Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1896-1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
7 boxes and volumes
Scope and content
The records of the King's College London Faculty of Natural Science include Faculty staff minute books, correspondence relating mainly to course planning, admissions and studentships, and student photographs, 1896-1985. These notably include the main series of staff minutes and agendas, 1896-1985; correspondence concerned with the strategic direction of the Faculty, 1974-1985; correspondence relating to studentships and research projects in the Departments of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Physiology and Biochemistry, 1985; memoranda and reports concerned with the Faculty student admissions procedure, 1975-1986; general correspondence touching upon overseas students, BSc regulations, the International Baccalaureate and exam result statistics, 1956-1984; photographs of students, 1957-1985.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically within each category of records.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Faculty of Science was originally founded in 1893, of which the Division of Natural Science formed a part, before becoming the Faculty of Natural Science in 1921. The Faculty was eventually closed in 1985 and its constituent departments and successors now fall mainly under the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering and the School of Life and Health Sciences.
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Department of Science was renamed the Faculty of Science in 1893 and consisted of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Division of Natural Sciences. Engineering and Applied Sciences were briefly joined by Architecture from 1896. As part of the reoganisation during the transfer of King's College London to the University of London, the Faculty of Science was split into two separate faculties: the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Faculty of Science including the Department of Bacteriology in 1903. The Faculty of Science soon increased to include Divisions of Natural Science, Medical [later Science] Division, Department of Bacteriology and the Department of Public Health. By 1921 the Faculty of Science was once again rearranged to become the Faculty of Natural Science.
Repository
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 document in the file.
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
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Academic teaching personnel
- Biochemistry
- Biology education
- Educational administration
- Educational evaluation
- Educational levels
- Educational personnel
- Educational statistics
- Enrolment
- Examinations
- Exceptional students
- Foreign students
- Health education
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Higher science education
- Natural sciences
- Nutrition education
- Photographs
- Physiology
- Science education
- Student evaluation
- Students
- Teachers
- Universities
- University students
- Visual materials
- Personnel
- People by occupation
- People
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 used: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.