CILIP GIG Visit to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Historical Collection at King’s College London, by Rossitza Atanassova
Rossitza Atanassova Rossitza Atanassova is a Digital Curator at the British Library where she enables innovation with the Library’s digital collections and collaborates on digital research projects. She is an active member of the CILIP Academic and Research Libraries SIG and can be found on Mastodon , Bluesky, LinkedIn and ORCID . In July I joined the CILIP Government Information Group visit to Kings’ College London Foyle Special Collections Library based at the Maughan Library , a Grade II listed building that housed the headquarters of the Public Record Office until 1998. The focus of the visit was the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Historical Collection that was transferred to King’s on permanent loan in 2007. The FCDO Historical Library comprises some 140,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, reports, typescripts and manuscripts dating from the early 16 th century to the present day. We received a warm welcomed by Katie Sambrook , Adam Ray and William Wo...
