IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KA/RPT
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: King's College London Student Report Books
Date(s): 1842-1969
Level of description: Series level descriptions of King's College London Archives
Extent: 17 volumes and 15 archive boxes.
Name of creator(s): King's College London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
King's College London student report books including General Literature and Science registers, 1842-1911, Military and Civil Service Departments, 1849-1856, Engineering students, 1843-1912, Science register, 1903-1912, Science sessional reports, 1917-1921, medical registers, 1849-1885. The later series consists of sessional reports for the Arts Faculty, 1913-1959, Science Faculty, 1921-1969, and all faculties, 1953-1959. Information contained typically includes the careers of individual students and leaving dates.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The registers are grouped according to department and chronologically. The sessional reports are arranged chronologically overall, subdivided into first, second, third and fourth year students, then arranged alphabetically within year groups.
Conditions governing access:
Subject to an eighty year closure period from date of leaving, but may be consulted by Departmental staff and other appropriate College staff with permission from the Registry.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies are not normally supplied from the volumes because of their fragile condition.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Lists are 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:
College Secretary's Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
From 1918 onwards information on student careers can be found in the King's College London Registry Slip Books (KAR/FPS). See also the main series of Registry student files (Ref: KAR/FP) and the student records of individual departments and faculties where available.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: King's College London catalogues. Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2002