Kings College London Archives

Kings College London
London
WC2R 2LS
England

Website

Archives and Corporate Records Services

www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

E-mail

Archives and Corporate Records Services

archives.web@kcl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7848 2015

Fax

020 7848 2760

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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King's College London was founded in 1828 and located in a Grade-1 listed building in the Strand. King's College Hospital was established in nearby Portugal Street in 1839/40 and relocated to its present site in Denmark Hill prior to World War One. The College has since merged with Chelsea and Queen Elizabeth Colleges (1985) and Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Medical Schools (completed 1998). The College is a major multi-faculty Higher Education institution with a world-wide profile.

Venue type

Museum, Archive

 Opening hours

Monday - Friday 9.30-17.30

Please note that no orders for documents will be collected between 13.00-14.00 although the Archive reading room will remain open for research and we welcome the placing of forward orders.

The Archives close for the last two weeks of August for stocktaking. The College as a whole is closed on all public holidays and the days between Christmas and New Year.

 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events

Additional info

Location: The Archive reading room is located in Room 302, third floor, Strand Building. The main entrance of King's College London is on the Strand beside Somerset House and opposite St Mary le Strand. From the main entrance on the Strand take the lift to the third floor, turn right out of the lift and follow the signs. Ring the bell to the left of the door for admission.

Parking: There is no parking available within the College, though parking space for the disabled and the delivery of documents can usually be arranged by giving advance notice. Please note, however, that this cannot be guaranteed.

Kings College London
London
WC2R 2LS
England

Website

Archives and Corporate Records Services

www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

E-mail

Archives and Corporate Records Services

archives.web@kcl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7848 2015

Fax

020 7848 2760

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

King's College London Archives holds the institutional records of the College (founded 1829) and related institutions such as King's College Hospital, Guy Hospital Medical School and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Holdings include minutes, correspondence, committee papers, the papers of scientific and other research projects, the private papers of senior staff, photographs and publications. The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives holds the private papers of nearly 800 senior British defence personnel who have held office since 1900. The Centre also houses a growing collection of related microforms, chiefly of American official papers, and the personal library of Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart.

Collection details

Weapons and War, Sport, Social History, Science and Technology, Photography, Personalities, Natural Sciences, Medicine, Archives

Key artists and exhibits

  • Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart
  • The Duke of Wellington
  • Dentistry history
  • Professor Jean Hanson
  • The student rag
  • DNA
  • History of education
  • Imperialism
  • Military history
  • Empire
  • History of medicine
  • Greek history
  • Rosalind Franklin
  • James Clerk Maxwell
  • Charles Wheatstone
  • Telegraph
  • War
  • Strand

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available

Kings College London
London
WC2R 2LS
England

Website

Archives and Corporate Records Services

www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

E-mail

Archives and Corporate Records Services

archives.web@kcl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7848 2015

Fax

020 7848 2760

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

AIM25

http://www.aim25.ac.uk

AIM25 provides free online text access to collection level descriptions of archives within higher education institutions, cultural organisations, learned societies, livery companies and specialist archives in the London area (the area bound by the M25). Its descriptions span more than 100 partner institutions and total around 10,000 catalogues. AIM25 is aimed at academics, students and the general public and seeks to improve access and use of archives. It is ongoing and new and revised descriptions are always being added. A recent upgrade has added Web 2.0 features. Themes include the history of education, and of London, literature, science and technology, exploration, politics, biography, a

Creator

  • Information Services and Systems, King's College London
  • Research Support Libraries Programme
  • University of London

Publisher

  • King's College London Archives
 Paper-based and downloads

DNA: the King's Story

This lavishly illustrated online exhibition tells the story of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the DNA double helix at King's College in the 1950s. It includes a downloadable National Curriculum teaching and image pack exploring the life of Rosalind Franklin, one of the key players in the discovery, examines the ethics of science and the role of women in science. It also includes a number of streamed oral history interviews of family members and scientists who knew Franklin and her work which have been created with the help of Ursuline School for Girls, Ilford.

Creator

  • Geoff Browell
  • Ursuline School, Ilford
  • AV Department, King's College London
  • Jennifer DeWitt
  • King's College London Archives

Publisher

  • King's College London Archives

Lost in the Field of Blackbirds

King's College London Archives and Spectrum Drama have created a thirty minute play based on original interviews with participants in the wars in Yugoslavia during the 1990s, which are held in the Liddell Hart Centre at King's College. The play was performed at venues throughout London in 2008 and attracted audiences of all ages and backgrounds including school pupils and refugees from the conflicts. The play was recorded and a podcast is available for download together with a National Curriculum-themed schools pack.

Creator

  • King's College London Archives
  • Geoff Browell
  • Spectrum Drama

Publisher

  • King's College London Archives

Kings College London
London
WC2R 2LS
England

Website

Archives and Corporate Records Services

www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

E-mail

Archives and Corporate Records Services

archives.web@kcl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7848 2015

Fax

020 7848 2760

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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