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King's College London College Archives

Chelsea College Secretary's Files


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA 1985/CAS, 1987/CAS, CAS 1989, 1991 CAS, 1992 CAS, 1997 CAS, CAS/AD8

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Chelsea College Secretary's Files

Date(s): 1889-1998

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 196 boxes

Name of creator(s): South-Western Polytechnic
Chelsea Polytechnic
Chelsea College of Science and Technology
College Secretary, Chelsea College

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The South-Western Polytechnic was opened at Manresa Road, Chelsea, in 1895, to provide scientific and technical education to Londoners. Day and evening classes for men and women comprised study in domestic economy, mathematics, engineering, natural science, art and music. It was renamed the Chelsea Polytechnic in 1922. The Polytechnic taught a growing number of registered students of the University of London, and this relationship was later formally recognised when the renamed Chelsea College of Science and Technology was admitted as a School of the University in 1966. Government of the College was devolved to the so-called Governing Body, supplemented from its inception in 1961 by an Academic Board reflecting the interests of staff and students. These were renamed the Council and Senate when the College was granted its Royal Charter in 1971. The College Secretary was senior administrative officer until the merger of Chelsea with King's College and Queen Elizabeth College in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Chelsea College Secretary's files, 1889-1998. These records reflect all aspects of the academic and administrative work of the College, ranging from strategic planning, building maintenance and finance through to University of London business where applicable to Chelsea College, notably including South-Western Polytechnic and subsequent College schemes and correspondence on the relationship of the College with the University of London, 1889-1985; governance, namely Chelsea College Senate membership, agendas, committees and other business, 1972-1985; Council minutes, agendas and membership, 1972-1987; King's, Queen's and Chelsea (KQC) Management Committee and Joint Policy Committee correspondence and papers, 1983-1985; University of London Senate agendas and minutes, 1983-1985 (Ref: 1985/CAS, 1987/CAS, 1991 CAS); papers relating to major committees such as academic planning group correspondence, 1983-1984; Finance and General Purposes Committee, Planning and Staffing Committee papers, 1983-1985, planning and resources committee papers, 1989-1991 (Ref: 1997/CAS, CAS/GC2); the general running of the College, including patents, 1972-1987; copyright, 1970-1989; College safety, 1977-1985; Data Protection Act, 1985-1987; Students' Union and student welfare, 1966-1985; a proposed merger with Westfield College, University of London, 1982-1987; the Swinnerton-Dyer Committee report documents, 1980-1982; St George's Hospital Medical School papers reflecting administrative concerns, 1976-1986; agreements and contracts with publishing companies and scientific equipment suppliers, 1968-1985; papers relating to the arsenic poisoning of porters at Chelsea College including cuttings and police investigations, 1966-1971, 1998, (Ref: CAS/AD1, 1987/CAS, 1991 CAS); personnel and staff related files including on contracts, salaries, leave entitlements, performance targets, trade unions, principally NUPE and NALGO, staff appointments and lists, 1967-1987; Academic Staff Committee minutes, papers and correspondence, 1969-1985; Technical and Manual Staff Committees, 1971-1985; demonstrators and visiting lecturers, 1975-1981 (Ref: CAS/AD8); papers relating to College property, [1970-1988] (Ref: 1987/CAS, CAS 1989); academic related papers concerning various departments at King's spanning the merger of Chelsea and King's in 1985, including Biophysics, Chemistry, English, Physiology, Spanish, Theology and War Studies, 1977-1989, Chelsea Departmental papers including the Nuffield programme, Library and Computing Department, 1966-1988 (Ref: 1987/CAS, 1991 CAS, 1992 CAS).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged according to year of accession.

Conditions governing access:

Administrative records are generally subject to a thirty year closure period from the date of leaving. Personnel records are closed for eighty years.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A detailed list of contents is available for consultation in hard-copy in the King's College London Archives reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Office of the College Secretary, 1985 and 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Secretary's records to some extent overlap with those of the Registry (Ref: CAR) and Minute Books series (Ref: CA/M). The majority of personnel records for Chelsea College comprise a distinct series (Ref: CA/FP). See also King's College Secretarial, Principal's Office and Registry material that describe the merger in 1985 and the subsequent history of the Chelsea campus (Ref: KAS, KAP, KAR).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: H Silver and S J Teague eds, Chelsea College - A History (London, 1977). Entry compiled by Geoff Browell 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: March 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Conditions of employment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Copyright | Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Data protection | Communication legislation | Communication policy
Educational finance | Economics of education
Educational governing boards | Educational supervision
Environmental health | Health policy | Health
Higher education | Educational levels
Patents | Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Poisoning | Toxicology | Pathology
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Student organizations | Educational associations | Educational administrative structure | Educational organizations
Universities | Higher education institutions | Educational institutions
University governing bodies | Governing bodies | Educational supervision
University students | Students
Wages | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Educational buildings
Educational equipment
Educational governing bodies
Educational planning
Information/library administration
Organizations
Student welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Chelsea College of Science and Technology
Chelsea College | Department of Computing
Chelsea Polytechnic
King's College London
King's College London | Department of Biophysics
King's College London | Department of Chemistry
King's College London | Department of English
King's College London | Department of Physiology
King's College London | Department of Spanish
King's College London | Department of War Studies
King's College London | Faculty of Theology
NALGO | National and Local Government Officers Association x National and Local Government Officers Association
Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project
NUPE | National Union of Public Employees x National Union of Public Employees
South-Western Polytechnic
St George's Hospital Medical School
Westfield College x University of London | Westfield College

Places