IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KDGS/M
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: King's College London Department of General Literature and Science Minutes
Date(s): 1866-1898
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): King's College London Department of General Literature and Science
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Department of General Literature and Science came into being in 1839 in response to the need for a greater differentiation of the syllabus for students of the Senior Department at King's College London. As its name suggests, it constituted a broad faculty or grouping of subjects and classes that provided a core liberal syllabus in the arts and sciences available to all students of King's, including Medical students. Principal subjects included English Literature, Theology, Modern History, Classics, Modern Languages and Mathematics, but later instruction covered subjects as diverse as Geology, Law, Political Economy and Oriental Languages. The division between General Literature and Science Departments, that took place in 1888, foreshadowed the replacement of General Literature by the new Faculty of Arts in 1893.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection consists of the minutes of meetings of the staff of the King's College Department of General Literature and Science and the Faculty of Arts, 1866-1898.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Minute books are arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
College Secretary's Office, 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
King's College London Archives: Entrance papers (Ref: KCLCA KA/E/A).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2001