WORMALD, Patrick (1947-2004)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP148
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	: WORMALD, Patrick (1947-2004)
Date(s)	: 1968-2004
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 11 archive boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Wormald | Patrick | 1947-2004 | medieval historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1947; educated Eton College, Balliol College Oxford (matriculated 1966); studied under the supervision of the leading medievalist, Professor Michael Wallace Hadrill; elected to All Soul's Oxford, 1969; Lecturer in Medieval History at Glasgow University, 1974-1988; Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, 1988-2000; studied Venerable Bede and later and most significantly, King Alfred and his law codes; died 2004.
Publications include: The making of English law: King Alfred to the twelfth century (Oxford, 1999); Bede and the conversion of England (Jarrow, 1984).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Academic papers of Patrick Wormald, including texts of published and unpublished research notes and writings, lectures, drafts of books and articles created by Patrick Wormald, 1968-2004; notably including handwritten notes from research undertaken by Wormald from study of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts or taken from public lectures attended by Wormald on lawsuits, government, post-Roman Britain and pre-Conquest England and the Celtic Church; rough draft chapters on `continental legislation' covering the Franks and Carolingians; lectures on Bede, Beowulf, King Alfred, Gregory of Tours, Cnut, 1971-1984; copies of drafts of The Making of English Law, research notes and follow-up, 1989-1995; correspondence with publishers, 1983-2003; bibliographies, essay questions, seminar and course outlines from Glasgow and Oxford, 1977-1988; newspaper cuttings - mainly book reviews, 1977-1987.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Enlish, Anglo-Saxon, Latin

System of arrangement:

Arranged into the broad sequence as set out above in Scope and Content.

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 provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Finding aids:

This collection level description available online. Box list available in the Archives Reading Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Collection deposited by the Wormald family, April 2006.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Wormald family

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
15 August 2006