Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1929-1973 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Scope and content
Queen Elizabeth College Old Students' Association handbooks with a small quantity of editorial correspondence, the constitution and rules of the Association, its membership and finance.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Name of creator
Biographical history
King's College of Household and Social Science opened in 1928 and evolved out of the Household and Social Science Department of King's College for Women, which opened in 1915. Queen Elizabeth College replaced King's College of Household and Social Science, receiving its Royal Charter in 1954, and prevailed until 1985 when it merged with King's College London and Chelsea College.
Repository
Custodial history
Material was transferred from Queen Elizabeth College when it merged with King's College in 1985, mainly 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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Related materials
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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.
Processing Information
February 2002
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.