King's College London Archives hold a unique, internationally significant range of archival and printed sources available for use by the staff and students of King’s and any member of the public who has an interest in its holdings.
The constituent Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives is a leading repository for research into modern defence policy in Britain. The core of this collection being the private papers of over 800 senior defence personnel from the late Nineteenth century onwards. These Archives total some 5 million documents including a wealth of photography, personal accounts and other papers illustrating subjects as diverse as war, empire, exploration, technology and literature. The important First World War collections include that of Sir Ian Hamilton, British General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli. An in depth collection of images is available from the Serving Soldier website [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/home].