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Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HU United Kingdom Get Directions
Phone 020 7862 8500
Website https://www.london.ac.uk/about/services/senate-house-library

Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London, immediately to the north of the British Museum.

The Art Deco building was constructed between 1932 and 1937 as the first phase of a large uncompleted scheme designed for the university by Charles Holden. It consists of 19 floors and is 210 feet (64 m) high.[1]

During the Second World War, the building’s use by the Ministry of Information inspired two works of fiction by English writers. The earliest, Graham Greene‘s novel The Ministry of Fear (1943), inspired a 1944 film adaptation directed by Fritz Lang set in Bloomsbury.[2] The description of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell‘s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) evokes the Senate House. His wife Eileen worked in the building for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information.[3]

Today the main building houses the University of London’s Central Academic Bodies and activities, including the offices of the vice-chancellor of the university, the entire collection of the Senate House Library, six of the eight research institutes of the School of Advanced Study, as well as departments of distance learning provider University of London Worldwide.

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London Anthropology Day 2025

Senate House Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

London Anthropology Day (LAD) is a FREE annual university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, undergraduate or graduate students interested in Master’s degrees, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Go to the LAD website to find more information Join the notification list to receive a notification email when booking […]

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