Collection KSM - MAXWELL SOCIETY: King's College London records

Key Information

Reference code

KSM

Title

MAXWELL SOCIETY: King's College London records

Date(s)

  • 1939-1970 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 boxes

Scope and content

The records of the Maxwell Society at King's College London consist of minutes, correspondence, programmes and signature books, 1939-1970. These notably include the manuscript minutes of the Maxwell Society, 1947-1950, mostly summarising the title and ... »

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged into the main series of papers as described above in the Scope and Content section.

General Information

Name of creator

(1935)

Biographical history

The Maxwell Society was founded around 1935 by Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Wheatstone Professor of Physics at the University of London, 1924-1936, and was named in honour of the pioneering physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, Professor of Natural Philosophy ... »

Custodial history

King's College Maxwell Society.

Conditions governing access

Open, 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

Related materials

King's College London Archives: Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 71); papers relating to the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation (Ref: KCLCA K/ PP 45).

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.