Chelsea College Department of Mathematics Records

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA CDM/M, 1994 CDM/F
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	: Chelsea College Department of Mathematics Records
Date(s)	: 1965-1984
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of King's College London Archives
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Chelsea College | Department of Mathematics

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The South-Western Polytechnic (later Chelsea Polytechnic/College) Department of Physics and Mathematics was divided into two separate departments in 1907. Until 1918-1919, much of the work conducted by the department was ancillary to the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. These departments were then transferred to Battersea Polytechnic. The Department of Mathematics subsequently developed courses for the General and Special degrees of the University of London. During the Second World War, scientific research development stimulated the need for mathematical education, and shortly after the war, advanced courses were introduced at the request of physicists of the EMI Research Laboratories and GEC Research laboratories that developed into lecture courses for the MSc degree of the University of London. Mathematics teaching was transferred to King's College when King's and Chelsea merged in 1985.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Chelsea College Department of Mathematics records, 1965-1984. The collection includes Mathematics Staff Committee minutes, 1965-1976, and correspondence relating to appointments, promotions, staffing levels and staff conditions of employment, [1974-1984].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

A division into minute book and administrative sections as shown in the Scope and content section above.

Conditions governing access:

Administrative records are generally closed for 30 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes. Staff and student records are subject to an 80 year closure period after the date of leaving.

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:

Chelsea College Department of Mathematics

Allied Materials

Related material:

King's College London Archives: Chelsea Polytechnic/Chelsea College Mathematics Student Records (Ref: KCLCA CDM/ER, CDM/RPG, CDM/FPPG).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: King's College London catalogues; Chelsea College of Science and Technology Historical Pamphlet (1963); H Silver and S J Teague eds, Chelsea College. A History (1977). 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:
February 2002