Collection KFA/FP - ARTS: King's College London faculty student records

Key Information

Reference code

KFA/FP

Title

ARTS: King's College London faculty student records

Date(s)

  • 1962-2000 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

176 boxes

Scope and content

King's College London Faculty of Arts student files, 1971-1984 (Ref: KFA/FP), Faculty of Arts record cards, 1962-1988 (Ref: KFA/FPC), Faculty of Arts mark sheets, 1981-1988 (Ref: KFA/FP), School of Humanities undergraduate files, 1988-1998 (Ref: KSH/FP), School of Humanities postgraduate files, 1988-1997 (Ref: KSH/FPPG), School of Humanities undergraduate withdrawals, 1984-1995 (Ref: KSH/FP(W)), School of Humanities postgraduate withdrawals, 1965-1997 (Ref: KSH/FPPG(W)), School of Humanities non-degree undergraduate student files, 1990-2000 (Ref: KSH/FPND), the Subdean's correspondence with and regarding students, plus testimonials, 1930-1945, [1958]-1973 (Ref: KFA/FP(ADV)), BMus/MMus Music Performance student files, 1992-1996 (Ref: KSH/BMUS, KSH/MMUS). Files typically consist of enrolment forms for each year, a UCAS (Universities and College Admissions Service) form, letters of admission and acceptance, and some correspondence. Information contained includes title, name, photograph, address, date of birth, marital status, school number, nationality, choice of University and subjects, education from age 11 and public school exams already taken. The record cards series covers occasional students, finalists and withdrawals.

Accruals

Periodic deposits by School Office.

System of arrangement

Faculty of Arts student files, withdrawals and non-degree students are all arranged chronologically by year of entry, then alphabetically within each year. School of Humanities undergraduate and postgraduate files are arranged by year of graduation, then alphabetically within each year. Late additions to the series are arranged temporarily according to the year they were deposited in the Archives.

General Information

Name of creator

(1893-1985)

Biographical history

The origins of the Faculty of Arts lay in the Department of General Literature and Science. The Department came into being in 1839 in response to the need for a greater differentiation of the syllabus for students of the Senior Department at King's College London. As its name suggests, it constituted a broad faculty or grouping of subjects and classes that provided a core liberal syllabus in the arts and sciences available to all students of King's, including Medical students. Principal subjects included English Literature, Theology, Modern History, Classics, Modern Languages and Mathematics, but later instruction covered subjects as diverse as Geology, Law, Political Economy and Oriental Languages. The division between General Literature and Science Departments, that took place in 1888, foreshadowed the replacement of General Literature by the new Faculty of Arts in 1893. In 1904 the Department of Architecture and the Divisions of Laws and Economics were integrated into the Faculty of Arts until the Transfer Act of 1908 when the governance of King's College London was transferred to the University of London and a separate Faculty of Laws was established. The Faculty of Arts was replaced by the School of Humanities in 1989.

Name of creator

(1989-2010)

Biographical history

Custodial history

Humanities School Office

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.

Related materials

King's College London Archives: Faculty of Arts Entrance Papers, 1831-1935 (Ref: KA/E/A), King's College London Admission Papers (Ref: KA/E); Faculty of Arts/School of Humanities Records (Ref: KCLCA KFA, KSH); Department of General Literature and Science Minutes (Ref: KCLCA KDGS/M); examination question papers (Ref: KCLCA K/EX).

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; College Calendars; King's College London prospectuses (K/SYL). Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Accession area