Collection KDS - SPANISH AND SPANISH-AMERICAN STUDIES: King's College London departmental records

Key Information

Reference code

KDS

Title

SPANISH AND SPANISH-AMERICAN STUDIES: King's College London departmental records

Date(s)

  • 1949-1992 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

59 boxes

Scope and content

King's College London Spanish and Spanish-American Studies Department records comprising correspondence with staff and students, departmental minutes, University of London Board of Studies' papers, papers relating to the University Grants' Committee, ... »

System of arrangement

Boxed according to the year of accession.

General Information

Name of creator

King's College London Department of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies
(1970-2008)

Biographical history

Spanish was taught at King's College from 1831, initially as a course in the Senior Department and then the Department of General Literature and Science, becoming a Faculty of Arts course from 1893 until 1923-1924, when it became recognised in its own ... »

Name of creator

Repository

Custodial history

Some papers were received directly from Professor Leonard Patrick Harvey, the remainder from the departmental office.

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 ... »

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
  • Spanish

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

King's College London: Spanish and Spanish-American Studies Department Student files (Ref: KCLCA KDS/FP/FPPG); the papers of Professor James Fitzmaurice Kelly (ref: K/PP 69). Material relating to the teaching of Spanish can also be found among the ... »

Subjects

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Archivist's note

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