Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1828-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
53 volumes and boxes
Scope and content
King's College London Council minutes and agenda books, 1828-1996, include a record of College business from the first public declaration of an intention to found King's College London in 1828 through to 1996, comprising signed manuscript minute books with indexes, 1828-1947; typescript signed minutes with indexes, 1947-1980; typescript unsigned minutes and associated papers, 1980-1996; rough minute books, 1829-1845; microfilm copies of Council minutes, 1828-1875; annotated Council agenda books, 1845-1980. Early minutes detail all aspects of College business, but are especially strong on staff appointments, fellowships, awards and prizes, and teaching in specific departments including King's College Hospital, before thinning out during the 1890s. Since the reunification of the College in 1980, they include strategic planning and mergers, the work of the most important College committees, the place of King's within the framework of Higher Education and, in particular, College finances, and include copies of letters, circulars, and other relevant inserts and enclosures, and from 1947, the minutes of the Joint Meeting of the Council and Theological Committee.
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
Arranged in bound volumes in chronological order, usually incorporating several academic years in each volume.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Council was the principal governing body of King's College London between its foundation in 1829 and the reorganisation of King's that took place with the King's College London (Transfer) Act of 1908. This both incorporated King's into the University of London (thereafter redesignated as University of London, King's College), and legally separated the Theological Faculty, which retained subscription to the 39 Articles for academic staff and continued to be known as King's College London. The Council remained exclusively as the governing body of the Theological Faculty with additional pastoral responsibility for students and staff of both Colleges, but the government of the secular University of London, King's College, was transferred to a new Delegacy established in February 1910. Both Council and Delegacy also maintained separate Professorial Board, Finance and other committees. Following the reunification of the Colleges by Royal Charter in 1980, responsibility for the government of the whole College was returned to the Council.
Repository
Custodial history
College Secretary's Office.
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
Uploaded finding aid
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Economics of education
- Educational administration
- Educational buildings
- Educational courses
- Educational finance
- Educational governing boards
- Educational grants
- Educational levels
- Educational personnel
- Educational planning
- Educational supervision
- Governing bodies
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Students
- Universities
- University courses
- University governing bodies
- University students
- Personnel
- People by occupation
- People
Place access points
People and Organisations
- King's College School, 1831-1897, Strand (Subject)
- King's College Hospital, London, 1840- (Subject)
- King's College London, 1829- (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
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.