Chelsea College Personnel Records

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA CA/FP, CA/RC
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 Personnel Records
Date(s)	: Created 1953-1985
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of King's College London Archives
Extent	: approx 3600 files
Name of creator(s)	: Chelsea College Personnel Department

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Chelsea College became a School of the University of London in 1966. Originally founded in 1891 as the South-Western Polytechnic, later Chelsea Polytechnic (1922), the college became a designated college of advanced technology (as Chelsea College of Science and Technology) in 1957. In 1966 the college became a School of the University of London, and in 1971 the renamed Chelsea College was formally incorporated into the University of London. Following the merger in 1985 with King's College London and Queen Elizabeth College, the personnel functions of all three colleges were integrated in a single department which took responsibility for the staff and reported to the College Secretary.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records comprise Clerical, Secretarial, Manual and Technical staff files, 1953-1985 (CA/FPC), Academic staff files, 1960-1985 (CA/FPA), Personal record cards, 1977-1985 (CA/RC). On the admission of the College as a school of the University of London in 1966, staff were retained in post and staff files transferred with them. The Clerical, Secretarial, Manual and Technical staff files include porters, catering and kitchen staff, laboratory and research technicians, cleaners, service engineers, clerks, hall managers, secretaries, library staff, carpenters, administrative assistants, computer programmers and operators, research students and assistants.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records comprise three series of Chelsea College staff records: Academic staff files, Clerical, Secretarial, Manual and Technical staff files, and Personal record cards. The records are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the member of staff. The year given is the date when the member of staff left the College.

Conditions governing access:

Subject to an eighty year closure period, but may be consulted by members of the College with the permission of the head of the Personnel Department.

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:

Detailed catalogues are available in hard copy in the reading room of the College Archives.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Few of the Clerical, Secretarial, Manual and Technical staff files have survived before 1960, as many were destroyed prior to the merger in 1985.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records from Chelsea College were transferred to King's College London in 1985.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The college archives also hold personnel records of King's College London, Academic staff files, 1900-1999 (KA/FPA), Manual and Technical staff files, 1903, 1932-1995 (KA/FPT), Clerical and Secretarial staff files, 1920-1998 (KA/FPC), Queen Elizabeth College Manual and Technical staff files, 1919-1985 (QA/FPT), Academic and related Academic staff files, 1909-1985 (QA/FPA), Clerical and Secretarial staff files, 1922-1985 (QA/FPC); King's College London Library staff files, 1957-1998 (KAL/FD).

Policy files, 1927-1955 (ref: LCC/EO/HFE/5/33-43, 190-193, 266), Education Committee: Further and Higher Education Sub-Committee papers (ILEA/CL/Min/16), are held at London Metropolitan Archives.

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
March 2000