Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1905-1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
196 archive boxes and volumes or 1.96 cubic metres
Scope and content
King's College London Engineering student files, 1905, 1907, 1918-1984 (KFE/FP), Electronic and Electrical Engineering undergraduate files, 1922, 1924, 1926-1998 (KFEE/FP), Electronic and Electrical Engineering undergraduate withdrawals, 1919, 1924, 1926-1928, 1932-1949, 1951-1998 (KFEE/FP(W)), Electronic and Electrical Engineering postgraduate files, 1930, 1937, 1948, 1952-1953, 1956-1958, 1960-1964, 1966-1970, 1972-1997 (KFEE/FPPG), Electronic and Electrical Engineering postgraduate withdrawals, 1938-1939, 1952, 1957-1958, 1962, 1964-1995 (KFEE/FPPG(W)), Mechanical Engineering undergraduate and postgraduate files, [1960-1982] (KFME/FP & FPPG), Mechanical Engineering undergraduate files, [1977-1999] (KFME/FP), Mechanical Engineering postgraduate files, [1972-1997] (KFME/FPPG), examination results, 1905-1964 (KFE/ER).
File information varies, but typically includes an application for admission form, details of work placements, and general correspondence. Later files include an UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions) form, a breakdown of minor subjects, percentage of marks and occasionally course unit codes, employers report and correspondence.
The examination results from 1905-1957 are generally made up of examination marks and associated papers, including question papers. From 1948 onwards this series consists of pass lists.
System of arrangement
The majority of Engineering files are arranged chronologically by year of leaving, then alphabetically. Withdrawals are organised by year of entry, then alphabetically. Mechanical Engineering files are organised in an alphabetical run, with late additions to the series grouped according to the year they were deposited in the archives.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Class of Civil Engineering and Mining was founded at King's in 1838, mainly as a response to the growth of the railway system and the need for more qualified engineers. This became the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Science, as Applied to Arts and Manufactures in 1840. Over the next few years this department enlarged in scope and in 1844 became the Department of the Applied Sciences. This became the Department of Engineering and the Applied Sciences in 1874. In 1893 the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences was created as part of the Faculty of Science. The Faculty of Engineering was created in 1902, which originally was made up of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Separate departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic and Electrical Engineering were formed, with Civil and Mechanical Engineering combining in 1935. Civil Engineering was then closed in 1989, whilst Mechanical Engineering and Electronic and Electrical Engineering, now the Department of Electronic Engineering, became part of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering in 1991 and the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences in 2019.
Repository
Custodial history
Department of Electronic Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering. Accruals: Periodic deposits by departments.
Conditions governing access
Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.
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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
List available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
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 ›
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.