Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1830-1983 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
458 files
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, minutes, accounts and papers relating to Academic Schools, Faculties and Departments concerning appointments, buildings, bequests, mergers, equipment, finance, scholarships and endowments, courses and examinations, research grants, staff appointments, fees, admissions, students and grants, 1830-1841, 1851-1983, comprising Faculty of Education, 1965-1982; Faculty of Engineering, 1882-1982; Faculty of Medicine, 1923-1930, 1946-1955, 1972-1981; Faculty of Natural Science, 1940-1955, 1969-1975; School of Slavonic Studies, 1915-1937; Faculty of Theology, 1977-1983; Departments of Anatomy, 1900-1913, 1932, 1936-1948, 1966-1981; Arabic, 1894-1904; Architecture, 1890-1914; Arts, 1856-1860, 1897-1917, 1939-1956, 1971-1981; Biochemistry, 1936, 1965-1981; Biological Sciences, 1967-1976, 1983; Biophysics, 1948, 1952, 1962-1982; Botany, 1916-1918, 1923-1936, 1962-1977; Plant Sciences, 1977-1981; Chemical Engineering, 1965; Chemistry, 1897-1918, 1940-1945, 1960-1983; Civil Service Classes, 1892-1918; Classics, 1909-1917, 1970-1982; Commerce, 1872, 1918; Day Training College, 1890-1947; Department for the Training of Teachers, 1914-1939/40; Education Department 1939/40-1952/53; Engineering, 1882-1883, 1890-1980; Civil Engineering, 1977-1983; Mechanical Engineering, 1977-1981; Electrical Engineering, 1978-1981; English, 1840, 1893-1918, 1926, 1931-1934, 1959-1980; Evening Classes, 1896-1916, 1921-1929; French, 1946-1982; Geography, 1951-1953, 1961-1982; Geology, 1896-1918, 1965-1981; German, 1902-1958, 1977-1982; Modern Greek, 1917-1919, 1927, 1945-1946, 1961; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1961-1977; Histology, 1918; History, 1877-1878, 1909-1918, 1938-1948, 1968-1977, 1981; Human Environmental Studies, 1973-1983; Icelandic, 1914; Italian, 1903, 1915-1918; Journalism 1923-1931, 1936-1939, 1944-1946; University of London Board of Laws, 1900-1952, 1971-1983; Mathematics, 1872, 1906, 1969-1982; Medicine, 1834-1837; 1851-1984; Metallurgy 1919; Music, 1962-1981; Natural Science, 1890-1917; School of Oriental Studies, 1895-1917; School of Chinese, 1899-1916; Palaeography 1972-1976; Pharmacology, 1925, 1966-1982; Philosophy, 1965-1966, 1971-1975, 1981; Physics, 1896, 1904-1918, 1926-1982; Physiology, 1891-1919, 1926, 1935-1939, 1949-1981; Economic Science and Statistics, 1851, 1904-1916, 1931; Portuguese, 1913-1924, 1948-1960, 1958-1982; Psychology, 1902-1904, 1914-1917, 1939-1947; Public Health, 1894-1917; Bacteriology, 1898-1902, 1910-1917, 1923-1925; Spanish, 1913-1922, 1937-1952, 1966-1970, 1977-1982; Theology, 1830-1841, 1862, 1864, 1888-1983; War Office Classes, 1916-1925; War Studies, 1959-1981; Zoology, 1905-1914, 1918, 1925, 1965-1970, 1977-1981.
System of arrangement
Files are arranged in series as outlined in scope and content.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Between 1831 and 1988 the role of College Secretary evolved from Secretary to the Principal and Council to become a senior administrative officer of the College. Throughout the period the College Secretary had responsibility for servicing the Council, its main standing and special subcommittees, and the Academic Board. In the 1960s, the post of Academic Registrar was reorganised to reflect the coordinated responsibility for student admission and examinations with the Department.
The College employed four Secretaries between 1828 and 1919: Henry Nelson Coleridge (1828); Henry William Smith (1829-1845); John William Cunningham (1845-1895), and Walter Smith (1895-1919).
Repository
Custodial history
College Secretary's Department
Conditions governing access
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 catalogues are available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Academic standards
- Academic teaching personnel
- Curriculum
- Economics of education
- Educational administration
- Educational fees
- Educational finance
- Educational grants
- Educational levels
- Educational personnel
- Educational quality
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Personnel management
- Recruitment
- Scholarships
- Students
- Teachers
- Universities
- University curriculum
- University students
- Organization and administration
- Personnel
- Health services administration
- People by occupation
- Public administration
- People
- Government
Place access points
People and Organisations
- King's College London Civil Service Department founded 1876 (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Music (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Arabic (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Biology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Botany (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Chemical Engineering (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Chemistry (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Chinese (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Civil Engineering (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Classics (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Day Training (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Economic Science and Statistics (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Education (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Electrical Engineering (Subject)
- King's College London Department of English (Subject)
- King's College London Department of French (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Geography (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Geology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of German (Subject)
- King's College London Department of History (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Human Environmental Studies (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Italian (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Journalism (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Mathematics (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Mechanical Engineering (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Palaeography (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Pharmacology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Philosophy (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Physics (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Physiology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Psychology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Public Health and Bacteriology (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Spanish (Subject)
- King's College London Department of War Studies (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Zoology (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Arts (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Education (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Medicine (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Natural Science (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Subject)
- King's College London School of Slavonic Studies (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Biochemistry (Subject)
- King's College London Department of Anatomy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.