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Waugh on Cruttwell
Radio 4’s World at One visited Hertford to discuss Evelyn Waugh’s novels, which are being published in a new edition by Oxford University Press. Listen (around 25:00) to hear about Waugh’s feud with...
Geoffrey Ellis FRHistS
We report with great sadness the death of historian and Emeritus Fellow Geoffrey Ellis, who died on 20 August 2017. The funeral will be on 4 September at 2.30pm, at All Saints’ Church, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. A full t...
Hertford360 Success!
We are delighted to announce the success of hertford360: from January to July, 71 dedicated Hertfordians (alumni, students, friends, and staff) virtually circumnavigated the globe, clocking up a massive 40,238km through ...
Mongolian Adventure
Once again, the rugby club was honoured to be invited to Mongolia to partake in a rugby and academic outreach tour. The tour began with a five day training camp out in the mountains to the North-East of Ulaanbaatar, wher...
RSC honour for Claire Vallance
Claire Vallance FRSC, Hertford’s professorial fellow and tutor in Physical Chemistry, has been declared President Elect of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Claire studied in New Zealand and h...
Charity Cross-Channel Swim
Naomi Vides (Maths, 2002) successfully completed a cross-channel swim on 15 August to raise money for Reverse Rett, a charity whose work is dedicated to accelerating treatment and researching cures for Rett Syndrome. To ...
Hertford playwright recognised
Congratulations to Hertfordian Titas Halder (English 2005) who has been nominated in the ‘Best Writer’ category of The Stage‘s Debut Awards 2017. Titas’s play Run the Beast Down was performed a...
Helen Alexander 1957-2017
“It is with huge sadness that we report the death of Dame Helen Alexander, Honorary Fellow of Hertford, former chair of our Remuneration Committee, and great friend of the College (Geography, 1975). A former Chief ...
Hertfordian for Balliol
We’re delighted that alumna Dame Helen Ghosh has been appointed the next Master of Balliol College, following in the footsteps of Professor Sir Dummond Bone. Dame Helen read Modern History as an undergraduate at S...
Open days 2017
Thanks to everyone who came to our open days on 28 and 29 June, and to the great team of students in bright pink ‘Ask me’ t-shirts for all their hard work making everyone welcome. Our final open day of the ye...