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The late 1980s were difficult times financially for universities including the new college. She closed the Chemistry Department, for which the extensive Bourne building had been constructed in the late 1960s, as chemistry had become too expensive a subject. She reduced staff across all departments
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In 1981 she became Principal of Bedford College. The 1982 partnership agreement between Bedford and Royal Holloway was signed as a result of severe cuts in government spending on higher education. Discussions had taken place between Wedderburn and Holloway's then principal,
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at a ceremony at Royal Holloway's chapel. Wedderburn was appointed as first principal of the merged college and served from 1985 to 1990, and was also the last principal of Bedford.
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in London, then part of the University of London, from 1965 to 1981. At Imperial she was head of the Department of Social and Economic Studies from 1978 to 1981.
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of the University of London from 1986 to 1988. From 1981 to 2003 she was also a senior research fellow at Imperial College. She was Honorary President of the
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A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011 online edition, subscription based, November 2011, accessed 27 April 2012
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from 1946 to 1966, did research in applied economics at Cambridge and then worked as a lecturer, and subsequently reader and professor, in
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She was married twice: to the economic historian A N "Max" Cole from whom she was divorced in 1960. From 1962 to 1968, she was married to
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The official title (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College) is still retained, but for everyday use the college is now referred to as
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c. 1770) were sold for a total of ÂŖ21m. Holloway's remaining paintings were worth about ÂŖ17m, but probably now substantially more.
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in the 1940s, but ended her membership of the party in the late 1950s, while remaining on the left of the labour movement.
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normally offered to former female principals. There is no explanation given in any of the published obituaries.
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and, more controversially, agreed to the sale of the three most valuable paintings in RHC's collection.
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from 1986 to 2002. From 1998 to 2000, she was chair of the Committee of Enquiry into Women in Prison.
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Victorian Taste – The complete catalogue of paintings at the Royal Holloway College
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Van Tromp going about to please his Masters, Ships at Sea, getting a good wetting
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or simply Royal Holloway, London. On leaving Royal Holloway she declined the
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Bedford College, Cambridge University, Imperial College, University of London
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People associated with Royal Holloway, University of London
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in the 1970s and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the
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Wedderburn wrote extensively on social issues including
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Leicester Galleries archive; accessed 2 September 2013
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The history of the Royal Holloway College 1886–1986
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British
Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton
Bedford College
University of London
Royal Holloway College
Walthamstow
Walthamstow County High School for Girls
Girton College, Cambridge
Communist Party
Board of Trade
industrial sociology
Imperial College of Science and Technology
Dr Lionel Butler
Dr Roy Miller
Her Majesty The Queen
Royal Holloway, University of London
damehood
J. M. W. Turner
John Constable
Thomas Gainsborough
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Fawcett Society
Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton
George
Royal Statistical Society
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
University of Essex
Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven

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