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King's College, Cambridge

From its foundation by Henry VI in 1441 to the present day, King's College has preserved records of its internal administration, the construction of its buildings, and the lives of its members. The archives offer researchers outstanding sources for the study of architecture, religious upheaval, patterns of consumption, development of the curriculum, social and political history. The collections of modern personal papers have developed since 1930 when the papers of poet and Kingsman Rupert Brooke were transferred. It is now especially strong in the fields of literary and artistic modernism and Keynsian economics. Particularly well documented are the lives and works of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell; the writers E.M. Forster and Rosamond Lehmann; the poet T.S. Eliot; the architect and designer C.R. Ashbee; the economists John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn, Nicholas Kaldor and Richard Stone; and the computer scientist Alan Turing.

The College intends to make collection level descriptions of all its catalogued holdings available on the Archives Hub eventually. This will represent about 90 per cent of the Archive Centre's holdings. In addition, some complete catalogues are available on the Janus website.

Web: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library/archives

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