Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1922-1993 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
8 boxes and 2 rolls
Scope and content
The records of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies comprises correspondence, invoices, publications, examination papers, reading lists, lists of lectures and seminars, and posters, 1922-1993. These notably include a copy of The siege of Vienna in 1683 , edited by Frederick Henry Marshall (London, 1922); papers relating to The Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , including proposals for the establishment of the journal, publishing agreements and correspondence with contributors, 1970-1977; carbon copies of bibliographies on theology including early Christianity and on Armenian palaeography, architecture, music and philology, [1970-1980]; exhibition posters celebrating the career of Romanian poet, Mihai Eminescu, [1970-1980]; lists of departmental courses and seminars, 1972-1975; student reading lists, 1973-1975; drafts of sessional exam papers, 1975-1989; correspondence and invoices relating to the purchase of copies of Politics and the Academy: Arnold Toynbee and the Koraes Chair by Richard Clogg, sold in aid of the Burrows Library, King's College London, 1986-1988; correspondence concerning alumni and the European Community ERASMUS and LINGUA programmes for student exchange within Europe, with invoices, funding application forms and supporting materials, 1989-1993; correspondence relating to applications for vacant lectureships, 1990.
System of arrangement
Boxed in a broadly chronological sequence.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Modern Greek Department was established in 1919, when the Koraes Chair was inaugurated following a subscription campaign and a grant from the Greek Government, and named in honour of Adamantios Koraes (1748-1833), the scholar and advocate of Greek national independence. The Department became known as the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in 1971, and since 1989 has been part of the School of Humanities.
Repository
Custodial history
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
Conditions governing access
Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.
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.
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
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Communications media
- Academic teaching personnel
- Bibliographies
- Byzantine history
- Curriculum
- Educational administration
- Educational evaluation
- Educational levels
- Educational personnel
- Educational programmes
- European history
- European literature
- Examinations
- Exchange programmes
- Greek history
- Greek literature
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- National history
- National literatures
- Periodicals
- Personnel management
- Posters
- Publications
- Recruitment
- Secondary documents
- Student evaluation
- Student exchange
- Students
- Teachers
- Universities
- University curriculum
- University students
- Visual materials
- Information sciences
- Personnel
- Organization and administration
- Health services administration
- People by occupation
- Public administration
- People
- Government
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
Sources: King's College London Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.