Andrew Flinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Flinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Flinn |
| SIGNATURE | FLINN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5356-7460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
History Workshop Around the World Dig Where You Stand and International History From Below Movements
This article introduces the Swedish 'Dig Where You Stand' movement of the 1970s and 1980s as an workers' and community history movement, and then explores Sven Lindqvist's 1978 book Gräv där du står: Hur man utforskar ett job (recently translated for the first time in English as Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job) which acted as a handbook for historical research for the movement. The article then establishes how Lindqvist and the Dig mov…
Documenting resistance, conflict and violence
In recent years, grassroots movements have gained traction and significant numbers globally. Against longer histories of resistance and protest movements’ mobilisation of documentation, mechanisation and digital technologies, this scoping literature review seeks to understand how resistance and social movements have drawn upon the participatory and easily accessible nature of social media and digital platforms to mobilise new generations of activ…
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
Child Social-Care Recording and the Information Rights of Care-Experienced People
Recent reports by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised the critical importance of records throughout the lives of care-experienced people. Records not only contain information about what happened to a person in their past, but also have long-term effects on memory and identity. Research emerging in the context of analogous national inquiries into the systemic abuse and neglect of children in care—particularly the Roy…
Humanizing an inevitability political craft”
Social justice impact of archives
Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain
Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative explanations for the long-term trajectory of party activism in Britain-based on data drawn from the South Lewisham Labour Party-they suggest that the falling supply of individuals prepared to become poli…
Questions of trust (and distrust)
Freedom of Information and records management in local government
Research into the impact of the UK Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 on records management services in public authorities, especially in local government was carried out by the Department of Information Studies at UCL in 2008–2009, funded by the
Information governance, records management, and freedom of information
New frameworks for community engagement in the archive sector
This article uses ethnographic research methods to explore the various forms of engagement between mainstream publicly‐funded archives in the UK and independent ‘community archives’. Shifts in the understanding of the role of archives in society, combined with pressure from historically marginalised groups for greater visibility for their histories, have led mainstream organisations to develop more flexible working practices. These practices cove…
Whose memories, whose archives? Independent community archives, autonomy and the mainstream
Community Histories, Community Archives
This article will examine the community archive movement, exploring its roots, its variety and present developments. It will identify the possible impact on the national archival heritage, particularly on the many gaps and absences in that contemporary heritage, of community archive materials and examine some of the opportunities and challenges that these initiatives present to the mainstream profession.
Introduction
1995;KH, 1998). Leaving aside a number of questionable assumptions underlying this approach (not least that the files can be relied on to reveal unproblematic "facts," which in turn can be pieced together to reveal the "whole" story), some of these institutional histories have tended to generate essentially mechanical and monolithic images of Communist organizations, in which endless disputes regarding the relationship of the center to the periph…
Whose memories, whose archives? Independent community archives, autonomy and the mainstream
Social justice impact of archives
Humanizing an inevitability political craft”
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Freedom of Information and records management in local government
Research into the impact of the UK Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 on records management services in public authorities, especially in local government was carried out by the Department of Information Studies at UCL in 2008–2009, funded by the
Information governance, records management, and freedom of information
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
New frameworks for community engagement in the archive sector
This article uses ethnographic research methods to explore the various forms of engagement between mainstream publicly‐funded archives in the UK and independent ‘community archives’. Shifts in the understanding of the role of archives in society, combined with pressure from historically marginalised groups for greater visibility for their histories, have led mainstream organisations to develop more flexible working practices. These practices cove…
Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain
Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative explanations for the long-term trajectory of party activism in Britain-based on data drawn from the South Lewisham Labour Party-they suggest that the falling supply of individuals prepared to become poli…
Questions of trust (and distrust)
Introduction
1995;KH, 1998). Leaving aside a number of questionable assumptions underlying this approach (not least that the files can be relied on to reveal unproblematic "facts," which in turn can be pieced together to reveal the "whole" story), some of these institutional histories have tended to generate essentially mechanical and monolithic images of Communist organizations, in which endless disputes regarding the relationship of the center to the periph…
Introduction
1995;KH, 1998). Leaving aside a number of questionable assumptions underlying this approach (not least that the files can be relied on to reveal unproblematic "facts," which in turn can be pieced together to reveal the "whole" story), some of these institutional histories have tended to generate essentially mechanical and monolithic images of Communist organizations, in which endless disputes regarding the relationship of the center to the periph…
Community Histories, Community Archives
This article will examine the community archive movement, exploring its roots, its variety and present developments. It will identify the possible impact on the national archival heritage, particularly on the many gaps and absences in that contemporary heritage, of community archive materials and examine some of the opportunities and challenges that these initiatives present to the mainstream profession.
Whose memories, whose archives? Independent community archives, autonomy and the mainstream
Information governance, records management, and freedom of information
New frameworks for community engagement in the archive sector
This article uses ethnographic research methods to explore the various forms of engagement between mainstream publicly‐funded archives in the UK and independent ‘community archives’. Shifts in the understanding of the role of archives in society, combined with pressure from historically marginalised groups for greater visibility for their histories, have led mainstream organisations to develop more flexible working practices. These practices cove…
Questions of trust (and distrust)
Freedom of Information and records management in local government
Research into the impact of the UK Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 on records management services in public authorities, especially in local government was carried out by the Department of Information Studies at UCL in 2008–2009, funded by the
Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain
Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative explanations for the long-term trajectory of party activism in Britain-based on data drawn from the South Lewisham Labour Party-they suggest that the falling supply of individuals prepared to become poli…
Social justice impact of archives
Humanizing an inevitability political craft”
Child Social-Care Recording and the Information Rights of Care-Experienced People
Recent reports by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised the critical importance of records throughout the lives of care-experienced people. Records not only contain information about what happened to a person in their past, but also have long-term effects on memory and identity. Research emerging in the context of analogous national inquiries into the systemic abuse and neglect of children in care—particularly the Roy…
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
Documenting resistance, conflict and violence
In recent years, grassroots movements have gained traction and significant numbers globally. Against longer histories of resistance and protest movements’ mobilisation of documentation, mechanisation and digital technologies, this scoping literature review seeks to understand how resistance and social movements have drawn upon the participatory and easily accessible nature of social media and digital platforms to mobilise new generations of activ…
History Workshop Around the World Dig Where You Stand and International History From Below Movements
This article introduces the Swedish 'Dig Where You Stand' movement of the 1970s and 1980s as an workers' and community history movement, and then explores Sven Lindqvist's 1978 book Gräv där du står: Hur man utforskar ett job (recently translated for the first time in English as Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job) which acted as a handbook for historical research for the movement. The article then establishes how Lindqvist and the Dig mov…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Digital and Traditional Archives Management (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)