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Project Shoebox Success
Following our call to Hertfordians to support this year’s Project Shoebox initiative, we are delighted to be able to announce that we managed to fill 40 shoeboxes and 10 sacks with essential toiletries, gifts, and ...
2017 Oku Memorial Trophy
The Oku Memorial Trophy was contested for the 14th time at the Richmond Athletic Ground on Saturday 2nd December between a Hertford College Past & Present XV, London Japanese and the Kew Occasionals. The event ho...
Prime Ministers and Europe since Thatcher
During Michaelmas term, Hertford has held a series of lectures on each Prime Minister’s relationship with Europe since Margaret Thatcher by an individual who worked closely with that leader. The lectures were held ...
Jonathan Swift 350
As well as being the Feast Day of St Andrew (happy St Andrew’s Day to all our Scottish alumni and friends), today marks the 350th birthday of cleric and writer Jonathan Swift. Born in Dublin of English descent, Swi...
La Vuelta a Cadiz
Four 1994 alumni undertook a Hertford-inspired bike ride to Cadiz this summer. Nick Jefferson wrote this piece about it: ‘Friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a ...
High Court appointments
We are delighted to announce that two Hertford alumni have been appointed judges in the Queen’s Bench Division in the High Court, both of whom took their appointments last month. Peter Lane (1971) read law at Hertf...
Head of the Charles
On 20 October a crew of ex-Hertford rowers embarked on a trip across the pond to Boston, MA, to tackle the Head of the Charles. The crew consists of largely office-fit members of the 2007, 8, 9 and 10 summer eights and H...
2017 Telethon winner
Congratulations to Andrew Springett (1978) who was the winner in this year’s telethon prize draw. The prize this year was a one-week stay in a gite in Vaucluse, France, which was generously donated by Richard and S...
S*** research
It’s a Daily Mail headline waiting to happen. Hertford Geographer Jamie Lorimer is involved in a pilot study with colleagues from the Interdisciplinary Microbiome Institute  to collect data on pathogens in river...
(Dis)united Kingdom?
Congratulations to Hertford history lecturer Naomi Lloyd-Jones, who is co-editor of a new book called Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)United Kingdom. Her co-authored introduction,...