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6 December 2013

Hertford revived

As part of the Bridge centenary celebrations, emeritus Fellow Dr Miles Vaughan Williams has written an account of his work at the forefront of Hertford’s redevelopment during the 1950s-1970s. Hertford Revivals is a...

4 December 2013

McEwan and error

Ian McEwan’s Hertford Conversation on Sunday evening took the entertaining topic of error as its central theme. McEwan read from letters from his readers identifying mistakes in his astronomy (Comfort of Strangers)...

4 December 2013

Worms for Christmas

Hertford postgraduate, Hayley Lees, stars in today’s film from the Royal Institution’s on-line Advent Calendar. The calendar, based on the Christmas Lectures to be delivered by Hertford Fellow in Biochemistry...

25 November 2013

BBC Countryfile appearance

There’s still time to catch Clive Hambler, Hertford Tutor in Human Sciences, on BBC 1’s Countryfile (first broadcast 24 November). The episode explores Wytham Woods as a ‘Living Lab’, and features...

23 November 2013

OXTALENT award for Geography Lecturer

   Dr Thomas Jellis, lecturer in Geography, has won a university award for the innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning. Using the WebLearn Virtual Learning Environment he was able to prepare a new...

21 November 2013

Hertford and Oxford’s history of black scholars

Alain Locke, who came to Hertford in 1907 as the University’s first African-American Rhodes scholar, takes centre stage in a new book by Pamela Roberts, Black Oxford: the Untold Stories of Oxford University’...

21 November 2013

Icon artist in new commission

Tewkesbury Abbey has just unveiled a new triptych by Bulgarian icon writer Silvia Dimitrova. Silvia’s Hertford commission, an icon of the baptism of Christ in memory of longstanding college chaplain Michael Chantry...

15 November 2013

Investigating Options

Yesterday Hertford welcomed a group of state schools students taking part in Investigating Options, the element of the Oxford Pathways Programme for Y11s. Investigating Options days encourage students to aim for the be...

8 November 2013

Luceat! French Baroque Requiem performed at Hertford

On Wednesday 6 November 2013, Hertford College Chapel held its annual requiem service. Each year, the organ scholars and choir perform a different requiem from the repertoire. This year, the Messe de Requiem of the Fren...

7 November 2013

On the road again

Taking a break from his research and writing, Dr Jamie Castell, our Outreach Fellow, is back in Essex this week visiting some of our link schools. Today he will give a presentation on Oxbridge for Y12s at Beauchamps High...