Kevin Brown is Trust Archivist to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Curator of the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum. He set up the hospital archives in 1989 and established the Museum in 1993. He studied history at Hertford College, University of Oxford and qualified as an archivist at University College London.

Kevin has an expertise in the history of health and medicine and has had seven books published on different aspects of the subject, starting off with his biography of Alexander Fleming. . More recently he has published a book on Titanic which takes a different and new approach to the subject showing how the events of one night reveal a society and its attitudes.

He has been invited to give lectures all over the world. He was the first historian and non-scientist to deliver the Andrew J. Moyer Lecture at the United States Department of Agriculture in 2001. He has also been an enrichment lecturer on cruise ships. His audiences of all ages and all levels are varied from universities, schools, after dinner speaking, professional bodies to social clubs.