North East London Polytechnic institutional archive

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 2381 NELP
Held at	: University of East London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.uel.ac.uk/Discover/Library/Library-archive ›
Full title	: North East London Polytechnic institutional archive
Date(s)	: 1968-1992
Level of description	: Fonds (collection)
Extent	: [20 shelves]
Name of creator(s)	: North East London Polytechnic Polytechnic of East London

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Formed in 1970 by the merger of Barking Regional College of Technology, Waltham Forest Technical College and West Ham College of Technology. Became University of East London in 1992.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the North East London Polytechnic, later Polytechnic of East London, 1968-1992, including:

Minutes and papers of the Board of Governors, 1969-1992; Minutes and papers of the Academic Board, 1968-1991; Annual Reports, 1970-1991; Prospectuses, Student handbooks and guides to the Polytechnic, 1970-1992; Programmes for events and ceremonies, 1970-1985, notably the for the Inauguration and Designation Ceremonies of the new Polytechnic, 1970; Internal newsletters and magazines, 1970-[1999]; papers relating to selected departments, [1970s-1980s], including the Anglian Regional Management Centre; administrative and published papers of George Brosan, first Director of the Polytechnic, [1970s].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Collection is uncatalogued.

Conditions governing access:

Access is by appointment only. Please contact the Archives Department, University of East London, for information. See: www.uel/lls/archives

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to copyright and the condition of the original, may be supplied. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the archivist.

Finding aids:

Very basic (and incomplete) hand list available on request.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Before its move to the Docklands Campus, the uncatalogued and unsorted institutional archive was housed at UEL's Barking Campus and in an external store. When the Barking Campus closed in 2006, the material which was held onsite was transferred, however the external store material was not and as a consequence is lost. The extant material is therefore of a very patchy nature.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the library at UEL's Barking Campus, 2006.

Allied Materials

Related material:

UEL also holds some material relating to the three institutions which formed the North East London Polytechnic, comprising: West Ham College of Technology and its predecessors, 1898-1970; South East Essex Technical College, later Barking Regional College of Technology, 1936-1970; South West Essex Technical College and School of Art, later Waltham Forest Technical College and School of Art, 1938-1977.

The archive also holds a small amount of material relating to the University of East London, mostly minutes of meetings of the Board of Governors and Academic Board, 1992-2010 [incomplete].

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
June 2012