Welcome to King's Collections
This site highlights some of the rich holdings of King's College London Archives and Special Collections through a series of themed micro-sites:
The Serving Soldier »
Funded by King's ISS and JISC, The Serving Soldier aims to publish around 30,000 digital surrogates of original documents highlighting the lives, careers and broader accomplishments of servicemen in the early twentieth century, notably as writers, explorers and photographers in Britain's colonies and more generally.
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Exhibitions & Galleries »
Exhibitions & Galleries features highlights of a uniquely rich and growing collection held at King's College London Archives & Special Collections of more than 5 million archives, rare books, photographs and illustrations spanning over 500 years of world history.
Included are discoveries like the unravelling of the DNA double helix, the development of the telegraph and colour photography as well as in-depth medical, dental and nursing-related material including psychiatry and hospital and public health records. Also available are arts and humanities collections and the holdings of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives covering than a century of modern history, war, empire and exploration.
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War Memorials »
War Memorials celebrates the lives of the more than 700 students and staff from King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals who were killed in twentieth century conflict - whether on distant foreign battlefields or on the home front.
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About collections @ King's
King's Archives and Special Collections cover the history of war, medicine, science, the arts and humanities.
They include collections held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, a unique resource on modern warfare, which incorporates material of international importance such as the World War Two diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who worked alongside Winston Churchill.
The 60,000 volume Foreign & Commonwealth Office Historical Collection spans 500 years of books, pamphlets, maps and documents on the history of international relations, diplomacy and exploration.
King's collections include thousands of photographs, scrapbooks, first hand accounts, reports, hospital patient case records and research papers, notably of the discovery of the DNA double helix at King's in the early 1950s.