Founded as a women-only college by Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called the original college building (now listed Grade 1) "the most ebullient Victorian building in the Home Counties".
In 1900 it and Bedford College each became a constituent college of the University of London.
1945-65 the college began accepting male students, first post-grads and then undergrads. In 1985 Bedford College and Royal Holloway College merged.
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Royal Holloway College
Sarah Parker Remond, 1826 - 1894, African American abolitionist, lecturer, su...
St Luke's Old Street Conservation Plan (a pdf) refers to "History of St Luke's School" by M. Routledge, 1989, a book or leaflet, we assume.
When LCC was replaced with the GLC the body responsible for education became ILEA. Disliked by Thatcher, ILEA survived a number of attempts to abolish it but succumbed in 1990. Thereafter the loc...
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught from 1932 - 1933. He is top right in the photograph.
The school was part of a huge workhouse complex which gave basic education to about 400 children. Pupils were provided with uniforms, and had access to playing fields, a swimming pool and workshops...
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