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6 November 2024

Professor Pat Roche elected interim Principal

Governing Body has elected Professor Patrick Roche as Hertford College’s interim Principal, following Tom Fletcher’s recent appointment as the UN’s next Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergenc...

25 October 2024

Dr Martin Maiden Elected as Biology Department Head

We are thrilled to announce that another of our fellows has been appointed to a prestigious role within the university. Dr. Martin Maiden, our Tutorial Fellow in Biology and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, will assu...

22 October 2024

Hertford and Co-Residence

‘the College would be a more agreeable community if it included women members’   2024 is the year in which we celebrate the 50 years since women were first admitted to Hertford. We were among the first five trad...

18 October 2024

Congratulations to Hertford Fellow Louise Slater

Double celebrations are in order for Hertford Geography Fellow Professor Louise Slater, as she has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize and appointed as the new Associate Head (Research and Impact) of the S...

9 October 2024

An Announcement from the Principal

Dear Hertford Community,  There are two roles in which I never believed I would get the chance to serve. One is Hertford Principal, at the college that changed my life when I arrived here three decades ago this week. Th...

11 September 2024

Hertford Fellow Emma Smith joins RSC Board

Today, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that Professor Emma Smith will join the Company’s Board, following their AGM. At Hertford, Professor Smith is a Tutorial Fellow in English and Fellow Librarian a...

10 September 2024

Professor Sir David Goldberg 1934 – 2024

We were saddened to hear of the death of alumnus and Honorary Fellow Professor Sir David Goldberg. Sir David studied medicine and psychology at Hertford, before taking up further training at St Thomas’ and the Maudsley...

14 August 2024

Honorary Fellow meets stars at the Paris Olympics

Honorary Fellow and alumnus Richard Fisher (1972, Latin American Politics) got in touch to share some wet but wonderful pictures of the Paris Olympics, where he met some of the most talked about non-athletes: Snoop Dogg ...

6 August 2024

Olympic Hertfordians of History: Thum Ping Tjin the Swimmer

The 1996 Atlanta Olympics were a fascinating coalition of historical firsts. It witnessed the (rather late) additions of several women’s sports, including women’s football, and women’s épée fencing. It also debut...

1 August 2024

Making History: Hertford Alum is named as a ’30 under 30′ historian

Hertford alumna Ciara Garcha has made the ’30 under 30′ list of young historians by History Extra, the BBC’s History Magazine website. Ciara (2020, History) left Hertford to complete a Masters at Ballio...