Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1909-1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
4 boxes
Scope and content
The records of the Special Committees of the Delegacy of King's College London consist of minutes of a variety of committees, 1910-1955. These include committees on individual departments including Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Evening Classes, Slavonic Studies and Bacteriology and Public Health, notably covering the Engineering Society, departmental reorganisation and equipment, 1910-1950; Refectory Committee, 1918-1931; Fellows Committee, 1924-1954; Committee of Deans, including the calendar, fees, admission of women, student statistics and social activities, 1921-1943; College Dinner/Fellows Dinner/Luncheon Club Committees, 1924-1954; Public Lectures Committee, including notes on the Gilbart Banking Lectures and programmes of public lectures in each department, 1946-1955; the Conversazione Committee, 1932-1954; Men's and Women's Hostel Committees, with some accounts and prospectuses, 1923-1931.
System of arrangement
The records are arranged in a series of bound volumes in a continuous chronological sequence. The volumes are indexed.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Following the King's College (Transfer) Act of 1908, and the legal separation of King's into the secular University of London, King's College, and the Theological King's College London in 1909-1910, the original governing Council of King's College London was replaced by a Delegacy. To it reported a number of sub-committees including the important General/Professorial/Academic Board, and the Finance Committee. The Delegacy also authorised a variety of ad hoc committees required to arrange specific events, oversee appointments and lectureships, and organise the academic activity of specific departments or faculties. The reunification of King's in 1980 brought the committees back under the ultimate control of Council.
Repository
Custodial history
College Secretary's Office, 1981.
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
A detailed catalogue is available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Chemistry education
- Economics of education
- Educational administration
- Educational administrative structure
- Educational associations
- Educational finance
- Educational levels
- Educational organizations
- Educational systems
- Engineering education
- Health education
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Higher science education
- Language instruction
- Lectures (teaching method)
- Science education
- Second language instruction
- Student housing
- Student organizations
- Students
- Student welfare
- Teaching methods
- Universities
- University students
- Womens education
- Women students
Place access points
People and Organisations
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 as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.