IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP166
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: LAVERY, John Francis (1935-2004)
Date(s): [1853-1988]
Level of description: collection
Extent: 71 boxes or 0.71 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Lavery | John Francis | 1935-2004 | classics student, King's College London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Francis Lavery was born in 1935, he originally enrolled at King's College, University of London in 1968 but did not complete his course. He re-enrolled in 1983 where he studied for a PhD in Classics on the subject of Greek tragedies, under the supervision of Prof Reginald Winnington-Ingram. He died in 2004.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of John F Lavery, consisting chiefly of photographs of Ancient Greek sites. Including photographs, glass slides and negatives of Ancient Greek sites, Greek landscapes and modern Greek buildings. Notebooks containing notes, diary entries and sketches, interspersed with items of correspondence and poems. Typescript bound draft volume: Agamemnon, Choephoria and Eumenides, edited and translated by Lavery. Draft articles and academic notes by Lavery. Lavery's PhD thesis, 1985; personal correspondence [1985-1995]. Sketches, press cuttings, maps, and poems.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, some Greek
System of arrangement:
Arranged in the original order.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
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 and Information Management, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received by the archive, Aug 2005.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Papers of Prof Reginald Winnington-Ingram (ref: K/PP164).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery as part of the VCDF upgrade programme.
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: Jan 2008