a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Andrew Flinn
Department of Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
U.K.

I am a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Archives and Records Management (ARM) and Records and Archive Management (International) (RAMI) programmes in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL).

My main areas of interest include:

• community archives & memories, diversity and democratising heritage;
• archives & public history
• widening access to cultural heritage & the impact of archives and heritage on identity;
• the identification of users and non-users of archival services;
• the impact of Freedom of Information and other information legislation on access to records;
• grassroots political activity and heritage;
• international co-operation and issues around migrated or displaced archives;
• the records of migrants, refugees and exiles;
• oral testimony and archives.

I am happy to supervise students in any of the above or related areas. At present I supervise doctoral students researching digital recordkeeping in Uganda, archival issues surrounding Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and archival and cultural property questions relating to indigenous and First Nation heritage.

I am also a research active historian, specialising in twentieth century British and South African social and political history. I am particularly interested in issues relating to political activism and the participation of specific groups, women, young people and ethnic minorities, in political and industrial organisations. My PhD explored working-class politics in South East Lancashire in the 1930s (University of Manchester, 1999). I worked on an ESRC project on the prosopography of British Communism (Communists in British Society Morgan, Cohen and Flinn, London 2007) and then on another ESRC project investigating patterns of membership and activism within the post-war Labour Party in south-east London. I am also looking at the archives of South African exiles and the connections between British and South African labour movements in the 20th century.

I also teach (jointly with Dr Mary Hilson) the history course SCAN 7309 The Formation of European Labour Movements, 1870-1918