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Rainbow flag over Hertford
We are proud to be flying the rainbow flag this week in honour of LGBQT history week.
Brexit: a view from Hertford
If you’d like to raise your game on the question of Brexit, Hertford help is at hand. Law Fellow Alison L Young is the co-author of a new paper in European Public Law 131 (2016): ‘Regaining Sovereignty?: Brexit, ...
Professor Sir Christopher Zeeman (1925-2016)
On 13 February 2016, Professor Sir Christopher Zeeman died in his sleep at home in Oxfordshire. Sir Christopher, a renowned mathematician and communicator of mathematics, was Principal of Hertford from 1988-95. There wil...
William Gaskill (1930-2016)
Appreciations of the life and work of theatre director and Hertford alumnus William Gaskill can be read in The Guardian and The Telegraph. Gaskill began directing while at Hertford, and his style, in landmark producti...
Half-term tours
If you’re thinking of applying to Oxford and want to see what Hertford has to offer, why not come for a look around and a chance to meet a member of our admissions team? Every day during half-term (15–19 February...
Redford commission
Catherine Redford, our Outreach Fellow, was typically busy last week. She visited Chelmsford County High School for Girls and Great Baddow High School before dashing back to Oxford to welcome Westcliff High School for Bo...
Soweto Kinch on race and education
Hertford graduate and jazz musician Soweto Kinch (History, 1996) has praised David Cameron for raising the issue of race and Oxford admissions, and issued his own call for radical action in a BBC video.
‘Nice one, Mr Curry’
Second-year Hertford historian, Louise Coyne has contributed to a university video recognising the inspirational work of teachers in encouraging able students to apply to Oxford and other competitive universities. Nice o...
Alison Woollard’s Haldane Lecture
Catch up with Alison Woollard’s 2015 lecture to the Genetics Society: ‘Genetics as Revolution’. As she says, it is an exciting time to be telling this story: we are developing the power to intervene in ...
Stories of survival
Read Career Development Fellow Catherine Redford’s thought-provoking take on the appeal of survival stories – from Old English to the Oscars – in The Conversation. If you don’t already know The ...