Several of our collections include items which have been digitised and are available consult remotely.
The Elizabeth Jesser Reid correspondence project has involved the digitisation and transcription of a quantity of letters sent to Elizabeth Jesser Reid, the founder of Bedford College, and have been made available on a dedicated website https://ejrletters.omeka.net/. A volunteer project continues to work on the transcription of the Victorian handwritten letters to uncover conversations held between Mrs Reid and her close circle and open further research opportunities.
Student Records
Student Records pre 1937 have been digitised and are available to search and view on ancestry.co.uk (this is a paid subscription service) www.ancestry.co.uk
Bedford 175 exhibition
The Bedford 175 anniversary online exhibition ‘Adventurers All’ includes the digitisation and transcription of several items from the Bedford College archive: https://stories.royalholloway.ac.uk/4690a254-514c-44a2-aa9a-9934a9f4a5f3/index.html
Find out more:
Contact our Archives
archives@rhul.ac.uk
Individual appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10am to 4pm.
(Please note the archive reading room will close for lunch at 12.30pm and reopen at 1.30pm).
