Kings College London - Calendar 1967-1968

King’s College London – Calendar 1967–1968 (1968)
By King’s College London • Chaucer Press
ISBN: nobly non-existent
Condition: Good
Offered with a straight face by: Crappy Old Books

Behold, a relic from a simpler time when universities proudly printed hundreds of pages to tell you where Room 3B was and what time Latin started, rather than hiding everything behind three logins and a forgotten password. This King’s College London – Calendar 1967–1968 is not, alas, a wall planner with kittens. It’s something far better: an official academic calendar from when undergraduates wore sensible shoes, lecturers answered to “Sir” or “Doctor,” and nobody used the word “synergy” in public.

Think of this volume as the KCL Field Guide to 1967–68. Inside, you can expect:

• Endless lists of courses, regulations, fees, and procedures, all described in calm, bureaucratic English that assumes you will behave yourself.

• Staff lists, complete with titles and initials, so you can marvel at the density of tweed implied by the faculty alone.

• The kind of college rules and requirements that make you grateful you never had to apply for an intercollegiate something-or-other in triplicate.

• Occasional dry phrases that inadvertently sound like the setup to a joke, and yet are entirely serious.

This is the King’s College London of rotary telephones, carbon copies, and the quiet confidence that the empire of paperwork would endure forever. It’s an archival time machine in book form: a snapshot of what it meant to be academically respectable in the late 1960s, before PowerPoint, online portals, or student feedback forms with emoji.

Now, about this particular copy, as graded by the uncompromising standards of Crappy Old Books:

• Condition: Good – solid, serviceable, and reassuringly not falling apart. The spine is hanging in there like a long-serving lecturer who “might retire next year” and somehow never does.

• Covers and binding: Expect some rubbing, mild corner bumps, and that general air of “I have been on a shelf in an office with beige walls since Harold Wilson was Prime Minister.” Everything intact, nothing tragic.

• Pages: Firmly attached, nicely readable, and probably mellowed to a pleasing ivory or light tea-stain shade. There may be a whiff of “old library” about it, for those who enjoy their books with a hint of nostalgia and dust.

• You may find: a previous owner’s name in the front, a faint departmental stamp, or a discreet pencil tick next to a regulation some poor student once had to memorise. All part of the charm.

What you will not find:

• An ISBN. This was 1968; everyone trusted librarians, index cards, and the Dewey Decimal System. Numbers on the back cover were for the printer, not global commerce.

• Colour photos of smiling students on beanbags. The most daring graphic flourish here is likely a coat of arms.

• Any awareness of wi-fi, online learning, or “learning outcomes.” Education here simply assumes you read the book, turned up, and did the work.

This calendar is perfect if you are:

• A King’s alum who wants to see how the institution looked on paper before the modern age of branding and logos.

• A historian, archivist, or incurable nerd for academic bureaucracy.

• Someone who just enjoys the idea of reading about regulations for the Faculty of Science from a time when calculators were exotic.

In short, this is King’s College London, 1967–68, frozen in print: department lists, timetables, rules, fees and all, preserved in Good condition and ready for gentle, amused browsing.

A small, sturdy slice of academic history—no frills, no ISBN, no nonsense—brought to you with wry affection by Crappy Old Books.

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