GB 0100 KCLCA K/PBN, K/PUB, K/HAN, K/RPT, K/REG, K/SYL, K/EC/SYL, KFA/SYL, KFE/SYL, KDJ/SYL, KFT/SYL, KFED/SYL, KFL/SYL, KFLS/SYL, KFMS/SYL, KFM/SYL, KFN/SYL, KFPS/SYL - King's College London Publications: Prospectuses, Handbooks and Reports

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PBN, K/PUB, K/HAN, K/RPT, K/REG, K/SYL, K/EC/SYL, KFA/SYL, KFE/SYL, KDJ/SYL, KFT/SYL, KFED/SYL, KFL/SYL, KFLS/SYL, KFMS/SYL, KFM/SYL, KFN/SYL, KFPS/SYL

Title

King's College London Publications: Prospectuses, Handbooks and Reports

Date(s)

  • 1828-2001 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

69 boxes

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Biographical history

Archival history

GB 0100 KCLCA K/PBN, K/PUB, K/HAN, K/RPT, K/REG, K/SYL, K/EC/SYL, KFA/SYL, KFE/SYL, KDJ/SYL, KFT/SYL, KFED/SYL, KFL/SYL, KFLS/SYL, KFMS/SYL, KFM/SYL, KFN/SYL, KFPS/SYL 1828-2001 Sub-fonds of King's College London Archives 69 boxes King's College London

Various departments and Press and Publications Office/External Relations.

King's College London Publications: Prospectuses, Handbooks and Reports, 1828-2001. This class contains handbooks and other publications describing the history of the College, its students and staff and the academic content of individual subjects and departments. It ranges from historical essays and glossy introductory brochures to College reports and the main series of undergraduate and postgraduate prospectuses. It contains, in particular, publications including booklets, reports and essays on the history of King's, King's property, staff and particular departments, including early prizegiving, the King's Strand site, King's hostels, Reggie the College mascot and the College Chapel, with some few essays and books by King's staff on subjects unrelated to the College, 1828-2001 (Ref: K/PBN); general information booklets on the College, scholarships and prizes, College services such as catering, campus guides, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Guides, Directories of Experts at King's available for interview by the media, style guidelines for College publications, merger celebrations and Millennium festival programmes, 1913-2001; guides to College libraries, 1967-1997; King's Staff Manuals, 1987-1994; Accommodation and halls of residence guidebooks, [1915]-2001; welcome packs for new students, 1985-2000; Computing Centre guides, 1977-1996; handbooks for overseas students at King's, 1974-2000; Student services guides, 1985-1987; Departmental and School Handbooks for Life Sciences, Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine and Dentistry and Language and Communications Centre, 1992-2001 (K/HAN, K/PUB); incomplete Annual Reports from the College Council, 1836-1895 (a full set of early Reports for the 1840s are printed in the College Calendars), and Delegacy, 1914-1980, Annual Reports of Theological Department, 1917-1979, Statistical Bulletins, 1985-1993, Annual Accounts, 1976-1994, Departmental Annual Reports for Gerontology, 1987-1998, Medicine and Dentistry, 1984-1998, Medical Law and Ethics, 1987-1997, Life Sciences, 1991-1992, Psychiatry, 1997-1998, University of London Annual Reports and Reviews, 1970-1998, Student Services Annual Reports, 1987-2000, Library Services Annual Report, 1985-1997, and other merger, strategic development, research, subject area reviews and financial surveys (Ref: K/RPT); rules and regulations of internal students of the College and various professional bodies such as engineers, architects, barristers, University of London rules and regulations, regulations for individual departments and disciplines, 1867-2000 (Ref: K/REG); an incomplete run of general undergraduate prospectuses, 1854-1897, and complete, 1964-2000; incomplete general postgraduate prospectuses, 1971-1975, and complete, 1977-2000; bound volumes of detailed prospectuses for specific departments and faculties, 1964-1973, 1975-1978; loose detailed prospectuses for specific departments and faculties including Evening Classes, 1863-1918, Arts/Humanities, 1915-1990, Classics, Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, 1918-1995, History, 1913-1999, War Studies, 1985-1998, Architecture, 1908-1909, Modern Language Departments, 1917-1998, Philosophy, 1980-1982, Engineering, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 1843-1844, 1917-1919, 1960-[2001], Journalism, 1937-1940, Theology, 1897-1991, Education, 1969-1995, Laws, 1917-1918, 1978-1999, Life Sciences in general and specific departments, 1968-2001, Medical Sciences, 1900-2001, Music, 1965-[1996], Natural Sciences in general and specific departments, 1915-1985, Physical Sciences in general and specific departments, 1985-2001 (Ref: K/SYL, K/EC/SYL, KFA/SYL, KFE/SYL, KDJ/SYL, KFT/SYL, KFED/SYL, KFL/SYL, KFLS/SYL, KFMS/SYL, KFM/SYL, KFN/SYL, KFPS/SYL).

Regular accruals

Arranged into the main series as described in the Scope and Content section above, and broadly chronologically within each series.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form,

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original documents should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
English

A catalogue is available in the King's College Archives reading room and shortly to be made available on-line.

Various other classes of ephemera at King's supplement the information provided in the Publications section, notably including press releases and serials and periodicals.

Sources: King's College catalogues. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell. 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. December 2001 Communications media Academic standards Academic teaching personnel Books Curriculum guides Educational buildings Educational history Educational levels Educational personnel Educational publications Educational quality Educational sciences Educational statistics Exceptional students Foreign students Guidebooks Guides Higher education Higher education institutions Information/library administration King's College London King's College London , Council King's College London , Delegacy King's College London , Department/Faculty of Music King's College London , Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies King's College London , Department of Classics King's College London , Department of Education King's College London , Department of Evening Classes King's College London , Department of French King's College London , Department of German King's College London , Department of Gerontology King's College London , Department of History King's College London , Department of Journalism King's College London , Department of Medical Law and Ethics King's College London , Department of Philosophy King's College London , Department of Physics King's College London , Department of Portuguese King's College London , Department of Spanish King's College London , Department of Theology King's College London , Department of War Studies King's College London , Faculty of Arts King's College London , Faculty of Education King's College London , Faculty of Engineering King's College London , Faculty of Life Sciences/School of Life, Basic Medical and Health Sciences King's College London , Faculty of Medical Science King's College London , Faculty of Theology King's College London , Faculty/School of Law King's College London , School of Humanities King's College London , School of Physical Sciences and Engineering King's College London , Theological Department Periodicals Publications Students Student welfare Teachers Universities University students Yearbooks Information sciences Personnel People by occupation People Educational institutions

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Various departments and Press and Publications Office/External Relations.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

King's College London Publications: Prospectuses, Handbooks and Reports, 1828-2001. This class contains handbooks and other publications describing the history of the College, its students and staff and the academic content of individual subjects and departments. It ranges from historical essays and glossy introductory brochures to College reports and the main series of undergraduate and postgraduate prospectuses. It contains, in particular, publications including booklets, reports and essays on the history of King's, King's property, staff and particular departments, including early prizegiving, the King's Strand site, King's hostels, Reggie the College mascot and the College Chapel, with some few essays and books by King's staff on subjects unrelated to the College, 1828-2001 (Ref: K/PBN); general information booklets on the College, scholarships and prizes, College services such as catering, campus guides, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Guides, Directories of Experts at King's available for interview by the media, style guidelines for College publications, merger celebrations and Millennium festival programmes, 1913-2001; guides to College libraries, 1967-1997; King's Staff Manuals, 1987-1994; Accommodation and halls of residence guidebooks, [1915]-2001; welcome packs for new students, 1985-2000; Computing Centre guides, 1977-1996; handbooks for overseas students at King's, 1974-2000; Student services guides, 1985-1987; Departmental and School Handbooks for Life Sciences, Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine and Dentistry and Language and Communications Centre, 1992-2001 (K/HAN, K/PUB); incomplete Annual Reports from the College Council, 1836-1895 (a full set of early Reports for the 1840s are printed in the College Calendars), and Delegacy, 1914-1980, Annual Reports of Theological Department, 1917-1979, Statistical Bulletins, 1985-1993, Annual Accounts, 1976-1994, Departmental Annual Reports for Gerontology, 1987-1998, Medicine and Dentistry, 1984-1998, Medical Law and Ethics, 1987-1997, Life Sciences, 1991-1992, Psychiatry, 1997-1998, University of London Annual Reports and Reviews, 1970-1998, Student Services Annual Reports, 1987-2000, Library Services Annual Report, 1985-1997, and other merger, strategic development, research, subject area reviews and financial surveys (Ref: K/RPT); rules and regulations of internal students of the College and various professional bodies such as engineers, architects, barristers, University of London rules and regulations, regulations for individual departments and disciplines, 1867-2000 (Ref: K/REG); an incomplete run of general undergraduate prospectuses, 1854-1897, and complete, 1964-2000; incomplete general postgraduate prospectuses, 1971-1975, and complete, 1977-2000; bound volumes of detailed prospectuses for specific departments and faculties, 1964-1973, 1975-1978; loose detailed prospectuses for specific departments and faculties including Evening Classes, 1863-1918, Arts/Humanities, 1915-1990, Classics, Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, 1918-1995, History, 1913-1999, War Studies, 1985-1998, Architecture, 1908-1909, Modern Language Departments, 1917-1998, Philosophy, 1980-1982, Engineering, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 1843-1844, 1917-1919, 1960-[2001], Journalism, 1937-1940, Theology, 1897-1991, Education, 1969-1995, Laws, 1917-1918, 1978-1999, Life Sciences in general and specific departments, 1968-2001, Medical Sciences, 1900-2001, Music, 1965-[1996], Natural Sciences in general and specific departments, 1915-1985, Physical Sciences in general and specific departments, 1985-2001 (Ref: K/SYL, K/EC/SYL, KFA/SYL, KFE/SYL, KDJ/SYL, KFT/SYL, KFED/SYL, KFL/SYL, KFLS/SYL, KFMS/SYL, KFM/SYL, KFN/SYL, KFPS/SYL).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

Regular accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged into the main series as described in the Scope and Content section above, and broadly chronologically within each series.

Conditions of access and use area

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 documents should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Various other classes of ephemera at King's supplement the information provided in the Publications section, notably including press releases and serials and periodicals.

Finding aids

A catalogue is available in the King's College Archives reading room and shortly to be made available on-line.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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King's College London College Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

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Language(s)

  • English

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