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David Hopkin wins Folklore Society Prize
We all congratulate David Hopkin, Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford, who has been awarded the prestigious Katharine Briggs prize from the Folklore Society, for his book Voices of the People in Nineteenth Century F...
Heroic Hertford Porter
Hertford porter Angelo Fernandez is – quite rightly – hailed as a hero in the student press this week. Angelo spotted a felon riding a bicycle stolen from a Hertford student and gave chase while shouting R...
Teaching Excellence: Alison Woollard
We are delighted to announce that Dr Alison Woollard, Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry has won a university Teaching Excellence Award. Â Dr Woollard is receiving an Excellent Teacher Award in recognition of her contribut...
How do we know Peter Millican is real?
Hertford’s own professor of philosophy, Peter Millican, debated physicists’ claims to have come up with a test to help us know whether our world is a computer simulation. During the conversation on BBC Radio ...
Hertford in the movies
Filming on Catte Street this weekend for a film starring Emily Watson involved repainting Hertford drainpipes. Belle, to be released in 2013, is an eighteenth-century romance, and evidence from the set suggests that anyo...
Law student represents University in moot
Rajkiran (Kiran) Barhey, a second year Hertford lawyer, has been selected to represent the University of Oxford in the International law Jessup Moot team. The preparation for the moot runs through Michaelmas and Hilary t...
Professor Tony Wilson: Innovation Award
Professor Tony Wilson, Director of Aurox Ltd and Professor of Engineering Science at Hertford, has been awarded one of the Institute of Physics inaugural Innovation Awards . It has been a good year for the company, spec...
Matthew Beggs
We record, with great regret, the death of Matthew Beggs, who matriculated in Mathematics in 2009.
Ben Ogden
It is with great regret that we record the death of Ben Ogden in today’s Nepal air accident. Ben read Law with Studies in Europe (German) at Hertford College between 2004 and 2008. He was a warm, intelligent and mu...
Professor Peter Millican on ‘In Our Time’
Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, will be appearing on Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 programme “In Our Time” on Thursday 27th September at 9 am, talking about the Ontological Arg...