IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Q/EX, Q/EXAM, 1993/Q/EXAM
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: Queen Elizabeth College Examination Question Papers
Date(s): 1923-1985
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 16 boxes
Name of creator(s): 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
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Queen Elizabeth College, which came into being with the granting of a Royal Charter in 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 examination question papers, 1923-1985, constituting an incomplete series of bound BSc examination question papers, 1923, 1970-1985; MSc Nutrition question papers, 1969-1984; undergraduate and postgraduate Manpower Studies examination question papers, 1977-1985; a timetable for BSc exams, 1940.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged into the main set of BSc papers (Ref: Q/EX1) and MSc, duplicate BSc and miscellaneous papers (Ref: Q/EX2, Q/EXAM, 1993/Q/EXAM).
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 for consultation 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 transferred to King's in 1985 from the QEC Library.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Queen Elizabeth College Examination Results (Ref: Q/ER, 1999 QAR), which include some question papers; King's College London Examination Question Papers (Ref: K/EX).
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