Moments
1721 Money, global trade and slavery in the creation of Guy’s
The oldest institutions which now make up King's were founded from City of London networks, whose wealth came from global trade, including trade in enslaved people
1828 The financial and political networks which created King’s
King’s College was founded in 1829 from overlapping networks of institutional power in Britain, which connected politics and the City of London
1853 The crisis of Anglicanism in the mid-nineteenth-century
King’s College was founded as an Anglican university, with a clear religious identity. Its later history shaped and has been shaped by religious debate in Britain and beyond
1857 War, nineteenth-century empire and conservative empire
The military has been close to research and teaching at King's, from the Department of Military Science created in 1848 to the Department of Defence Studies today
1862 Knowledge for industry and science
King's had one of the first engineering departments in the UK, and has led crucial fields of science and technological development since
1882 Race, Civilisation and Culture
From the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century, King's was host to important strands of research on human diversity, with many scholars in both humanities and sciences central to the propagation of ideas about racial or civilizational hierarchy
1885 Women's education
King’s was a trailblazer for the education of women, with the University of London awarding degrees to women from the 1870s, and King’s Ladies Department opening in 1885
1900 King's and the Staffing of empire
Through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, King's was an important conduit for staffing the British empire
1919 Crises of empire
King's was a crucial centre for research dealing with the crises and collapse of empires after World War I
1946 Education for the nation
Postwar King's responded to the new political and social mood from the late 1940s onwards with a clearer focus on national educational goals
1964 King’s and Decolonisation
King's was entangled within the process by which new independent states succeeded empire, educating many postcolonial leaders, providing a forum for developing ideas about global reorganisation after World War II
1979 King’s at 150
The late twentieth century saw major changes in students' experience, with the emergence of a sharper sense of student identity
King's Past / King's Future
As King's prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2029, what should the relationship between its past and present be?