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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 ...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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&#...
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...
(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...
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!
Professor David Daniell (1929-2016)
It is with great sadness that we report the death on 1 June 2016 of Professor David John Daniell, scholar of Shakespeare and of Tyndale, and Hertford Honorary Fellow since 1998. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held on ...
Shakespearean spoiler alerts
Even if – like most people – you have no interest in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, you probably are pretty clear what will happen immediately after the play’s King and his three noblem...