Collection Q/OB - OBITUARIES: Queen Elizabeth College staff records

Key Information

Reference code

Q/OB

Title

OBITUARIES: Queen Elizabeth College staff records

Date(s)

  • 1955-1963 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Scope and content

Queen Elizabeth College obituaries and press cuttings, 1908-1986, notably including obituaries of a number of former staff of Queen Elizabeth and its predecessors, 1955-1963; bound volumes of press cuttings containing often detailed notices, news stories ... »

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged into obituaries and press cuttings as illustrated in the Scope and Content section.

General Information

Name of creator

(1953-1985)

Biographical history

Queen Elizabeth College, which came into being with the granting of a Royal Charter in 1953, succeeded the Home Science and Economics classes of King's College Women's Department and King's College for Women, which started in 1908; the Household and ... »

Custodial history

Records from Queen Elizabeth College were transferred to King's in 1985 from the QEC Library.

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

Finding aids

A brief list is available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

Related materials

See also other classes of Queen Elizabeth ephemera for news and notices, notably Reports (Ref: Q/EPH/RPT), and King's College London Press Cuttings and Obituaries for material dating from the merger period around 1985 (Ref: K/OB, K/PC).

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.