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Venue and Other Useful
Information
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Conference
Location
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Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Hill
EGHAM
TW20 0EX
Tel: +44 1784 434455
Fax: +44 1784 437520
Website
See the Googlemap here or by typing ECIME 2008, Egham into Google Maps.
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University Logo
Aerial view of Royal Holloway
Founders building
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University information
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Royal Holloway
College was founded by the Victorian
entrepreneur, Thomas Holloway as a college for the higher education of bright
young women. Almost 100 years later, Royal Holloway merged with Bedford College, another pioneering
institution founded in 1849 by Elizabeth Jesser Reid. The colleges became
part of the University
of London before the
turn of the century, when the University first awarded degrees to women, and
both began to admit male undergraduates from 1965.
The relocation of Bedford
to the Royal Holloway campus in 1985 has built on the strengths of both to
create a first-class academic environment for generations to come.
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Conference Dinner venue
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The conference dinner was held on a cruising restaurant,
cruising along the Thames.
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General information
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Egham is a small town in south east England, 19 miles southwest of central London and situated on the river Thames.
There has been a settlement in the area since the 7th Century and
it is perhaps best known for the manorial grounds of Runnymede,
where the Magna Carta was sealed in 1215.
Although Egham is part of the London
commuter belt, it is surrounded by parkland and woodland. Windsor Great
Park, part of the Crown Estates for
Windsor Caste, is just seven miles away and other places of interest include Savill Gardens, The Swan Sanctuary, Runnymede
Pleasure Grounds, The John F Kennedy and Magna Carta Memorials and Langham
Ponds.
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Other useful links
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Wikipedia information for Egham
Enjoy England tourism site for Egham
Airport
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Manchester and all major UK airports
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