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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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Luceat! French Baroque Requiem performed at Hertford
On Wednesday 6Â 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...
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...