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18 July 2016

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...

13 July 2016

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.

12 July 2016

New author in Hertford MCR

We are proud to announce the publication of graduate student Sam Levin’s book A School of Our Own: The Story of the First Student-Run High School and a New Vision for American Education. Sam is working on a DPhil ...

4 July 2016

Proms debut

Second-year English student Beth Potter will be part of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s BBC Prom this summer. The NYOS concert is at 3.45 on Sunday 7 August, and features a new commission by Helen Grime,...

1 July 2016

Diversifying portraiture

The University of Oxford have recently launched the Diversifying Portraiture Project which plans to commission around 25 new portraits. Perhaps they were inspired by our exhibition celebrating co-education in 2014-15 or ...

1 July 2016

Brexit: the constitutional fallout

Amid the turmoil of post-referendum politics, a voice of reasoned argument: Hertford’s constitutional lawyer Dr Alison Young has written a blog for the UK Constitutional Law association on the immediate constitutio...

30 June 2016

Teaching award

At the annual conference of the National Association of Teachers of English in Stratford-upon-Avon, Hertford’s Emma Smith was presented with an award for ‘outstanding contribution to the teaching of English&#...

20 June 2016

Voter registration success

Thanks to great work by members of the JCR, Hertford has the highest proportion of students registered to vote in the EU referendum – 77%. Former JCR president Holly Redford-Jones was presented with a prize by Prof...

20 June 2016

(More) powerful women

Many congratulations to Hertfordians Lily Erskine (2nd year Modern Languages) and Lily Goodyear-Sait (3rd year Biology), who will be heading to Minsk as part of the Oxford University Women’s Powerlifting Team. Lily...

9 June 2016

Hertford to Rio

TeamGB have just announced that Hertford alumna Zoe Lee (Geography, 2004) will join the rowing squad at this summer’s Olympics. Zoe will be part of the women’s eight. Fear the deer!