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 UCL's own institutional records are located mainly in the UCL Records Office and Library Special Collections, while some are held within departments themselves.
Main archival series include:
- Minutes of the Council and various UCL committees, 1826 to date
- Committee papers, 1836 to 1918
- UCL Correspondence, 1825 to 1906
- Student Registers, 1828 to 1907
- Professor's fees books, 1833 to 1901
- Financial records, 1828 to 1939
- Applications for Professorships, 1827 to 1920
- Archives of University College Hospital and Medical School
- Records of University College School, 1830 to 1907
- Records of UCL Student societies and Students Union
Printed matter comprises Annual Reports, UCL
Calenders, histories, biographies, prospectuses, student journals and other
college publications. Illustrative and audio-visual
material includes photographs, portraits, newscuttings, ephemera and
film footage. Several collections of professoral papers, other
UCL-related manuscript material, which complement and
enhance the administrative archives, are held separately.
Library Special Collections
Historical context
 The Library was
opened in 1829. Manuscripts covering a whole range of subjects have been acquired
by gift, bequest and sometimes purchase throughout the colleges 170 year-old
history. Jeremy
Bentham's own papers came to the college in 1849 - major interests have
always centred on the papers of the University's founders and their milieu,
benefactors and former professors, while archival material relevant to the
history of the College and of higher education in general has been transferred
on a regular if not too organised basis since its foundation. This latter group
is known collectively as the UCL Archives. UCL's
home pages provide further information on its history.
Nature of holdings
Many of the series from the UCL's archive group used in the
centenary of UCL (University College London 1826-1926 by H.
Hale Bellot. 1929) suffered during enemy action in World War II, and its aftermath
of fire
and flood, so few are complete, but much new material has also come to light.
One of the most significant surviving series consists of letters to and from
UCL between 1825 and 1840, charting early struggles and development,
while the Appendix to Minutes series forms an important backdrop to the Council's
officially minuted deliberations held in the Records
Office. The growing relationship between the administration and academic
staff, the activities of the students, and the research and development of
faculties, departments and their subjects are recorded in the Library's holdings,
while those of individual departments, for example, the Slade School focus
directly on day-to-day operations and academic achievements.
A card index is available in the Special Collections reading room.
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Last modified 21 October 2005
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