College Hall is a fully catered

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of the

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. It is situated on Malet Street in the

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district of

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. It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University, including King's College,

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, Queen Mary, the

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and the

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amongst others.

History

The hall was established in 1882 in Byng Place to cater for female students, primarily at UCL and the

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. It was co-founded by educationalist and suffragist

Annie Leigh Browne Annie Leigh Browne (14 March 1851 – 8 March 1936) was a British educationist and Suffrage, suffragist. She co-founded College Hall, London, and funded and worked to get women elected to local government. Life Browne was born in Bridgwater in ...

, Mary Stewart Kilgour, Mary Browne ( Lady Lockyer) and Henrietta Müller.Jane Martin, ‘Browne, Annie Leigh (1851–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 12 Jan 2017
/ref> The first Principal was

Eleanor Grove Eleanor Grove (1826 – 22 November 1905) was a British translator and educationist. She was the founding principal of College Hall in London that allowed women to live in Bloomsbury and attend the University of London. She and her life long pa ...

, who arranged for lease of the house in Byng Place, assisted by Rosa Morison; the pair volunteered to take the posts with no salary. The hall was incorporated in 1886 as College Hall London, and was recognised as a hall of residence by the

in 1910. It moved to nearby Malet Street in 1932. The hall was used as a club for overseas armed forces during World War II, under lease to the

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, and was heavily damaged by bombing in April 1941. The corporation of the hall was wound up in 1965, with control passing to the University of London.

Structure

Each of the intercollegiate halls of residence is managed by a Hall Manager. Every hall also has a Warden and a number of resident Senior Members. The Hall Managers and their staff work full-time during office hours, while the Wardens and Senior Members, commonly referred to as the Wardenial staff, are part-time staff who are either studying or working in academic or academic-related roles elsewhere in the University of London. The Junior Common Room (JCR) Committee, elected by the students, provides social and sporting activities.

Transport

The nearest underground stations are

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to the west,

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to the north and

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to the east.

References

* College Hall, University of London (downloadable fro
University of London web page
* College Hall, University of London: Summer Housing (downloadable fro
University of London web page
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History

Structure

Transport

See also

References