Collection QAR - REGISTRY: Queen Elizabeth College administrative records

Key Information

Reference code

QAR

Title

REGISTRY: Queen Elizabeth College administrative records

Date(s)

  • 1968-1987 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

10 boxes

Scope and content

The records of the Registry at Queen Elizabeth College, 1968-1987, are comprised of committee files and working papers on the academic work of the College, notably including various notes and papers of the Academic Board and committees including the Biological Services Committee and Publicity Committee, working parties and reports on numerous issues such as first year teaching, regulations, fees, statutes, examinations, accommodation and intercollegiate courses, and on aspects of strategic development, notably the Swinnerton-Dyer Report on Higher Education and on the merger with King's College London in 1985 (Ref: 1989/QAR); notes on student numbers, teaching loads and statistics on constituent courses, 1971-1985 (Ref: 1995/QAR).

System of arrangement

The records are boxed in the order received at the time of accession.

General Information

Name of creator

Queen Elizabeth College, 1953-1985
(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 Social Science Department of King's College for Women, which opened in 1915; and King's College of Household and Social Science, which operated from 1928. The amalgamation of the College with King's College London and Chelsea College was completed in 1985.

Repository

Custodial history

Transferred from the QEC Registrar to the King's College London Archives, November 1989.

Conditions governing access

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

A descriptive list for 1989/QAR only is available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

  

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

See also Queen Elizabeth College Minutes, Principal's files and Secretarial papers for detail on the academic and non-academic development of QEC (Refs: QA/M, QAP, QAS). See especially the series of board of Principal Teachers/Academic Board minutes (Ref: QA/AB/M). King's College Registry records, minute books, Secretarial papers and other sources should also be consulted from the merger period around 1985. The series 1999/QAR comprises examination results and is listed under Q/ER.

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Subjects

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

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Accession area