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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.
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&#...