Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1990-1992 (Creation)
- 1957 (Creation)
- 1937-1941 (Creation)
- 1929 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes or 0.02m3
Scope and content
Two scrapbooks, 1938-1940, relating to student life at King's College London and at Bristol University during the evacuation of the College there, containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes and Christmas cards; material relating to a 1990 reunion and a special degree presentation ceremony in 1992; bound copies of The King's Engineer , 1937-1941, and the King's College Review , 1937-1941; mounted photographs showing the Engineering finalists, 1940-1941, and the Engineering students returning from a parade to the Daily Herald offices with Reggie [the lion and King's College mascot], 1938, with a medallion presented to Leete for rescuing Reggie from kidnap by Bristol students during a Union Society debate, Nov 1940. Books relating to the history of King's College, namely King's College Engineering Society, 1847-1957 (Private, London, 1957), by William Oswald Skeat, and The Centenary history of King's College London, 1828-1928 , 1929, by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw.
System of arrangement
6 volumes, 1 medal and outsize photographs
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1918; educated Franklyn House School and King's School Ely; Student of Engineering at King's College London, 1937-1941, during which period the College was evacuated to Bristol University.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented by Mr Leete, 1993.
Conditions governing access
Open, 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
Handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive 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 ›
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Communications media
- Educational administrative structure
- Educational associations
- Educational history
- Educational levels
- Educational organizations
- Educational sciences
- Engineering education
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Higher science education
- Newspaper press
- Periodicals
- Press
- Press cuttings
- Publications
- Student organizations
- Students
- Universities
- University students
- Information sciences
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Leete, David L, b 1918 (Subject)
- University of Bristol (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.