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Queen Elizabeth College Lectures, Programmes and Events Literature


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Q/EPH/LEC, Q/EPH/PRG

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Queen Elizabeth College Lectures, Programmes and Events Literature

Date(s): 1909-1986

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator(s): King's College for Women | Household and Social Science Department
King's College of Household and Social Science
Queen Elizabeth College

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Queen Elizabeth College, so called from 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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Queen Elizabeth College lectures, programmes and events literature, 1909-1986. This class notably contains printed and typescript lectures delivered by Professor Ronald Burge, Professor Arnold Bender, Neville Marsh and others on subjects including on nuclear chemistry, nutrition and experimental botany, 1964-1972; notices, programmes and tickets relating to lectures, 1934-1972 (Ref: Q/EPH/LEC); other programmes, tickets and invitations to Annual Dinner, degree presentations, carol services and other events, 1909-1986 (Ref: Q/EPH/PRG).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection is divided into Lectures and Programmes as shown in the Scope and Content section.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to the signature of a reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A descriptive list is available in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records from Queen Elizabeth College were mainly transferred to King's in 1985.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Queen Elizabeth College Annual Reports contain calendar information on the timetabling of events, and see also Press Cuttings for notices of events (Refs: Q/EPH/RPT, Q/PC). King's College London Lectures, Programmes and Events Literature (Ref: K/LEC, K/LECT, K/OS, K/PRG, K/SOC, K/INV, K/EXB, K/CEN, K/SES, K/APP).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Cultural events | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Higher education | Educational levels
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Nutrition | Physiology
Universities | Higher education institutions | Educational institutions
Botany
Chemistry

Personal names
Bender | Arnold Eric | b 1918 | Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics
Burge | Ronald Edgar | b 1932 | Professor of Physics
Marsh | Neville Alexander | b 1943 | lecturer in physiology

Corporate names
King's College London | Household and Social Science Department | 1915-1928
King's College of Household and Social Science | 1928-1953
Queen Elizabeth College | 1953-1985

Places