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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Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Elwin and Guests
22 Jan 2026As part of our Alumni Spotlight series, which platforms some of Royal Holloway's esteemed alumni, we are thrilled to welcome back star of the opera stage, Thomas Elwin.
The Choir of Royal Holloway at Reading Town Hall
22 Jan 2026The Choir of Royal Holloway perform a programme From darkness to light in Reading Town Hall. The programme features a wide variety of music taking the audience on a journey from darkness to light.
Pocket Concert
23 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.
Packing for an unknown destination: possession and dispossession in the Holocaust
26 Jan 2026The David Cesarani Holocaust Memorial Lecture by Professor Zoë Waxman.
Mathematicians (mostly) in the zone of totality
27 Jan 2026This talk will explore some triumphs and tribulations encountered by 19th-century mathematical practitioners and their connections to today.
'Beyond The Integrated Soundtrack'
27 Jan 2026Join us for our recent Department of Music Research Seminar, featuring some of the world's leading researchers in music.
Midweek Music
28 Jan 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.
A golden string - thoughts on place-based storytelling
29 Jan 2026Inaugural Lecture of Professor Adam Ganz, Department of Media Arts
YCAT presents... Kasparas Mikužis
29 Jan 2026We are excited to welcome Kasparas to Royal Holloway for an evening of Beethoven, Ravel, and Godowsky.
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.
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.
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.
In defence of a critical business school
10 Feb 2026Inaugural Lecture of Professor Alan Bradshaw, Royal Holloway Business School
