Editing University of London (section)

==Literature and popular culture==
{{See also|Category:University of London in fiction}}

===Literature===
[[Dr. Watson]], a fictional character in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories by [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], received his medical degree<ref name="WP Life">{{cite book|last=Peschel|first=Bill|title=The Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer: Volume 1 of Rugeley Poisoner| publisher=Peschel Press, 2016}}</ref><ref name="MX SH">{{cite book|last=Marcum|first=David|title=The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part V: Christmas Adventures - Volume 5 of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories|date=4 February 2020| publisher=Andrews UK Limited, 2016|isbn=9781780929989}}</ref><ref name="Mystery Millions">{{cite book|last=Furneaux|first=Rupert|title=The World's Strangest Mysteries: Happenings that Have Intrigued and Baffled Millions| publisher=Odhams Press, 1961}}</ref> from [[Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry]] (now part of QMUL) and met Sherlock Holmes in the chemical laboratory there.<ref name="WP Life"/><ref name="London Holmes">{{cite book|last=Christopher|first=John|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes|date=15 July 2012| publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited, 2012|isbn=9781445615684}}</ref> [[Jim Hacker]], a fictional character in the 1980s [[British sitcom]] ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and its sequel ''[[Yes, Prime Minister]]'', received his degree, a third, from the university (LSE).<ref name="UOL LSE Films">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2016/02/22/lse-on-screen/|title=LSE on the big and the small screen|first=Sue |last=Donnelly|website=LSE|date=22 February 2016 |access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref>

The use of [[Senate House, London|Senate House]] by the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]] during the Second World War inspired books two noted English writers: [[Graham Greene]] set his novel ''[[The Ministry of Fear]]'' (1943) and its film adaptation ''[[Ministry of Fear]]'' by [[Fritz Lang]] (1944) in Bloomsbury.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXyiBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Senate+House%22+%22Ministry+of+Fear%22&pg=PA285|title=The Intelligible Metropolis: Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels|date=2014|page=285|publisher=Transcript Verlag|last=Pleßke|first=Nora|isbn=9783839426722|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> [[George Orwell]]'s wife Eileen worked in Senate House for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information,<ref name="Hill">{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2003/11/senate_house_un.html|title=Senate House, University of London|date=22 November 2003|publisher=City of Sound|last=Hill|first=Dan|access-date=27 May 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090803001023/http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2003/11/senate_house_un.html |archive-date= Aug 3, 2009 }}</ref> and her experiences inspired the description of the [[Ministry of Truth]] in Orwell's 1949 novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.

===Films and others===
A lecturer at the university (SOAS) named [[William Montgomery McGovern|William McGovern]] was one of the [[Indiana Jones (character)#Historical models|real-life inspirations]] of the film character [[Indiana Jones (character)|Indiana Jones]].<ref name="SOAS Indiana Jones">{{cite web|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem104621.html|publisher=[[SOAS, University of London]]|title=SOAS' incognito academic inspires world's most famous fictional archaeologist|access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref>

Senate House and the constituent colleges of the University of London have been featured in Hollywood and British films.<ref name="films">{{cite web|url=http://www.ukonscreen.com/nearby.php?530000,181900,kccebdb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717150009/http://www.ukonscreen.com/nearby.php?530000,181900,kccebdb|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2011|title=UK Onscreen|access-date=16 June 2009}}</ref><ref name="film_london">{{cite web|url=http://filmlondon.org.uk/news/2007/september/open_house_london|title=Open House London|date=12 September 2007|work=Film London|access-date=29 May 2011|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820071406/http://filmlondon.org.uk/news/2007/september/open_house_london/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Iain |last=Stasukevich|title=Batman to the Max|journal=[[American Cinematographer]]|publisher=[[American Society of Cinematographers]]|volume=93|issue=8|page=34|location=Los Angeles, United States|date=1 August 2012|issn=0002-7928}}</ref><ref name="british-film-locations">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-film-locations.com/Fast-And-Furious-6-2013|title=British Film Locations|date=26 November 2014|access-date=6 March 2015|archive-date=9 March 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309125249/http://www.british-film-locations.com/Fast-And-Furious-6-2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1916, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] enrolled at the University of London and took evening courses and drawing and design classes, which later in 1920 helped land him a spot designing title cards.<ref name="Gene Hitchcock">{{cite book|last=Adair|first=Gene|title =Alfred Hitchcock: Filming Our Fears|date=2002| publisher=Oxford University Press| isbn=9780195119671}}</ref><ref name="Mark Hitchcock">{{cite book|last=William Padilla|first=Mark|title =Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock|date=2016| publisher=Lexington Books| isbn=9781498529167}}</ref><ref name="Charlotte Hitchcock">{{cite book|last= Chandler|first= Charlotte|title =It's Only a Movie - Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography|date=March 2006| publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books| isbn=9781476849409}}</ref><ref name="10 films Alfred">{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-influenced-alfred-hitchcock|title=10 great films that influenced Alfred Hitchcock|date=March 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=2 April 2022}}</ref>