King's College London Department of General Literature and Science Minutes

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA KDGS/M
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: King's College London Department of General Literature and Science Minutes
Date(s)	: 1866-1898
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of King's College London Archives
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: King's College London Department of General Literature and Science

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Department of General Literature and Science came into being in 1839 in response to the need for a greater differentiation of the syllabus for students of the Senior Department at King's College London. As its name suggests, it constituted a broad faculty or grouping of subjects and classes that provided a core liberal syllabus in the arts and sciences available to all students of King's, including Medical students. Principal subjects included English Literature, Theology, Modern History, Classics, Modern Languages and Mathematics, but later instruction covered subjects as diverse as Geology, Law, Political Economy and Oriental Languages. The division between General Literature and Science Departments, that took place in 1888, foreshadowed the replacement of General Literature by the new Faculty of Arts in 1893.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection consists of the minutes of meetings of the staff of the King's College Department of General Literature and Science and the Faculty of Arts, 1866-1898.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Minute books are arranged chronologically.

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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

College Secretary's Office, 1981.

Allied Materials

Related material:

King's College London Archives: Entrance papers (Ref: KCLCA KA/E/A).

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

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:
July 2001