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Gerard (Gerry) McCrum, 1927-2013
We are sorry to announce the death last night (20 October 2013) of Emeritus Fellow Gerry McCrum, former Tutor in Engineering Science, who was elected in 1966. Update: Tony Wilson, the current Tutor in Engineering, wrot...
Access motors on
After the success of the Access Day (pictured) which launched the celebrations for the centenary of the Hertford bridge, we have been keeping up the access momentum. This week we have three schools visiting the college: ...
Photos from the Bridge Centenary Celebrations
We recently marked the 100th anniversary of the construction of Hertford’s bridge over New College Lane with a series of events on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th September. The programme began with an access day for...
Hertford students’ starring role
Brand new videos on fourteen of the courses taught at Oxford have just been added to the University Admissions pages and we are very excited to see that  current Hertford undergraduates feature prominently. Look out for...
Law Prizes for BCL students
Hertford is pleased to announce its recent success in the BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law) examinations. Shanaka Jayasuriya was awarded the prize for the highest marks in Roman Law (Delict) and Ciar McAndrew was awarded the p...
Hertford historian awarded Carwardine Prize
We’re very proud of recent Hertford graduate Joe Carter Hepplewhite (History, 2010), who has been awarded the 2013 Cawardine prize for the best thesis on US history. Joe’s thesis was ‘”What was c...
Bridging Programme Begins
Today Hertford welcomed 20 students participating in this year’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Bridging Programme. As they arrived, the marquee in the Old Buildings quadrangle used for our centenary celebrations...
Kay Davies on women in science
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Lee’s Professor of Anatomy at Hertford, writes in the New Statesman on her own career in science. She encourage young scientists, both women and men, to resist science’s ‘mach...
Bridge swells numbers of centenarians
Radio 4 has just reported a five-fold increase in the number of people living to 100 and those who reach that landmark this autumn can claim to be contemporaries both of the Hertford Bridge and of the first car productio...
‘Sospiri’ sound installation
If you are in Oxford today why not come to the Hertford Bridge to experience Sospiri, composed by Hertford Music Tutor, Dr Ben Skipp, to celebrate the bridge’s centenary? Created from samples of sighs from member...