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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Pocket Concert
30 Jan 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.
Live Sessions at The Packhorse
1 Feb 2026The Department of Music and The Packhorse join forces to host a regular Live Session featuring some of the University's finest acoustic and jazz acts.
Picture Gallery public opening
3 Feb 2026Enjoy the splendour of the Victorian Picture Gallery and its collection, and discover new items in our latest exhibition
Midweek Music
4 Feb 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 painting highlight talk
4 Feb 2026Join us to explore one of Royal Holloway’s paintings in detail. In this talk, we’ll be looking at ‘The Cauld Blast’ by Joshua Hargraves Sams Mann.
Politics of nature and strategies of environmental education in Indonesia
4 Feb 2026The aim of this talk is to explore the transformation of the politics of nature focusing on deforestation in Indonesia and the cultural strategies of environmental education that have emerged therein.
Folk Connections: Ruby Hughes and Huw Watkins
5 Feb 2026Join us for this programme from the internationally acclaimed soprano and one of the UK's leading composer-pianists.
Pocket Concert
6 Feb 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.
Picture Gallery public opening
10 Feb 2026Enjoy the splendour of the Victorian Picture Gallery and its collection, and discover new items in our latest exhibition
In defence of a critical business school
10 Feb 2026Inaugural Lecture of Professor Alan Bradshaw, Royal Holloway Business School
'From display to shared making'
10 Feb 2026Join us for our recent Department of Music Research Seminar, featuring some of the world's leading researchers in music.
Midweek Music
11 Feb 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.
The promise and discontent of a digital Fortunoff Archive
11 Feb 2026This talk will cover the history of the archive and several of the challenges as well as benefits inherent to this transition from the analogue to digital, both technical and curatorial, and ethical.
Jazz Session: Emily Francis Trio
12 Feb 2026A front runner of the "Prog-Jazz" genre, the Emily Francis Trio know no bounds when it comes to hard hitting riffs and sonic experimentation.
Panoramas: from immersive media and colonial propaganda to interactive play
12 Feb 2026An evening investigating the visual culture format of the panorama and its artistic impact and responses, using Royal Holloway’s Picture Gallery collection.
Pocket Concert
13 Feb 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.
