King’s College London, Libraries & Collections

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections

King’s Libraries offer a huge multidisciplinary information resource base including over 1.2 million printed books and ebooks; more than 60,000 journals, reference tools, statistical data, official publications, maps, music scores, multimedia resources, photographs and manuscripts, as well as Archives (5 million items) and Special Collections of international standing.

History Day 2021 contributions

• King’s College London Libraries and Collections features on a live stream from Senate House Library’s YouTube channel starting Thursday, 4 November, 12:30 GMT

Online exhibitions:

• Plants in the service of mankind. How the cultivation of herbs & plants has shaped the environment & communities
• ‘The paradise of the world’: conflict and society in the Caribbean. Sections on botanical gardens, natural history & the cultivation of sugar, with its associated horrors
• South Africa: diamonds, gold and bloodshed. Section concerning the human and environmental upheaval caused by resource discovery and exploitation
• Voyage to Madagascar: Thomas Locke Lewis and the Anglo-Merina Treaty of 1817 Online exhibition curated from a recent intern’s work transcribing a manuscript relaying a first-hand account of the 1817 British diplomatic and commercial mission to King Radama of Madagascar. With sections on the environment and the natural resources of Madagascar

Blog post:

• MA History Internship blog post on Voyage to Madagascar

Collections pages:

• The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historical Collection The former library collection of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office contains a huge amount of material relating to natural resources and trade across the world.
• Stebbing Collection: TRR Stebbing (1835-1926) was a cleric and gentleman-naturalist chiefly remembered for two major works on the classification of amphipod crustacea, and for his contribution to the reports of the HMS Challenger expedition.

Video:

History Day 2020 contributions

• Blog post: Cottisford War Nursery: The Brooke-Popham Papers
• Live session: Welcome to King’s College London’s Archives & Special Collections!