Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1947-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
37 boxes
Scope and content
King's College London Department of History undergraduate student files, 1949-1992, 1994 (Ref: KDH/FP), undergraduate record cards, 1952-1968, 1971-94 (Ref: KDH/FPC), postgraduate files, 1947, 1960, 1962-1993 (Ref: KDH/FPPG), postgraduate record cards, [1950-1992] (Ref: KDH/FPPGC). All students listed in the undergraduate file series from 1949-1966 have both a record card and a file. The majority of postgraduate students up to 1989 also have both a record card and a file. Undergraduate files from 1949-1966 typically contain only general correspondence. From 1968-1976, they also include UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions) forms. Information contained on the record cards includes name, permanent address, term time address, previous education, course studied, and photograph. The postgraduate files include an application for admission form, report form, references, degree registration form, admission slip and enrolment form, Faculty of Arts postgraduate form and correspondence.
System of arrangement
Undergraduate files, 1949-1978, are arranged chronologically by year of entry then alphabetically within each year. Those covering years 1980-1992, 1994 are listed by year of leaving, then alphabetically. Undergraduate and postgraduate record cards are organised in an alphabetical run. Postgraduate files, 1947-1985, are organised by year of entry, then alphabetically within each year. Postgraduate files covering leavers from 1975-1987 are listed in an alphabetical run under the year they were deposited in the Archives.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Courses in English Literature and Modern History were provided in the Senior Department from 1831 and in the Department of General Literature and Science shortly afterwards. English and History were separated in 1855. The installation of Samuel Rawson Gardiner as first Professor in 1876 marked the beginning of a focus in the department on the political and constitutional history of Tudor and Stuart England. The department underwent considerable enlargement in staff and in the breadth of its teaching from around 1912 under Professor Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw, especially with the establishment of the Rhodes Chair of Imperial History in 1919. The department became part of the Faculty of Arts in 1893 and the School of Humanities in 1989.
Repository
Custodial history
Department of History
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
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
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.