Collection KDG/FP - GERMAN: King's College London departmental student records

Key Information

Reference code

KDG/FP

Title

GERMAN: King's College London departmental student records

Date(s)

  • 1918-1992 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

10 archive boxes.

Scope and content

King's College London Department of German register of students, 1918-1937 (Ref: KDG/RG), record cards, [1950-1952], 1966-1982 (Ref: KDG/FPC), postgraduate student files, 1997-1998 (Ref: KDG/FPPG), student correspondence in the administrative series, 1955-1992 (Ref: KDG). The record cards cover all pass students and are subdivided into those taking German as part of a general degree or subsidiary subject, and German Honours students. Information contained typically includes photograph, name, college number, addresses, date of entry, honours course, subsidiary course, general degree subject, age, date of birth, previous education and examinations passed, National Service, proposed occupation, and scholarships. The Honours students' records include some details on the degree examination, higher degrees taken and studies abroad. The postgraduate series contains only a few files for PhD and research students. Information includes an application for admission as a postgraduate student, correspondence, awards application, details of previous degree, supervisor's report, dissertation/thesis outline and submission. The administrative series includes correspondence with and concerning students, 1955-1984, correspondence concerning awards and prizes to students, 1973-1992, correspondence regarding the registration of postgraduate students, 1969-1988, which includes whether the students were full or part-time, the name of their supervisor and date of registration.

System of arrangement

All student records are organised alphabetically.

General Information

Name of creator

(1893-2014)

Biographical history

Courses in German language and literature were provided by the Department of General Literature and Science from 1831, and were later also made available to students in the Evening Classes Department. A discrete Department was formed in the late 19th century with the creation of the Faculty of Arts in 1893, and was incorporated into the School of Humanities in 1989. The department was merged with French, Spanish and Portuguese to become the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities in 2014.

Custodial history

Department of German

Conditions governing access

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.

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

Lists are available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›

Related materials

King's College London Department of German Records (Ref: KCLCA 1994 KDG; 1995 KDG; KDG/OB; KDG/PH; KDG/F; KDG/LI); Entrance Papers (Ref: KA/E), King's College London Attendance Registers (Ref: KA/RAT/KDG); examination question papers (Ref: K/EX); Secretarial series (Ref: KAS/AC2). Private papers relating to the German Department include those of Freda Mond (Ref: KCLCA Mond), Professor Frederick Pickering (Ref: KCLCA Pickering), Professor Henry Gibson Atkins (Ref: K/PP 41), Professor Ilse Graham (Ref: K/PP 23).

Related descriptions

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: King's College London catalogues. Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Accession area