Public events
Royal Holloway is a University of Social Purpose with a long history of sharing knowledge, expertise and research with our wider community. We warmly welcome you to join us for public lectures, exhibitions, concerts and other events at the university.
If you are not able to make our events in person or want to watch an event you attended previously, you can view recordings of selected past events.
Royal Holloway operates a permit parking system on our campus. While we encourage the use of public transport where possible, parking is unrestricted for all guests attending events listed below in car park 4 or 12. Parking spaces are not guaranteed and availability can be especially limited between 8am and 5pm. There are Blue Badge designated spaces on campus. Please see information on parking for details.
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Midweek Music
28 Oct 2026Hear one of the finest university choirs in the UK perform varied programmes, with music from the 12th to the 21st centuries in the surroundings of the university's gilded chapel.
Picture Gallery Public Opening
28 Oct 2026The Picture Gallery in our stunning Grade I listed Founder's Building houses the Thomas Holloway collection of Victorian paintings including works by William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais.
Jazz Session with ISQ
29 Oct 2026Vocalist and songwriter Irene Serra brings ISQ to Royal Holloway, presenting an evening of contemporary jazz and alternative pop shaped by more than two decades of musical making.
Pocket Concert
30 Oct 2026Join us for our weekly Friday Pocket Concert as we showcase the very best of our second and third-year special study music students and ensembles at the Department of Music.
Midweek Music
4 Nov 2026Hear one of the finest university choirs in the UK perform varied programmes, with music from the 12th to the 21st centuries in the surroundings of the university's gilded chapel.
Picture Gallery Public Opening
4 Nov 2026The Picture Gallery in our stunning Grade I listed Founder's Building houses the Thomas Holloway collection of Victorian paintings including works by William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais.
'Notes To Self' with Catrin Finch
5 Nov 2026Welsh harpist Catrin Finch makes her Royal Holloway debut as part of her 2026 UK tour, bringing her new album, Notes To Self, to life in an intimate evening of music and storytelling.
Pocket Concert
6 Nov 2026Join us for our weekly Friday Pocket Concert as we showcase the very best of our second and third-year special study music students and ensembles at the Department of Music.
Writing a new history of women and power
9 Nov 2026This year's Bedford Lecture will be given by Professor Kate Williams, historian and novelist and Professor of Public Engagement with History, University of Reading.
The things we don’t say: Ellipsis, liminality, and narrative uncertainty
10 Nov 20262026 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture by Dr Marta Pérez-Carbonell, Associate Professor of Spanish, Colgate University, USA .
Midweek Music
11 Nov 2026Hear one of the finest university choirs in the UK perform varied programmes, with music from the 12th to the 21st centuries in the surroundings of the university's gilded chapel.
Picture Gallery Public Opening
11 Nov 2026The Picture Gallery in our stunning Grade I listed Founder's Building houses the Thomas Holloway collection of Victorian paintings including works by William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais.
EMPOWER presents... Mountain Airs
12 Nov 2026EMPOWER presents Mountain Airs, an evening of music by women composers exploring landscapes, identity, memory and the many ways music can connect us to the world around us.
Pocket Concert
13 Nov 2026Join us for our weekly Friday Pocket Concert as we showcase the very best of our second and third-year special study music students and ensembles at the Department of Music.
The Platform: A Student Showcase
15 Nov 2026The Platform Series returns, showcasing the exceptional musical talent of Royal Holloway students, from Baroque soloists and chamber musicians to jazz, contemporary music and rock bands.
Stranger Things? The Cultural Politics of Late Capitalism
17 Nov 2026This talk investigates how our present conjuncture has become a crisis of culture as much as a crisis of politics, locking us into a state of cultural entrapment and temporal stagnation.
