ENGAGEMENT
Royal Holloway are excited to host Day 1 of this Techne Congress at their Egham campus
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How to find Royal Holloway
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Address: Windsor Building, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX
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Egham is on the Waterloo to Reading train line run by South Western Railway. Trains from London Waterloo take 40 minutes.
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Royal Holloway is a 20 minute walk from Egham train station. Leave the station on the ticket office side and turn right onto Station Road. At the traffic lights turn left and follow the main road round. After a few minutes you will come to a big roundabout, follow the main road left up the hill (Egham Hill/A30) past the BP garage. After about ten minutes you will reach the Royal Holloway campus on your left. Buses 8, 8a and 441 also run from Egham town centre to Royal Holloway.
If you need to get a taxi, you can find a list of local taxi companies here.
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How to find the Windsor Building
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You can find the Windsor Building on the campus map – it is next to Founder’s Building and the Davison Building.
The registration desk and refreshments will be in the foyer of the Windsor Building. Keynote lectures will be in the Windsor Auditorium, with other seminar rooms in the same building.
Royal Holloway Facts
Today's Royal Holloway is formed from two colleges, founded by two social pioneers, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway. They were among the first places in Britain where women could access higher education. Bedford College, in London, opened its doors in 1849, and Royal Holloway College's stunning Founder's Building was unveiled by Queen Victoria in 1886. In 1900, the colleges became part of the University of London and in 1985 they merged to form what is now known as Royal Holloway.
Royal Holloway’s Founder’s Building is one of the world’s most spectacular university buildings. The building is home to a picture gallery, chapel, dining hall and library, and provides a home for 500 students. It was designed by the architect William Henry Crossland and was inspired by the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley, France. It has provided a location for filming for various film and TV productions including Delirium (2017), Great British Railway Journeys (2016), Star Gazing Live (2014) and Downton Abbey (2013).
The Picture Gallery houses an incredible collection of world-class Victorian art. Although Thomas Holloway had not originally envisaged an art gallery in his college, he was inspired to start buying paintings to form a collection for his students in 1881. It is likely that this was the first collection gathered in Britain specifically for female viewers, and his approach to creating it was extraordinary in many ways. The collection certainly impressed Queen Victoria. On the day she came to open the College she wrote in her diary that ‘Royal Holloway had fine specimens of modern art’.
