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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,...
Elephants and Hertford scholarship: get involved
Anabelle Cardoso, studing for a DPhil in the School of Geography and the recipient of Hertford’s Mortimer May Scholarship, has been continuing her work on forest elephants. Her recent blog outlines their use of cit...
Project Shoebox
Project Shoebox started in 2014 and collects unused toiletries and non-perishable foods to pack into gift boxes and food hampers, which are then given out to women and their families who are in Oxfordshire domestic abuse...
Recognition at last for Hertfordian
Among her many other accolades, Hertford alumna Fiona Bruce has now been recognised by sheep. An experiment to show that sheep could be trained to recognise celebrity faces for food reward included her picture alongside ...
Singing lacemakers
Hertford historian David Hopkin is working on a new TORCH project ‘Tellings: Reconstructing the Repertoire of Songs used in English Lace Schools’. The project will end with a performance at the Museum of Rur...
Poem of the week
Congratulations to Hertfordian Will Harris (English, 2007), whose poem ‘Bee Glue’ was chosen by Carol Rumens as The Guardian’s Poem of the Week. Will’s debut pamphlet, All This Is Implied, was pub...
New prizes and awards for PPE
Thanks to a generous donation from alumnus Calvin Cheng (1995) Hertford has been able to create a new set of prizes for PPE students. The prizes will be awarded to students in the second and third years, who have demonst...