Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
47 boxes
Scope and content
Records, 1914-1985, of the College Secretary of Queen Elizabeth College and predecessor bodies, comprising general and policy files, 1914-1985, on matters including social events, buildings, College coat of arms and motto, aerial photographs of the College, and statistics on students (Ref: QAS/GPF1); files on prizes and scholarships, 1945-1985 (Ref: QAS/GPF2); departments and staff, 1947-1985, largely relating to outside funding for research (Ref: QAS/GPF3); buildings, premises and equipment, 1953-1977, including laboratories and science departments, sports facilities, students' unions and other properties (Ref: QAS/GPF4); College committees, 1966-1985, comprising papers of meetings with the Secretary's annotations and correspondence (Ref: QAS/GPF5); University of London, 1927-1985, including regulations and statistics concerning students, staff and facilities (Ref: QAS/GPF6); University Grants Committee, 1957-1983 (Ref: QAS/GPF7); other outside bodies, 1938-1985, including letters from the Queen Mother, 1970-1985 (Ref: QAS/GPF8); safety, 1977-1985 (Ref: QAS/GPF9); files relating to the merger with King's College London and Chelsea College, 1982-1985 (Ref: 1987/QAS); staff records, comprising unsuccessful applications, 1959-1980 (Ref: QAS/FP/II); contracts and conditions of employment for some posts, 1958-1977 (Ref: QAS/FP/III); material relating to research grants; individual pay records, traders' credits lists, 1967-1969, and listings of College cheques, 1962-1973.
System of arrangement
Records are arranged in series.
General Information
Name of creator
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
Records from Queen Elizabeth College were transferred to King's College London after 1985.
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
List available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Academic buildings
- Accounting
- Aerial photographs
- Awards
- Conditions of employment
- Economics of science
- Educational administrators
- Educational buildings
- Educational equipment
- Educational grants
- Educational management
- Educational personnel
- Educational systems
- Finance
- Financial administration
- Heraldry
- Higher education institutions
- Occupational health and safety
- Occupational safety
- Personnel
- Personnel management
- Personnel selection
- Photographs
- Recreational facilities
- Recruitment
- Research grants
- Scholarships
- Science finance
- Social behaviour
- Social norms
- Sports facilities
- Statistical data
- Statistics
- Students
- University laboratories
- Visual materials
- Wages
- Womens education
- Working conditions
- People by occupation
- People
- Organization and administration
- Health services administration
- Public administration
- Government
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Elizabeth, 1900-2002, Queen Consort of King George VI (Subject)
- Chelsea College, 1972-1985 (Subject)
- King's College for Women, Household and Social Science Department, Kensington, Secretary (Subject)
- King's College for Women, London, Secretary (Subject)
- King's College of Household and Social Science, Kensington, Secretary (Subject)
- UGC, University Grants Committee (Subject)
- University of London (Subject)
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
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.