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Miles Vaughan Williams (1918-2016)
Hertford is deeply sorry to announce the death of its Honorary Fellow and former Tutor in Medicine, Miles Vaughan Williams, who died on 31 August 2016. More details about the arrangements for his funeral service will be ...
Outreach work resumes
Today a small group of Y13s from local school, Gosford Hill, are benefitting from sessions on personal statements and the interview process. Next week Catherine has a trip out to one of our linked schools in North Kent, ...
Hambler on Muir
On the BBC World Service this weekend Human Sciences tutor Clive Hambler discusses the legacy of the Scottish emigrant to America, John Muir, in the global concept of national parks. Clive’s segment on the origins,...
Hertford alumna silver medallist in Rio
All Hertford eyes will be on the women’s coxed eight finals in Rio on Saturday. It’s been an epic year for Zoe Lee (Geography, 2004), who has made her Olympic debut and been awarded her PhD at King’s ...
Edinburgh Festival: the Hertford cut
Hertfordians are a part of the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe Festival. Mark Grimmer’s (English, 2002) 59 Productions designed the spectacular light show that opened the event (pictured); Fiona Pearce (English 2001...
RIP Simpkin III
It is with sadness that we announce the death of our College cat, Simpkin, who passed away peacefully over the weekend. He was sixteen, and the third Hertford College cat to bear the name. Simpkin joined Hertford College...
Hamlet at Hertford: the report
Just after the end of term, ten students from state schools took part in the English strand of the inaugural Hertford Access Summer School. Now, from Phoebe Hobbs – one of the participants, we have the first report on ...
School work continues
Though our term ended a month ago, schools across the country are still hard at work. So the access and outreach team are as busy as ever. At the end of last week we hosted visits from Bradfield School (Sheffield) and Sa...
Liaison with Laclos
Last week the small group of students pictured, all studying A Level French at Maria Fidelis School in Camden, came to visit Hertford. And it would be no exaggeration to say that they were seduced by the text they encoun...
New Professor of Public Law
Congratulations to Hertford Law fellow Alison Young, awarded the title of Professor of Public Law in the University’s 2016 Recognition of Distinction exercise.