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1 October 2015

Horsedung, crusader castles and marauding students

Religious war isn’t an irrational act, and we shouldn’t dismiss it as irrational. This month’s BBC History magazine interviews Hertford’s Professor of the History of the Crusades, Christopher Tyer...

24 September 2015

Tanner Day report

Professor Pat Roche’s account of the Tanner day celebrations was published in the Oxford Mail this week. Thanks to all our speakers and alumni who made it such a success. Pat reviews Hertford’s role in chang...

23 September 2015

Guru-Murthy: ‘why Oxford was right for me’

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 news journalist and fomer Hertford PPEist, talks about why Oxford was right for him: “Just apply. Whatever you’re worried about about Oxford, it’s probably not true.̶...

17 September 2015

Open Day tomorrow!

Tomorrow (Friday 18 September) is the third of our annual Open Days, and your last chance to come to look around Hertford before the Oxbridge application deadline (15 October). Our tutors will give talks on all the subje...

25 August 2015

Not a Ferrero Rocher* in sight

Tom Fletcher, Hertford Honorary Fellow (History and Politics, 1994) has just completed a four-year posting as Ambassador to Lebanon. This BBC interview describes his unpompous attitude to the role, his dislike of the add...

17 August 2015

Graduate Innovation Competition winners

The inaugural Hertford Graduate Initiative Fund Competition elicited a variety of entrepreneurial ideas from Hertford graduate students, ranging from biotechnology start-ups to a firm specialising in cultural consulting....

5 August 2015

Hertford philosopher on Hume

Hertford’s Peter Millican can be heard on BBC Radio 4’s A History of Ideas (4 August 2015), discussing David Hume’s assessment of the strength of testimonial evidence with reference to reports of mira...

3 August 2015

Gibbs Prizes for Hertford undergraduates

Congratulations to Hertford undergraduates who have been awarded Gibbs prizes for excellent performance in university examinations. Benjamin Dawes:  the Gibbs Prize for Computer Science and Philosophy at the end of his ...

3 August 2015

Paul Langford 1945-2015

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of Professor Paul Langford FBA, former Rector of Lincoln and an Honorary Fellow of Hertford, his undergraduate college. We will announce the arrangements for a m...

27 July 2015

BA medal for Roy Foster

Congratulations to Professor Roy Foster, whose latest book has been awared a British Academy Medal for 2015. The British Academy Medals were established to recognise outstanding academic work, and this year the Academy ...