As revealed last week, there’s always something happening that our student community can get involved in and this week we’re marking Explore your Archives Week. This national week runs from 19 November until 27 November.

We’re rather fortunate that here at Royal Holloway we have a rich and prestigious history, especially when it comes to the history of women’s education.

Did you know that famous suffragette Emily Wilding Davison studied here in the 1890s?

To mark this special occasion in 2016, our College Archives and Special Collections team are celebrating our special collection from Half Moon Theatre.

This exhibition will be running until the end of term (9 December) in the Caryl Churchill Theatre so there’s still plenty of time to see the programmes, photographs and posters from the history of the Half Moon Theatre.

The theatre company was founded in 1972 in the East End of London and is known for producing radical and politically charged plays in its early years. These included Steven Berkoff’s Sink the Belgrano and Hamlet, which featured Frances de la Tour as the eponymous character.

We have a wide collection of Archives, including materials relating to theatre, at Royal Holloway and often run special events or exhibitions that let our students gain an insight into our past.

Our new Library and Student Services Centre will have space for regular exhibitions when the building opens in autumn 2017, bringing our students closer to our history.