Collection KDEN - ENGLISH: King's College London departmental records

Key Information

Reference code

KDEN

Title

ENGLISH: King's College London departmental records

Date(s)

  • 1952-1993 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

9 boxes

Scope and content

King's College London English records comprise minutes, correspondence, mark sheets and results tables, and printed readers for students, 1952-1993; notably including departmental minutes, 1990-1996; correspondence relating mainly to visiting academics, 1985-1992; mark sheets, results' tables and Examiners' Board memoranda and minutes, 1952-1993; printed course readers for American Studies core courses, 1984-1987.

System of arrangement

Boxed according to year of accession.

General Information

Name of creator

(1922-)

Biographical history

Courses in English Literature and History were provided in the Senior Department at King's College from 1831 and shortly afterwards became part of the Department of General Literature and Science. English and History were separated in 1855, when classes in English Language and Literature became available. A Department of English was formed in 1922/23, remaining part of the Faculty of Arts until the School of Humanities was created in 1989.

Custodial history

King's College London Department of English.

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

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

King's College London Department of English Student Records (Ref: KCLCA KDEN/FP, KDEN/FP MISC, KDEN/FP (W), KDEN (NA)/FP, KDEN/FPPG, KDEN/FPPG MISC, KDEN (SUB)/FP, KDEN (SPECIAL)/FP, KDEN (JYA), KDEN (PENN), KDEN/FPPGC); examination question papers (Ref: KCLCA K/EX); Secretarial series (Ref: KCLCA KAS/AC2). Private papers at King's relating to English include those of Walter William Skeat (Ref: KCLCA Skeat), Professor George Charles Moore Smith (Ref: KCLCA Smith), Frederick James Furnivall (Ref: KCLCA Furnivall), David Morrice Low (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 70), Helen Muriel Hudson (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 12), Bryan Stanley William Johnson (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 51), Maureen Patricia Duffy (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 56), Douglas Cecil Collins (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 61).

Alternative identifier(s)

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 used: King's College Calendars and prospectuses. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Accession area