About Lorraine Tinsley

Lorraine Tinsley is a Canadian historian and writer. Her professional career is wide-ranging: she has been a civil servant, an international consultant and an award-winning environmental activist. A lifelong learner, she spent her high school years in Cairo and The Hague, and earned an MA in Public Administration from Carleton University, Ottawa; a Certificate in Sustainable Business Management from Seneca College, Toronto; and an MA in Public History from her alma mater–University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.

Lorraine has lived, worked and travelled throughout Egypt, Israel and the Middle East, U.S. and Canada, but she left her heart in England, where some of her happiest youthful sojourns were spent exploring London's East End–her parents' birthplace.

Her longstanding interest in the life and works of T.E. Lawrence was inspired by her travels in his footsteps in Egypt, Israel and Jordan. An 'Old Girl' of the T.E. Lawrence Society, she has written and spoken on Lawrence and his circle for the Society, and for the National WWI Museum in Kansas City, the East Hampton Library in New York, and Magdalen College Archives in Oxford.

Today she is a passionate advocate for sustainable heritage conservation, and a writer on local history.