The collection contains works on military history and biography, with particular strengths in the Napoleonic wars, the American Civil War, the Boer wars, and the First World War.
From 1922 to 1933, Maurice served as Principal to the Working Men’s College, which his paternal grandfather, Frederick Denison Maurice, had helped to found in the mid-nineteenth century. The books in the Maurice Collection were previously held in the Working Men’s College Library.
- Number of items: 130
- Date range: 19th to 20th centuries
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King's College London Archives
Frederick Denison Maurice’s papers, 1805-1872, are held in the College Archives.
Image: Meissonier's '1814'. Frontispiece reproduction of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier's painting of Napoleon Bonaparte, from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by William Milligan Sloane (New York: The Century Co; London: Macmillan & Co, 1896) [FB Maurice Collection DC203 SLO]