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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 Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) started in 1983 as an informal grouping of the seven largest university research libraries (the university libraries of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, and Oxford) to "explore the possibilities of closer co-operation, particularly, but not exclusively in the use of ...
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 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.
He was awarded a PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1988. He had held two positions as assistant professor of economics, one at University of Illinois from August 1987 to July 1990, and another at Brown University from July 1990 to August 1997, before joining Royal Holloway, University of London in September 1997. He is currently a ...
Sylvia Theresa Walby OBE FBA FAcSS (born 16 October 1953) [1] is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Criminology at Royal Holloway University of London.She has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for distinction in sociology. [2]
Royal Holloway, University of London: Notable works: Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students, The Holocaust and the Postmodern: Website: pure.royalholloway.ac.uk /portal /en /persons /robert-eaglestone(fb218d7c-da01-4aa8-84e0-09b5c5aec566).html
Harriet Hawkins FRGS (born 1980) is a British cultural geographer.She is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Geo-Humanities (with Veronica Della Dora), [3] and the Director of the Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. [4]