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Royal Holloway College, originally a women-only college, was founded by the Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. [7] The founding of the college was brought about after Holloway, seeking to fulfil a philanthropic gesture, [8] began a public debate through The Builder [8] regarding "How best to spend a quarter of a million or more", at which point his ...
The Royal Holloway Students' Union is a students' union for Royal Holloway, University of London, affiliated to the National Union of Students. [1] In the words of The Independent, it "has a reputation as one of the best unions in the London area", [2] and is responsible for much of the University's on-campus entertainment provision.
The merged institution took Royal Holloway College's premises in Egham, Surrey, just outside London, as its main campus and took on the name of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC). The decision to drop the Bedford name from day-to-day use caused some discontent among graduates of Bedford College, who felt that their old college had ...
Originally called Royal Holloway College, the establishment was founded by Thomas Holloway as a women-only college in 1879. It became part of the University of London in 1900. Males were first admitted in 1965. In 1985, the college merged with Bedford College and became Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC).
Lilian Faithfull CBE, university administrator; Giles Foden, fellow in creative and performing arts; Sir Gregory Foster, former vice-chancellor of the University of London; Mary Fowler, professor of geology, now Master of Darwin College, Cambridge; Harold Munro Fox, Fellow of the Royal Society; Dame Jane Francis, director of the British ...
The ISG includes the Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (previously named Smart Card Centre, SCC) that was founded in October 2002 by Royal Holloway, Vodafone and Giesecke & Devrient, for training and research in the field of Smart cards, applications and related technologies: its research topics include RFID, Near Field Communication (NFC ...
In 1995 she took a lectureship at Keele University and in 2004 joined the University of Nottingham as Chair of English Literature and Drama. She was Head of the School of English from 2010 to 2013 and was subsequently seconded for two years to the Ningbo , China, joint venture campus as Vice Provost, launching the Arts and Humanities Research ...
The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaus such as Château de Chambord. [1] Today it is the dominant building on the campus.