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1 May 2017

Anne Holmes (1929-2017)

I.M. Anne Holmes 30 April 1929 – 9 February 2017 Anne Holmes studied in Cambridge and wrote her doctorate there on the poet Jules Laforgue. She taught French at Hertford between 1973 and 1996, becoming Fellow and T...

26 April 2017

Alain Locke portrait unveiled

As Alain Locke’s portrait (by Carl Van Vechten) was unveiled in Hertford Hall today, Rhodes Scholar Hertfordian Natalya Din-Kariuki read from his 1944 essay ‘Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary̵...

5 April 2017

Welcome to new HR Manager

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Undine BrĂĽckner, in the newly created role of HR Manager. Undine joins the College from the Cheney School Academy Group, and prior to that role was part of the Bursarial Team at The ...

25 March 2017

The Naked Diplomat

Hertford Honorary Fellow Tom Fletcher will be talking at the Oxford Literary Festival on March 25th about his book The Naked Diplomat. This book looks at how technology is changing power and diplomacy, as it always has. ...

15 March 2017

Live-stream of neuroscience seminar

As part of a visiting fellowship in Aix, Hertford DPhil student Louis-David Lord has organised a day-long computational neuroscience seminar called The Symphony of Modern Neuroscience. The proceedings will be streamed.Â...

8 March 2017

Happy International Women’s Day!

Hertfordians are marking International Women’s Day in many different ways. Law professor Alison Young has written a blog on women’s activism for transformative legal and policy strategies. She and her collabo...

6 March 2017

Torpids 2017: Fear the Deer

Best ever combined results for Hertford’s Men and Women First boats at this year’s Torpids competition. W1 finished 4th – up two places –  and M1 5th in Division I of their leagues. W2 also perfo...

1 March 2017

Alison Woollard’s Life Scientific

Don’t miss Hertford’s own Alison Woollard in conversation with Jim Al-Khalilil on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.

28 February 2017

Principal on Brexit in Geneva

Principal Will Hutton was in Geneva recently to address a large audience at the Graduate Institute, on ‘Brexit and Trump: Will the World Order Hold?’.

27 February 2017

David Waddington, 1929-2017

We are sorry to announce the death of our Honorary Fellow Lord (David) Waddington (Jurisprudence, 1947), on 23 February 2017.