IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP8
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: MARSHALL, Professor Peter James (b 1933)
Date(s): Created 1962-1996
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 12 boxes, 1 file or 0.12m3
Name of creator(s): Marshall | Peter James | b 1933 | Professor of History
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1933; educated Wellington College, Berkshire, 1947-1952, and Wadham College, Oxford University, 1954-1957; served with the King's African Rifles in Kenya, 1953-1954; successively Assistant Lecturer, 1959-1962, Lecturer, 1962-1970, Reader, 1970-1978, and Professor, 1978-1980, in the History Department, King's College London; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1980-1993; Member of the History Working Group, National Curriculum, 1989-1990; Vice President, Royal Historical Society, 1987-1991; Editor, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1975-1981; Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1993.
Publications: Problems of Empire: Britain and India, 1757-1813 (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1968); editor of The British discovery of Hinduism in the eighteenth century (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); The impeachment of Warren Hastings (Oxford University Press, London, 1965); The East India Company (Routledge, London, 1968); editor of The Oxford history of the British Empire (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998); Imperial Britain (University of London, London, [1994]); editor of The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996); 'A free though conquering people': Britian and Asia in the eighteenth century. An inaugural lecture in the Rhodes Chair of Imperial History, delivered at King's College London (London, 1981); Trade and conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India (Variorum, Aldershot, 1993); India and Indonesia during the Ancien Regime (Brill, Leiden, 1989); Oriental studies (Clarendon, Oxford, 1986); Bengal: the British bridgehead (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987); The great map of mankind. British perceptions of the world in the age of enlightenment with Glyndwr Williams (Dent, London, 1982); The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke Vol. V (Clarendon, Oxford, 1981); Text of the talk given on 21 October 1982 by Professor P. J. Marshall on Thomas Hyde: stupor mundi (Hakluyt Society, London, [1983]).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Marshall, 1962-1996, mainly relating to the teaching of history, including articles and notes by Marshall, 1978-1982, on the teaching and teachers of history at King's College London, including an obituary on Professor Arthur Percival Newton, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, an article by Ian Roy on 'Early historians at King's', and an article by Stephen Porter entitled 'Early economic historians at King's'; material, 1990-1996, relating to The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996); papers, 1989-1991, of the National Curriculum History Working Group set up in 1989 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales, to make recommendations on attainment targets and programmes of study for history with the National Curriculum for schools; Subsidiary History examination papers, 1970-1974; papers, 1984-1992, of the International Commission for Maritime History; the British Library, London Services Advisory Committee, minutes of meetings, papers and reports, 1993; minutes and papers, 1981-1984, of the King's College London Working Party on Archives; King's College London Department of History supervisions list, 1962-1979; King's College London, History course syllabus and course papers, 1984-1985; papers and bibliographies for lectures, 1980-1986; papers relating to Marshall's editorship of The Oxford History of the British Empire.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Most of the collection is in its original order.
Conditions governing access:
Most of the collection is closed pending cataloguing. File relating to Marshall's editorship of The Oxford History of the British Empire is subject to a thirty year closure period, unless a research interest can be proven.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Draft handlist for part of the collection is available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room. Most of the collection is uncatalogued.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the collection was deposited by Professor Marshall in 1996.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
King's College London Archives holds the papers of Professor Arthur Percival Newton, Professor of Imperial History (K/PP7).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000