Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1910]-1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
49 archive boxes
Scope and content
Chelsea Polytechnic/College Pharmacy undergraduate record cards, [1910-1940] (Ref: CDPM/FP1), undergraduate record cards, [1930-1970] (Ref: KDPM/FP2), undergraduate record cards, [1965-1996] (Ref: KDPM/FP), undergraduate withdrawal record cards (Ref: KDPM/FP(W)), undergraduate files, 1989, 1992-1998 (Ref: KDPM/FP), postgraduate record cards, [1965-1994] (Ref: KDPM/FPPG), postgraduate withdrawal record cards (Ref: KDPM/FPPG(W)), postgraduate record cards, [1980-1990] (Ref: KDPM/FPPG2), postgraduate files, 1988-1997 (Ref: KDPM/FPPG), Pharmacy theses/dissertations, 1966-1993 (Ref: KDPM/TH), prize lists and examination results, 1965-1994 (Ref: KDPM administrative series). CDPM/FP1 refers to Apothecary Hall undergraduate students only. The undergraduate record card series covers BPharm degrees. The early record cards give very little information, typically name, address, session, date of qualification and some course marks. Later record cards include name, address, 'A' Level results, course unit marks, degree result and a photograph. Withdrawals typically include the same level of information plus the date of leaving. Records for students who graduated after 1990 and the subsequent file series contain application and enrolment forms, transcript information and correspondence. Postgraduate record cards cover MSc, PhD, ACC, DCC and Community Diploma courses. FPPG2 is divided into subject areas covering MSc Biopharmacy, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Technology and also includes some PhD students for the period 1950-1960. Information given includes date of birth, photograph and which course was passed. Theses/Dissertations are divided into MSc, PhD and miscellaneous. Although the bulk of material is listed under a King's reference the majority are pre-1985 and Chelsea Department of Pharmacy.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
BSc dissertations have been destroyed, in accordance with the King’s record retention schedule.
System of arrangement
Student files are arranged by year of leaving then alphabetically. Theses/Dissertations are arranged alphabetically.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Materia medica and therapeutics were subjects taught from the inception of King's College. A Department of Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics was created in 1901, superseded by the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology in 1954. Pharmacology emerged as an independent department at King's College in 1965. Practical pharmacy classes were held in the Medical Department of King's from around 1871, and from around 1896 in the Chemistry section of the Technical Department at the South-Western Polytechnic (later Chelsea College which merged with King's in 1985), and instruction for the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain commenced in 1922 when the Chelsea School of Pharmacy was opened. Chelsea became the first institution recognised by the University of London to offer a degree in Pharmacy with the first graduate in 1926. The rapid expansion of teaching in pharmacy at Chelsea occasioned the opening of a pharmacognosy laboratory in 1927 and the creation of a separate Department of Pharmacy in 1933. Distinct departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Pharmacy, had emerged by 1957. Post-merger, the Departments of Pharmacology and of Pharmacy were part of the Faculty of Life Sciences, and the Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences Divisions of the School of Life, Basic Medical and Health Sciences from 1991. The Division of Pharmacology and Therapeutics has been part of the School of Biomedical Sciences, and Pharmacy part of the School of Life Sciences, since 1998.
Repository
Custodial history
King's College London Department of Pharmacy
Conditions governing access
Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.
Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.
Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
Detailed lists are available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Chelsea Polytechnic, 1922-1956 (Subject)
- Chelsea College Department of Pharmacy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Sources: King's College London catalogues; H Silver and S J Teague eds, Chelsea College - A History (London, 1977). Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.