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Only Artists – Mark Alexander
Today on Radio 4, former Fine Art student Mark Alexander (1993) spoke with Humphrey Ocean, Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts, about his work as a painter. Mark came to Hertford as a mature student wi...
Oxford Literary Festival
Michael Wooldridge, Senior Research Fellow and head of the Department of Computer Science, will be speaking about artificial intelligence at the Oxford Literary Festival at 2pm on Monday 19 March. His talk marks the ...
Head of the River rowing
Both the men and women entered a crew of eight into the Head of the River Race and Women’s Eights Head of the River Race (HoRR, WeHoRR) at the weekend. The event is a “head race” or time trial, with bot...
Heaven’s Gate #flashbackfriday
Written and directed by Michael Cimino, the 1980 film Heaven’s Gate has gone down in Hollywood history as being one of the all-time greatest movie flops. Costing some $44m to produce, the film only earned $3.5m in...
Ewa Gluza – Inspiring the Community
As part of centenary celebrations marking 100 years since women were given the right to vote in Poland, the Polish Embassy in the UK has been running an initiative to highlight ‘exceptional women who inspire the Po...
International Women’s Day – ‘A Curious Herbal’
As part of International Women’s Day our college librarian, Alice Roques, organised an exhibition of recently restored library treasures by female authors. Among the library’s collections are both volumes of ...
Universities UK – USS response
Hertford College has today written to Universities UK to give notice of its decision to withdraw its response to the recent employer survey regarding USS pension changes. Further, the College has declared support for the...
Lindau Nobel Laureates
Congratulations to Hertford MCR student Louis-David (L.D) Lord, who has been selected for this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Physiology & Medicine. This follows a multi-step international selection p...
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...