Self Guided Campus Tour

History in brief...

1882 Westfield College established with the specific objective of preparing women for degrees from the University of London 1887 Queen Victoria formally opens the Queen’s Hall of the People’s Palace, the establishment of what is now Queen Mary, University of London, to provide a library, reading rooms, a swimming pool, gymnasium and winter gardens for the local people 1915 Fully admitted as a School of the University of London in the Faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering 1938 Students, staff and College administration transfer to Cambridge for the duration of the war; men to King’s College and women initially to Girton College. Queen Mary College is used as a base for the armed forces.

1995 Queen Mary and Westfield College merges with St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College and The London Hospital Medical College.

2000 College adopts the working name Queen Mary, University of London, retaining its legal title as Queen Mary and Westfield College Information from From Palace to College published by Queen Mary College, 1985