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King's College London College Archives

King's College London Department of Geography Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA 1997 KDGG; 1998 KDGG; 1999 KDGG

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: King's College London Department of Geography Records

Date(s): 1930-1996

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 18 boxes

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

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Physical geography, imperial geography, and history and geography, were subjects taught in the Department of General Literature and Science and the Evening Studies Department at King's from the 1850s. A chair in geography was established in 1863. The department became part of the Faculty of Arts in 1893, and the subject taught under an intercollegiate arrangement with the London School of Economics from 1922, becoming known as the Joint School of Geography from 1949. The department was part of the School of Humanities from 1989 and in 2001 merged with the Geography Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The records of King's College London Department of Geography include staff committee minutes, correspondence, working papers and publications, 1930-1996; most notably departmental staff committee minutes, 1980-1993; papers relating to the organisation and reorganisation of the department and the implications for geography of the merger of King's with Queen Elizabeth and Chelsea Colleges, 1967-1988; papers relating to the Faculty of Arts, King's College London, 1987-1989; papers relating to research income in the department, 1983-1996; correspondence on appointments to the staff and concerning personnel in general, 1990-1994; staff-student committee minutes, 1969-1990; correspondence with the London School of Economics, 1981-1989; correspondence and statistics relating to the Board of Examiners and examination results, 1980-1987; correspondence concerning proposals for new Domesday survey, 1982; papers including correspondence, typescript reports and printed pamphlets on overseas field expeditions, 1982-1984; minutes, correspondence and safety guidelines relating to the Management Committee of the Rogate Field Centre, the biological, geographical and geological study centre opened in West Sussex in 1968, 1968-1993; working papers and enrolment forms concerning the European Community ERASMUS programme to facilitate co- operation between European universities, 1991-1996; teaching schedules, course information and syllabuses, 1967-1990; minutes, correspondence and printed reports of the King's College and London School of Economics Joint School Society, 1980-1992; MSc thesis by David Linton, lecturer in Geography at King's College, on drainage in Wessex, 1930; typescript copy of a draft of book by Professor John Thornes and Professor Denys Brunsden entitled Geomorphology and time (London, 1977); offprints of articles by David Linton and other members of staff including in the Scottish geographical magazine and Geographical journal on topics ranging from glaciation and drainage to human populations, 1932-1971; printed reports and bibliographies concerning Geography departmental expeditions and the published work of Sidney William Wooldridge, Professor of Geography, King's College, 1964-1966.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Boxed by year of accession.

Conditions governing access:

Administrative records are generally closed for 30 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes. Staff and student records are subject to an 80 year closure period after the date of leaving, but may be consulted by Departmental and other College staff with permission from the Head of Department.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

King's College Department of Geography.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

King's College London College Archives: Student undergraduate and postgraduate files (Ref: KCLCA KDGG/FP, KDGG/FP(W), KDGG/FPPG); examination question papers (Ref: KCLCA K/EX); Secretarial series (Ref: KCLCA KAS/AC2).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: King's College London Calendars, College prospectuses. 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 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bibliographies | Secondary documents
Educational finance | Economics of education
Enrolment | Educational statistics
Examination marks | Student evaluation | Educational evaluation
Field work | Research work
Geography education | Science education
Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Student exchange | Exchange programmes | Educational programmes
University curriculum | Curriculum
Educational administration
Educational planning

Personal names
Brunsden | Denys | b 1936 | Professor of Geography
Linton | David Leslie | 1906-1971 | geographer
Thornes | John | fl 1977-2002 | Professor of Geography
Wooldridge | Sidney William | 1900-1963 | Professor of Geography

Corporate names
King's College London | Department of Geography
LSE | London School of Economics and Political Science x London School of Economics and Political Science
Rogate Field Centre

Places