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King's College London College Archives

Chelsea College Department of Mathematics Student Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA CDM/ER, CDM/RPG, CDM/FPPG

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Chelsea College Department of Mathematics Student Records

Date(s): 1955-1985

Level of description: Series level descriptions of King's College London Archives

Extent: 5 archive boxes

Name of creator(s): Chelsea Polytechnic | Department of Mathematics
Chelsea College | Department of Mathematics

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The South-Western Polytechnic (later Chelsea Polytechnic/College) Department of Physics and Mathematics was divided into two separate departments in 1907. Until 1918-1919, much of the work conducted by the department was ancillary to the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. These departments were then transferred to Battersea Polytechnic. The Department of Mathematics subsequently developed courses for the General and Special degrees of the University of London. During the Second World War, scientific research development stimulated the need for mathematical education, and shortly after the war, advanced courses were introduced at the request of physicists of the EMI Research Laboratories and GEC Research laboratories that developed into lecture courses for the MSc degree of the University of London. Mathematics teaching was transferred to King's College when King's and Chelsea merged in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Chelsea Polytechnic/College Mathematics record books, 1955-1972 (Ref: CDM/ER), postgraduate registers, 1965-1972 (Ref: CDM/RPG), postgraduate student files, 1968-1985 (Ref: CDM/FPPG). Information contained in the record books typically includes examination results, terminal essay marks and notes of satisfactory completion of the course. Until 1965 postgraduate details are included in the main series of record books, thereafter a sub series of postgraduate students is kept. Information recorded in this sub series includes name, address, qualification and course of study, and some dates of completion. Postgraduate registers typically give name, address, enrolment date, duration and degree. Postgraduate student files are subdivided into MSc, 1970-1983, (Ref: CDM/FPPG/MS), PhD, 1971-1985 (Ref: CDM/FPPG/P), MPhil and withdrawals, 1968-1974 (Ref: CDM/FPPG/PX), and include application forms and letters of acceptance.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Record books are arranged chronologically. Postgraduate files are organised by degree, then completion date, then alphabetically. Postgraduate registers are organised chronologically, then alphabetically within each register.

Conditions governing access:

Subject to an eighty year closure period from date of leaving, but may be consulted by Departmental staff and other College staff with permission from the Head of Department.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, can be supplied to Departmental staff. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Copies of lists are available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Some Chelsea Mathematics student records have been integrated with the King's College London Mathematics student series (Ref: KDM/FP).

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Chelsea College Department of Mathematics Records (Ref: CDM/M, 1994 CDM/F); King's College London Mathematics Department Student Records (Ref: KDM).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: King's College London catalogues; Chelsea College of Science and Technology Historical Pamphlet (1963); H Silver and S J Teague eds, Chelsea College - A History (London, 1977). Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Admission requirements | Educational management
Educational attendance | Educational statistics
Examination marks | Student evaluation | Educational evaluation
University students | Students
Mathematics education

Personal names

Corporate names
Chelsea College | Department of Mathematics
Chelsea Polytechnic | Department of Mathematics

Places