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King's College London College Archives

King's College London Secretary's files relating to academic schools, faculties and departments (individual faculties and departments)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KAS/AC2

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: King's College London Secretary's files relating to academic schools, faculties and departments (individual faculties and departments)

Date(s): 1830-1983

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 458 files

Name of creator(s): King's College London | College Secretary's Department

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Between 1831 and 1988 the College Secretary rose from Secretary to the Principal and Council to senior administrative officer of the College. Throughout the period the College Secretary had responsibility for servicing the Council, its main standing and special subcommittees, and the Academic Board. In the 1960s, the post of Academic Registrar was reorganised to reflect the coordinated responsibility for student admission and examinations with the Department.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, reports, minutes, accounts and papers relating to Academic Schools, Faculties and Departments concerning appointments, buildings, bequests, mergers, equipment, finance, scholarships and endowments, courses and examinations, research grants, staff appointments, fees, admissions, students and grants, 1830-1841, 1851-1983, comprising Faculty of Education, 1965-1982; Faculty of Engineering, 1882-1982; Faculty of Medicine, 1923-1930, 1946-1955, 1972-1981; Faculty of Natural Science, 1940-1955, 1969-1975; School of Slavonic Studies, 1915-1937; Faculty of Theology, 1977-1983; Departments of Anatomy, 1900-1913, 1932, 1936-1948, 1966-1981; Arabic, 1894-1904; Architecture, 1890-1914; Arts, 1856-1860, 1897-1917, 1939-1956, 1971-1981; Biochemistry, 1936, 1965-1981; Biological Sciences, 1967-1976, 1983; Biophysics, 1948, 1952, 1962-1982; Botany, 1916-1918, 1923-1936, 1962-1977; Plant Sciences, 1977-1981; Chemical Engineering, 1965; Chemistry, 1897-1918, 1940-1945, 1960-1983; Civil Service Classes, 1892-1918; Classics, 1909-1917, 1970-1982; Commerce, 1872, 1918; Day Training College, 1890-1947; Department for the Training of Teachers, 1914-1939/40; Education Department 1939/40-1952/53; Engineering, 1882-1883, 1890-1980; Civil Engineering, 1977-1983; Mechanical Engineering, 1977-1981; Electrical Engineering, 1978-1981; English, 1840, 1893-1918, 1926, 1931-1934, 1959-1980; Evening Classes, 1896-1916, 1921-1929; French, 1946-1982; Geography, 1951-1953, 1961-1982; Geology, 1896-1918, 1965-1981; German, 1902-1958, 1977-1982; Modern Greek, 1917-1919, 1927, 1945-1946, 1961; Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1961-1977; Histology, 1918; History, 1877-1878, 1909-1918, 1938-1948, 1968-1977, 1981; Human Environmental Studies, 1973-1983; Icelandic, 1914; Italian, 1903, 1915-1918; Journalism 1923-1931, 1936-1939, 1944-1946; University of London Board of Laws, 1900-1952, 1971-1983; Mathematics, 1872, 1906, 1969-1982; Medicine, 1834-1837; 1851-1984; Metallurgy 1919; Music, 1962-1981; Natural Science, 1890-1917; School of Oriental Studies, 1895-1917; School of Chinese, 1899-1916; Palaeography 1972-1976; Pharmacology, 1925, 1966-1982; Philosophy, 1965-1966, 1971-1975, 1981; Physics, 1896, 1904-1918, 1926-1982; Physiology, 1891-1919, 1926, 1935-1939, 1949-1981; Economic Science and Statistics, 1851, 1904-1916, 1931; Portuguese, 1913-1924, 1948-1960, 1958-1982; Psychology, 1902-1904, 1914-1917, 1939-1947; Public Health, 1894-1917; Bacteriology, 1898-1902, 1910-1917, 1923-1925; Spanish, 1913-1922, 1937-1952, 1966-1970, 1977-1982; Theology, 1830-1841, 1862, 1864, 1888-1983; War Office Classes, 1916-1925; War Studies, 1959-1981; Zoology, 1905-1914, 1918, 1925, 1965-1970, 1977-1981.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Files are arranged in series as outlined in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Subject to a thirty year closure period.

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:

Detailed catalogues are available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

College Secretary's Department

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

College Secretary's files relating to academic schools, faculties and departments (KAS/AC1), policy 1828-1992 (KAS/GC) and the general administration of staffing, finance and the College estate 1828-1990 (KAS/AD), the Principal's and Secretary's in and outletter series 1828-1917 (KA/IC and KA/OLB).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic standards | Educational quality
Academic teaching personnel | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Educational fees | Educational finance | Economics of education
Higher education | Educational levels
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Scholarships | Educational grants
Universities | Higher education institutions | Educational institutions
University curriculum | Curriculum
University students | Students
Educational administration

Personal names

Corporate names
King's College London | Civil Service Department | founded 1875 x Strand School | Strand | 1897-1913 x Strand School | Brixton | from 1913
King's College London | College Secretary's Department
King's College London | Department of Anatomy
King's College London | Department of Arabic
King's College London | Department of Biochemistry
King's College London | Department of Biology
King's College London | Department of Biophysics
King's College London | Department of Botany
King's College London | Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
King's College London | Department of Chemical Engineering
King's College London | Department of Chemistry
King's College London | Department of Chinese
King's College London | Department of Civil Engineering
King's College London | Department of Classics
King's College London | Department of Day Training
King's College London | Department of Economic Science and Statistics
King's College London | Department of Education
King's College London | Department of Electrical Engineering
King's College London | Department of English
King's College London | Department of French
King's College London | Department of Geography
King's College London | Department of Geology
King's College London | Department of German
King's College London | Department of History
King's College London | Department of Human Environmental Studies
King's College London | Department of Italian
King's College London | Department of Journalism
King's College London | Department of Mathematics
King's College London | Department of Mechanical Engineering
King's College London | Department of Palaeography
King's College London | Department of Pharmacology
King's College London | Department of Philosophy
King's College London | Department of Physics
King's College London | Department of Physiology
King's College London | Department of Psychology
King's College London | Department of Public Health and Bacteriology
King's College London | Department of Spanish
King's College London | Department of War Studies
King's College London | Department of Zoology
King's College London | Department/Faculty of Music
King's College London | Faculty of Arts
King's College London | Faculty of Education
King's College London | Faculty of Medicine
King's College London | Faculty of Natural Science
King's College London | Faculty of Theology
King's College London | School of Slavonic Studies

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