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Online Exhibitions

  • ‘Riots, Rogues and Rebellions’: Fighting for “Votes for Women!”
    This online exhibition explores the role of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists in the fight to gain women the right to vote. Click on the buttons to find out how […]
  • By Royal Appointment…
    Free exhibition open May 2023 – September 2023 Monarchs of the United Kingdom have been acknowledging their favoured suppliers since mediaeval times. The first Royal Warrants of Appointment were awarded […]
  • Thomas Holloway’s Two Legacies
    by Anna Kutuzova The opening of both institutions, but especially the university for women, attracted a lot of attention bringing much fame not only to the people involved into the […]
  • Egham and the Empire: 19th-30th July 2022
    An exhibition which engages with the photographs and objects from the collections of Egham Museum to explore how ordinary British people and communities interacted with the wider British Empire. Links […]
  • Picturing Egham – Part 3
    Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here The final section of this exhibition features the works of women artists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Our journey ends with […]
  • Picturing Egham – Part 2
    Read Part 1 here. The journey through the Egham Museum’s art collection continues into the beginning of the twentieth century. In this section, we delve into the artistic practices of […]
  • Picturing Egham – Part 1
    Egham has always been quite picturesque. Embraced by green fields and historical landmarks, Egham and its surroundings have been ideal subjects for artists across centuries. Both local and visiting artists […]
  • Location, Location, Location – Part 3
    READ PART 1 HERE READ PART 2 HERE Ordinary Life Roads, pavements, junctions are all much the same. Journeys, car chases and ordinary features of suburban life have to be […]
  • Location, Location, Location – Part 2
    READ PART 1 HERE Lush Natural Scenery We are fortunate to live close to areas of outstanding beauty and the area around Virginia Water is much in demand for rural […]
  • Location, Location, Location – Part 1
    Egham High Street has been home to two cinemas. The Gem Cinema opened in 1910 in a new building between 167 High Street and a private house, Aubrey Haw. It […]
  • St John’s Church building at 200 – Part 3
    Celebrating the bicentenary of the current building of St John’s Church, 1820-2020 Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here Notable Connections The current church was built at a time […]
  • St John’s Church building at 200 – Part 2
    Celebrating the bicentenary of the current building of St John’s Church, 1820-2020 Read Part 1 here The Sound of the Church The building was designed as an ‘auditory room’ with […]
  • St John’s Church building at 200 – Part 1
    Celebrating the bicentenary of the current building of St John’s Church, 1820-2020 An introduction to St John’s Church The year 2020 marks 200 years since the first service was held […]
  • Health, Holloway and Hype Part 4
    Read parts 1, 2 and 3 here From Holloway Sanatorium to Virginia Park Building a Reputation On 19 April 1861, Thomas Holloway met Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury.  […]
  • Health, Holloway and Hype Part 3
    Read parts 1 and 2 here Holloway Sanatorium and Mental Illness pre-1948 Holloway Sanatorium was a place designed to take mental illness out of respectable society in the nineteenth century.  […]
  • Health, Holloway and Hype Part 2
    Read part 1 here Holloway Sanatorium: Treatments, Staff and the NHS Treatments: A Healthy State of Mind Prior to the advent of the NHS in 1948, Holloway Sanatorium was intended […]
  • Health, Holloway and Hype Part 1
    Thomas Holloway: The Marketing Giant Fortune and Legacy Thomas Holloway was born in Devonport in Devon on 22 September 1800.  A self-made man with an eye for marketing, Holloway amassed […]
  • Women: Wives, Workers & War Part 2
    Read part one of Women: Wives, Workers and War here. Pre-war Life for Women Before the Great War, the reality of nineteenth and early twentieth century women was one of […]
  • Women: Wives, Workers & War Part 1
    Introduction & Acknowledgements The Egham Museum’s previous exhibition Suffrage in Egham, explored the roles of women and their fight locally and nationally for the right to vote.  However, 2018 not […]
  • Educating Egham Part 4
    Read parts 1, 2 and 3 here Educating Girls The earliest schools were intended only for boys – even when benefactors such as Henry Strode left money for the education […]
  • Educating Egham Part 3
    Read part 1 here and part 2 here School Rules Attendance: from the Egham School Board Bye-Laws 1901 No 2: “The parent of every child of not less than 5, […]
  • Educating Egham Part 2
    Read part 1 here Private Education Although Strode’s was a free school for the poor, its early headmasters supplemented their income by taking private pupils.  Some individuals earned money by setting […]
  • Educating Egham Part 1
    The first recorded school in Egham seems to have been Strode’s School, built in 1706 from money left by Henry Strode, ‘for the learning and edifying of the poor children […]
  • Egham’s Home Front: Welfare and Healthcare in World War Two
    Women’s Work As they had in the first world war, the lives of women changed drastically during World War Two. Domestic service came to an end for many. Jobs outside […]
  • Henry Strode and his Legacy
    Henry Strode (1645-1704) Henry Strode (1645-1704), was born into an old Egham family but lived most of his life in London with his father.  Strode’s father was a member of […]
  • The Railway comes to Egham
    Planning & Opening Plans for a railway line to connect Egham with Waterloo were first proposed as early as 1846.  In 1852, the Staines, Wokingham & Woking Junction Railway was […]
  • The Plague Comes To Egham
    Plague was a common occurrence in Early Modern England.  Across the country, thousands of people died and communities were devastated. The widely accepted cause of plague was the miasma theory; […]
  • Leacroft, Cowell, Egham: A Woman In A Man’s World
    Listen to Peer Productions’ pilot podcast about forgotten woman Roberta Cowell.  Recorded live in December 2017 at the Studio Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell:. Even before World War […]