence, The Oral History Reader (eds) Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, Routledge. 1998 Oral History Reprinted in Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments, Richard Bauman (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1992. Oral History, International Encyclopaedia of Communications, Erik Barnouw (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1986. Contributor to the Open University's East Anglian Studies Resource Pack, and presenter of the Oral History Cassette which is part of it. 1984 The Historical Dimension of Fatherhood: a case study 1890-1914, in L. McKee and M. O'Brien (eds), The Father Figure, Tavistock, 1982 Structure and Validity in Oral Evidence, International Journal of Oral History, June, 1981, U.S.A. The Class Perceptions of East Anglian Fishermen: an historical dimension through oral evidence, British Journal of Sociology, March, 1979 Historical Data and the Social Sciences, Open University Cassettes, D301.06 to D301.11, 1974. Charles Booth: Social Scientist or Moralist?, Economic History Review, February, 1971.

Distinctions 1982-86 Honorary Treasurer of the Oral History Society. 1984-86 Honorary Fellow of the Department of Sociology, University of Essex.