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Equalities Week
Openness, diversity, and equality are values that are at the core of Hertford life throughout the year, but during February they have been at the forefront more than usual. We celebrated the centenary of the Representat...
Milestone donation of two million dollars
Hertford is celebrating a momentous milestone: the largest donation in the college’s modern history. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of a Hertford alumnus, a $2,000,000 fund has been set up at the college to pro...
Welcome new Fellows
This year we have welcomed a number of new academics to the college fellowship: Computer Science: Dr Andrew Cropper Dr Cropper studied at Imperial College, London, before coming to Hertford in 2018 as a Junior Research F...
Torpids 2018
We have college boats racing in Torpids all of this week. Why not come down to the river (weather permitting) to cheer on Hertford. Keep checking here and on the Boat Club Website for updates on racing and schedules. #fe...
New book on Alain Locke
This month sees the publication of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart: “A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to ment...
200 problem-solving students
Around 200 talented young people arrived at the University over two weekends in January and February to take part in the finals of a computational challenge held in the department and at Hertford College. They were the t...
The Courtier’s Library
Discovered in a trunk in Westminster Abbey in 2016, scholars have recently produced a new transcription of John Donne’s Catalogus librorum satyricus also known as The Courtier’s Library. The manuscript (WA...
College Archive Appeal
2024 will see 150 years since the incorporation of Hertford College in 1874. To mark this anniversary, Professor Christopher Tyerman has been commissioned to write a history of the College and its predecessor bodies, M...
Science on your doorstep
Our very own Professor Pat Roche, Tutorial Fellow in Physics, will be explaining how we know that black holes exists and the new technologies being used to investigate this part of space as part of Oxford Science. The t...
#100years – Votes for Women
To mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 – the Act of Parliament that allowed women over the age of 30 and ‘of property’ the vote for the first time in British history –Â...