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Senate House, the administrative centre of the University of London, lies in the heart of Bloomsbury between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the north and the British Museum to the south. The main entrance is from Malet Street to the west and the rear entrance from Russell Square to the east. Senate House, University of London taken by C Ford, March 04. ...
Senate House, University of London taken by C Ford, March 04. ...
Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...
Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...
The Bloomsbury, a corner pub Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden, named after a Norman landowner William de Blemund (Blemondisben) who acquired the land in 1201. ...
// School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Motto Knowledge is Power Crest Patron HM The Queen President Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Director & Principal Prof. ...
The main entrance to the British Museum. ...
Malet Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London (WC1), which runs between Torrington Place and the British Museum, parallel to Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road. ...
Russell Square Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, London. ...
Main building
The main building contains the offices of the University of London and the main library. The building consists of 19 floors and is 210 feet high. The Senate House of the University of London Senate House, the administrative centre of the University of London, lies in the heart of Bloomsbury between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the north and the British Museum to the south. ...
Design and construction The Art Deco design was the work of architect Charles Holden, who was appointed in February 1931. Construction work began in 1932, and King George V laid the ceremonial foundation stone on 26 June 1933. The building was completed in 1937. Its impressive size hailed the start of what was to be the largest seat of learning in the world; the original plans, however, detailed a building three times its original size, extending from the British Museum to the Octagon of University College London. A lack of funding and the onset of the Second World War deterred the original plans. Asheville City Hall. ...
Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 - 1 May 1960) was an English architect known for his designs of stations on the London Underground railway system. ...
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ...
The Octagon Building is a central part of the main building of the University College London, found at Gower Street, London. ...
University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
A current in-joke within the university is that you can tell someone's political persuasion from how they describe the building's external architecture - if they call it 'fascist', they're left leaning; if they call it 'totalitarian' or 'Stalinist', they're right leaning
Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, intended to house Parliament in the building in the event of his taking power. Hitler also intended it as his headquarters in London after the invasion of Britain - this may be truth or 'urban legend'[1]. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...
The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...
The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...
Operation Sealion (Unternehmen (Undertaking) Seelöwe in German) was a World War II German plan to invade the United Kingdom. ...
Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). ...
Ministry of Information At the outbreak of the Second World War, the library was moved out for the duration and some of the offices of the Ministry of Information moved in. George Orwell worked for this Ministry, in this building and elsewhere, and so this building is thought to have been the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth buildings in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
The Minister of Information is a British government position that was created briefly during the First World War and again during the Second World War. ...
George Orwell on Time Magazine cover from 1983. ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four is an allegorical political novel written by George Orwell. ...
Present day Senate House Tower remains a prominent landmark throughout most of Bloomsbury and is visible from some distance away. The building also contains the Offices of the Chancellor and one of Central London's largest restaurants. In late 2005 most of the university administrative offices moved the adjacent building, Stewart House (32 Russell Square).
Senate House Library The fourth to the nineteenth floors of the building accommodate Senate House Library (formerly known as the University of London Library), which is open to staff and students of all colleges within the university and contains material relevant chiefly to arts and social science subjects. The library is administered by the central university as part the University of London Research Library Services. Notable resources include the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature and the Palaeography Room, claimed to have the best collection in Europe of books relating to the study of western manuscripts. A modern-style library in Chambéry In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ...
The University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) is group of libraries together comprising an extensive research collection across the social science and humanities disciplines. ...
Palaeography (British) or paleography (American) (from the Greek palaiós, old and graphein, to write) is the study of ancient and medieval manuscripts, independent of the language (Koine Greek, Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Old English, etc. ...
A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ...
The Senate House tower in literature, tv and popular culture
Literature Nineteen Eighty-Four is an allegorical political novel written by George Orwell. ...
The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic 1951 novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. ...
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Hugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, and produced by Granada Television for the UKs ITV network from 1990 to 1993. ...
Some critics saw Bertie Wooster, here portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, as detrimental to the worldwide image of the British young man. ...
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