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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...
New Honorary Fellows elected
We are delighted to announce the election of seven new honorary fellows: Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell, KCMG QC, Jurisprudence 1961 Sir Jeffrey is one of the UK’s most eminent lawyers. He is leading authority on public,...
LGBTQ+ History Month
February marks LGBTQ+ History month. Hertford is one of 12 Oxford colleges who will be flying the flag throughout the month to mark this.
More Newsnight
Soweto Kinch (1996), newly elected Honorary Fellow (and recent gaudy speaker), was on Newsnight last night, continuing this week’s trend of Hertford alumni on the programme. Skip to 37.10 to see Soweto talk about H...
The ‘Real’ Brexit Secretary?
Alumnus Olly Robbins (PPE 1993) was featured on BBC Newsnight, described as ‘one of the best-known unknown people in Downing Street’. Is he the man really managing Brexit? You can watch the feature on the BBC...
‘Commie Geographers’
All at Hertford are amused by an unnamed Tory source describing us as ‘Commie geographers’. You can read about it in the BBC news report on Olly Robbins (PPE, 1993), the Prime Minister’s chief advisor o...
Farewell Chagas Disease
Congratulations to third year Hertford biochemist Jei Diwakar, who was part of an Oxford group project competing at the international synthetic biology competition iGEM in Boston this November. Team Oxford won the Best D...