IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KA/DS/M
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: King's College London Delegacy Special Committee Minutes
Date(s): 1909-1955
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s): University of London, King's College
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Following the King's College (Transfer) Act of 1908, and the legal separation of King's into the secular University of London, King's College, and the Theological King's College London in 1909-1910, the original governing Council of King's College London was replaced by a Delegacy. To it reported a number of sub-committees including the important General/Professorial/Academic Board, and the Finance Committee. The Delegacy also authorised a variety of ad hoc committees required to arrange specific events, oversee appointments and lectureships, and organise the academic activity of specific departments or faculties. The reunification of King's in 1980 brought the committees back under the ultimate control of Council.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The records of the Special Committees of the Delegacy of King's College London consist of minutes of a variety of committees, 1910-1955. These include committees on individual departments including Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Evening Classes, Slavonic Studies and Bacteriology and Public Health, notably covering the Engineering Society, departmental reorganisation and equipment, 1910-1950; Refectory Committee, 1918-1931; Fellows Committee, 1924-1954; Committee of Deans, including the calendar, fees, admission of women, student statistics and social activities, 1921-1943; College Dinner/Fellows Dinner/Luncheon Club Committees, 1924-1954; Public Lectures Committee, including notes on the Gilbart Banking Lectures and programmes of public lectures in each department, 1946-1955; the Conversazione Committee, 1932-1954; Men's and Women's Hostel Committees, with some accounts and prospectuses, 1923-1931.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are arranged in a series of bound volumes in a continuous chronological sequence. The volumes are indexed.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
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:
A detailed catalogue is available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
College Secretary's Office, 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
King's College London Archives: Council Committee minutes (Ref: KCLCA KA/CS/M); Delegacy minutes (Ref: KCLCA KA/D/M).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002