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Not Islands: John Donne Lecture 2013
The 2013 Hertford John Donne lecture was delivered on Friday 15 March by Lord (Gus) O’Donnell, who took Donne’s famous ‘No man is an island’ quotation as his inspiration for a discussion of public...
French prize for Hertford student
Amy Cowan, formerly an undergraduate at Hertford in History and French and now studying for her MSt, is this year’s winner of the Folklore Society’s President’s Prize for student work related to folklore for he...
Cuppers Rugby win
Richard Foord, Men’s Rugby Captain, reports from the touchline: Hertford didn’t have the best starts conceding an early Jesus try, however a penalty and a superb kick and chase try put them on the front foot....
Bethnal Green Physics link
Hertford alumna, Aisling MacSweeney, came back to college last week with a group studying Physics at A level at her school – Oaklands – in Bethnal Green. Her former Tutor, Professor Pat Roche, joined them for lunch a...
Smiles not Sighs
As our FAQs insist, the bridge that links Hertford’s main quadrangle with its New Buildings is not modelled on the Bridge of Sighs at Venice. So it is appropriate that, as the favourite spot for group photographs w...
Rainbow flag flying
A grey day, but you can just about see the rainbow flag flying at Hertford to mark the end of LGBTQ History month.
A Taste of Hertford
Year 10 pupils from Barr Beacon School in Walsall, and from St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Derbyshire, visited Hertford today as part of their Oxford Pathways Taster Day. Our undergraduates enoyed meeting...
Hertford alumnus winner of Leibniz Prize
Roderich Moessner (Physics, 1991) has been named as one of the recipients of the 2013 Leibniz Prizes. The Leibniz Prize is an annual research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to scientists working in ...
Soweto Kinch on the sax
There are just four days left to catch the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Archive on Four. It features Soweto Kinch, jazz musician and Hertford alumnus, on the invention and history of the saxaphone. It was so g...
So, did Shakespeare hate his wife?
Positive review in this week’s Sunday Times of 30 Great Myths About Shakespeare by Emma Smith (Fellow in English) and Laurie Maguire (Magdalen). The authors will be talking about their book at the Oxford Literary ...