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Welcome to Hertford
As schools emerge from the exam season, we’re entering a period of intense activity with a number of school visits. In a moment a group of year 10 students from the Oxford Academy will be coming in for lunch, and l...
MBE for services to football
Congratulations to Hertford alumnus David Elleray who was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014 for services to football.
Women in the Arts panel debate
Thank you to all who joined us at the Women in the Arts panel debate in London last night. Our chair Emma Smith was joined in lively debate by Hertford alumnae Catherine Bennett, Observer columnist; Kerensa Jennings, Hea...
Castell’s outreach expedition
It might look from the photo as if Dr Jamie Castell, Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, is about scale Mount Everest. In fact this is just the best way to carry around all the materials he needs for this week’s scho...
Hertford and the unfeasibly large telescope
Professor Pat Roche, Hertford Tutor in Physics, is one of a team of scientists working on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). He’s interviewed on the BBC Today programme, describing the new telescope th...
Award for Hertford journalist
Hertford has a distinguished history of journalist old members, from Catherine Bennett of the Observer to Sarah Crompton at the Telegraph, and from Krishnan Guru-Murthy at Channel 4 to Natasha Kaplinsky at ITN. The newes...
OBE for work in Afghanistan
We are proud to congratulate Sarah Montgomery (M. St. History, 2000) on the award of the OBE in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Sarah’s citation was ‘for services to Stabilisation and Developmen...
Emeritus Fellow awarded CBE
Congratulations to Emeritus Fellow and former tutor in Archaeology, Martin Biddle, who was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014.
Riot Club parody
Alex Stronell, studying History at Hertford, is a committed student journalist. His recent article on the potentially damaging impact of the film, The Riot Club, on access work at Oxford was quoted recently in the Eveni...
Inspiring Colchester
Dr Jamie Castell, Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, is in Colchester today encouraging students at the Sixth Form College to have the highest possible academic aspirations. After delivering five sessions there, he’...