Kevin's main interests are the history, archaeology, Museums and medical history of London.

He has worked in the Museum world since 1976. First at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, then as a archaeologist including at the Museum of London (1977-84). He was an Assistant Keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1984-1987. Since 1987 Kevin has worked freelance as a consultant in many museums, lecturing on the history and archaeology of London and directed the transformation of the Old Operating Theatre Museum since 1992.

He has been proprietor of 'And Did Those Feet' (Cultural Heritage Resources) since 1982. It has allowed him the opportunity of working in a variety of fields in the Heritage world. He is currently Director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum in Southwark; Associate Lecturer at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, at Worcester University, and honorary lecturer at University College London (UCL). He is Course Director for the Exploritas programme in London which is a charity which for which Kevin organises study tours. lectures and walks on the history, archaeology architecture and art of London (and elsewhere).

Kevin passed his Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching In Higher Education at CLTAD at the University of the Arts, London in 2007. The Old Operating Theatre Museum won the 2007 Museum and Heritage Award for excellence in the Best Project on a Limited budget category. He is part of the course team that created the innovative MA 'Creative Practice in Narrative Environments' at Central Saint Martins.

Kevin has written several books, web sites and interactive discs including:

Flude, Kevin 'In Their Own Words - A Literary Companion To The Origins Of London' D A Horizons, 2009

Flude, Kevin 'Divorced, Beheaded, Died ...the History Of Britain's Kings And Queen' Michael O'mara Books, 2009

Flude, Kevin 'Citisights Guide To London' Virgin Books, 1990

Further Details

He is a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologist (1985), and the Association for Heritage Interpretation (2006). He is a mentor for the Museum Association's AMA scheme,

He was a founding committee member of the London Museum's Group, and a member of the Renaissance Hub Program management group. He has also been a member of the Institute of Information Scientists and the Writer's Guild; chair of AMSSEE's documentation Panel for 3 years; director of Southwark Heritage; member of the steering committee for the Pool of London Business Improvement District; chair of the London Museums of Health and Medicine; and a member of the London Museums Hub Advisory Committee.

Educated at Woking Grammar School, he attended University at Leicester where he studied Archaeology and Ancient History. He worked as an archaeomagnetist for the Reseach Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford between 1975 and 1977, co-authoring several papers published in Nature. He then moved to London to work as an archaeologist at the Museum of London, before moving as Assistant Keeper to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Following an offer to write a series of interactive City histories, Kevin went freelance running both Cultural Heritage Resources and Cultural Heritage Information Consultants. The former dealing with Study Tours and Museum Management and the later with Information Technology and Museums.

Archaeological Experience:

Kevin has excavated widely in Britain and Europe, including Neuchatel, Switzerland and Ferrara, Italy. In Britain he excavated at Petter's Field, Egham, Spong Hill, Grendon, Holme Pierpoint, Nottingham, Oxford and extensively in London.  He lectures on museum studies, archaeology and the history of London.

Museum Experience:

Kevin has worked for Museums since 1977. Museum of London (77-84) V&A (84-87), as a consultant (87-07), and has directed the transformation of the Old Operating Theatre Museum since 1992. Between 1998 and the end of 2001 Kevin managed the Brunel Engine House, and between 1997 and 2000 looked after the collection at the Museum of Garden History. He lectures on Museum Studies (see below).

Consultancy:

Kevin Flude has provided professional museum consultancy in Information Technology, documentation, museum management, feasibility studies, cataloguing and project management. With Bryan Alvey Kevin has acted as consultant to the Museums and Galleries Commision, and the South Eastern Museums Service. Clients have included:

Anddidthosefeet - my blog click here

Demonstrating 19th Century Surgery at the Old Operating Theatre Museum

Central St Martin's Students

Kevin and exploritas travellers

Kevin Flude has lectured on the history and archaeology of London since 1982 for the LSE exploritas programme at Rosebery Hall.  In 1992 he became Course Director and has continued organising courses for elderhostel (now renamed Exploritas).

The following are the courses (of one week duration or more) he has given:

• The History of London
• The Architecture of London
• The Museums and Galleries of London
• History and Development of Museums
• Digitisation and Museums
• The Art of London
• Roman London
• Medieval London
• Literary London
• Chaucer's London
• Shakespeare's London
• Pepys' London
• Hogarth's London
• Georgian London
• Dickens London
• London during the Blitz
• Chelsea and Hampstead
• British Archaeology - From Stonehenge to the Age of Arthur
• The Story of England from Boudicca to Elizabeth II
• London and the Detective Novel
• Monarchy - Parliament, the People and the Monarchy
• Darwin and Evolution - anniversary tour
• Adriatic and Aegean Cruise Lecturer

In addition to the above courses Kevin has given individual lectures on:

• Roman and Celts
• Romans as Rulers
• Everyday Life in a Roman Province
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The development of the Theatre from Roman Times to the Globe
• The English Manor House
• An Introduction to Medical History
• St. Thomas's Hospital Through the Ages
• Medieval Medicine
• Shakespeare, his son-in-law and Tudor medicine
• The Sawbones, and the Body Snatchers
• Victorian Surgery
• Dickens and the Victorian Christmas
• Dickens and the City of London
• Keats and Medicine
• Narrative and Museums
• Social Networking Web Sites and Museums

Kevin has given walks and tours for the above topics and:

• The Complete History of London Walk
• Myths and Legends of London
• The origins of London
• Dark Age London
• Saxon London
• Norman London
• The First London Mayor
• Whittington and Chaucer's London
• The Peasants Revolt Walk
• Tudor London
• Shakespeare's London
• Pepys' London
• The Great Fire Walk
• The English Civil War Walk
• King Charles 1st Martyrdom Walk
• Radical London
• John Wilkes London
• Daniel Defoe's London
• Dr Johnstone's London
• Wesley's London
• Dickens' London
• Copperfield's London
• Little Dorrit's London
• Sherlock Holmes London
• Modern London
• Poetry Of London Walk
• Literary London Walk
• Lost Rivers of London
• Bermondsey Walk
• Chelsea Walk
• Camden Walk
• City of London Walk
• Covent Garden
• Docklands
• Fleet Street Walk
• Hackney Walk
• Hampstead Walk
• Holborn Walk
• Hoxton Walk
• Riverside Walk (Hammersmith to Chiswick)
• New River Walk
• Southwark Walk
• South Kensington
• Lost Industries of Southwark
• Rotherhithe Walk
• Westminster Walk
• Wapping Walk
• Wits, Wantons and Wenchers Walk
• Hawksmoor's London
• Wren's London
• The Shakespearean Stage
• Theare History from 1660 to the present day
• David Garrick's London
• Dickens Theatrical London
• Churches of the City of London

He has led tours around the above places and in London:

• British Museum
• Guildhall
• St Bartholomew's Church
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Natural History Museum
• Westminster Abbey
• Banqueting House
• National Gallery
• Tate
• Museum of London
• Museum of Garden History
• The Old Operating Theatre Museum
• Leighton House
• St Paul's Cathedral
• Ham House
• Kenwood
• Keats House
• Freud Museum
• Wallace Collection
• Sir John Soane Museum

And further abroad:

• Bath
• St Albans
• Canterbury
• Fishbourne
• Butser Ancient Farm
• Colchester
• Oxford
• Dorchester
• Stonehenge
• Avebury
• Maiden Castle
• South Cadbury
• Tintagel
• Glastonbury

Web Page Design/Production /Consultancy

Kevin and his business partner Bryan Alvey have created the following web sites.

Museum of Garden History (www.museumgardenhistory.org)
Awarded a Carnegie Award for Innovation in Information Technology.

The Old Operating Theatre Museum
Funded by the DfEE. Site uses 360 Degree Panoramas

The Brunel Engine House

Silk Road Tours
Stunning site for a tourist company

Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

European Journeys

National Fisheries Heritage Centre
Consultancy Report on Web site design

Seminars for London Museum Agency
Lecturer on web site design for small museums

Is anyone still here? ('Dum Spiro, Spero') Congratulations - send me an email to let me know! (it gets sillier from here down).

Transmitte me sursum caledoni

Sayings that may apply

I suspect that my main motto should be 'Ad captandum vulgus - 'I'd prefer to think it was 'Carpe Diem' but I singularly fail to do that most of the time and more likely it is 'Alea iacta est'. As Churchill said: 'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm'

Pet Hates

I hate academics who toss in foreign quotations and then don't translate them, but you'll have to take this 'cum grano salis'!

Family

Kevin has 2 children, Connie (21) and Hetty (18) - they are my magnum opus and, educationally, have surpassed me. Connie has been doing some fantastically brave work in Uganda trying to stop the horrific sacrifice of children.  Poppy Singer is a renowned Textile Conservator and is also my wife and mother of the two girls (Omnia vincit amor).  We all live, pro tempore, in Hackney, in what the Tourist Board call the 'East End'.

Ok, 'Mea Culpa':

'Vox Populi, Vox Dei!' (the voice of the people is the voice of God)

'Dum Spiro, Spero' (while I breathe, I hope)

'Ad captandum vulgus' (to appeal to the crowd)

'Carpe Diem' (sieze the day)

'Alea iacta est' (the die is cast).

'Cum grano salis' (with a grain of salt)

'Mea Culpa' (my fault)

'Magnum opus' (great work or masterpiece)

'Omnia vincit amor' (Love Conquers All) but does it?

'Pro tempore' (for the time being)

Transmitte me sursum caledoni (Beam me up,Scotty). (courtesy of Lucie Follett)

Museum of London Staff Card (c. 1984)

On Saturday, Jan 5th it'll be A History of London in Verse and Poetry . It'll go from St Pauls Tube Exit 2 at 10.45 am.

Recently published 'Divorced, Beheaded, Died' by Kevin Flude The history of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunk

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