‘200 years of student life in the capital’ – an illustrated talk by Georgina Brewis and Sam Blaxland at Holborn Library

Students have formed a significant part of London’s population since the foundation of its first university in 1826.

This talk centres their experiences in the city’s history and will examine students’ everyday lives, fees and funding, collegiate cultures, social and political engagement, physical and mental health, recreation, sports and leisure.

Georgina Brewis is professor of social history at UCL and Sam Blaxland, lecturer in education at UCL. They are the joint authors of Student London: a new history of higher education in the capital (UCL Press, 2026).

200 years of student life in the capital, 7.30pm Thursday 11 June 2026, at Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA. Admission £2 (free to members of the Camden History Society).

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