Bloomsbury – Huron's new home

Huron’s new campus, opened in January 2004, lies beside one of the city’s oldest and largest garden squares – Russell Square – in the middle of the Bloomsbury district of London. For centuries Bloomsbury has been at the academic and literary heart of central London.

The campus consists of two large Victorian buildings that have been full refurbished and configured to provide an extensive and state-of-the-art educational facility not normally found in small universities. The classrooms have an extensive range of the latest multimedia learning tools, and the buildings boast the latest IT and computing facilities including wireless technology.

Huron students also have full access to the Senate House Library, one of the largest academic libraries in London and only a two minutes walk from the main campus buildings.

Home to the oldest and largest concentration of universities in London, Bloomsbury hosts some of the most extensive and diverse university libraries and educational facilities in the world. Huron students have access to many of them. Bloomsbury’s associations are not only academic ones. As one of London’s major cultural quarters it has been the home of the British Museum for 250 years. The British Museum hosts the UK’s greatest collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures and is home to the spectacular Great Court and magnificent reference library and study spaces of the Reading Room. This is where Karl Marx wrote “Das Kapital” and Oscar Wilde worked on his plays. Other famous patrons of the library include Arthur Conan Doyle (the author of Sherlock Holmes), Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) and Lenin. A short stroll from Bloomsbury is the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.

Within a couple of minutes walk of the Campus are the shopping malls and cinema complexes of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. Scarcely further away are the gardens and open air theatre of Regent’s Park, the street life of Covent Garden, the theatre district of Shaftesbury Avenue and Piccadilly, the clubs of Soho, the bookstores of Charing Cross Road, and the exotic restaurants of Chinatown and Charlotte Street. The Financial and legal districts of London are close by, and the street markets and nightlife of Camden and Islington are also within easy reach.

With such a unique wealth of learning and cultural resources at their fingertips Huron’s students have a location second to none.

Russell Square (within 5 minutes walk of the Campus)

1. School Oriental and African Studies

2. School of Eastern European Studies

3. Birkbeck College

4. University College London (access to gym etc. for Huron students)

5. Senate House Library (access to library for Huron students)

6. Institute of Commonwealth Studies

7. Institute of Education

8. Institute of Historical Research

9. German Historical Institute

10. British Museum (access to reading room for Huron students)

11. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)

12. University of London Student Union (access for Huron students)

13. British Library

Bloomsbury and Surrounding Area (10-15 minutes walk)

1. London School of Economics (access to library for Huron students)

2. St Martins School of Art

3. The largest academic bookshops in London (Waterstone’s and Foyles)

4. Covent Garden

5. Oxford Street

6. West End Theatre District