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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...