Another activity for you based in London. It’s quite interesting, with lots of history and even Aldus Huxley features here. But, one of the nicest pluses of this activity is that it is free. We’re talking about Senate House.
Here are the basics: Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London, immediately to the north of the British Museum. The Art Deco building was constructed between 1932 and 1937 as the first phase of a large uncompleted scheme designed for the university by Charles Holden.
It has a rich history:
- Commissioned as the first purpose-built home and central headquarters of the University of London.
- Welcoming its first occupants in 1936, a century after the University was granted its Charter.
- Designed as the centre-piece of architect Charles Holden’s plan for a campus that, in the words of visionary Vice-Chancellor William Beveridge, would be “something that could not have been built by any earlier generation than this… an academic island in swirling tides of traffic, a world of learning in a world of affairs.
Read more here, courtesy of The University of London, and watch the video, below, to learn more before you go.
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