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Hertford alumnus and former Geography tutor, Dr Jim Houston, celebrates his 100th birthday!

We send our warmest wishes and congratulations to Hertford alumnus and former Geography tutor, Dr Jim Houston, who celebrates his 100th birthday today. Dr Houston..
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Why Trans Day of Remembrance (20th November 2022) Matters

We are very lucky to live in a corner of the world where most people live free from physical, mental, and emotional violence. Having this..
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Equalities Week at Hertford College – What’s on the Equality Week display at Hertford Library?

It’s equalities week here at Hertford College and our Library Team is proud to be supporting with their display of books from their Liberation Collection..
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Calais – England’s First Colony

Calais, A History of England's First Colony, by Julian Whitehead, book cover.
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Sensational Books at the Bodleian

Professor Emma Smith is Tutorial Fellow in English & Fellow Librarian and Archivist and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College.
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Spotlight on history and literature

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In the Tongue and Talk of the People

Catherine Harvey, BA English (1989)
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Overlooked No More: Pandita Ramabai

Keith White, English (1966)
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Moments of meaning: why short stories are precious

John Millard, BA English Language & Literature (1985)
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Examining the Oxford English Dictionary

Charlotte Brewer, Professor of English Language & Literature
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Flood warnings that don’t break the banks

Linda Speight is a hydrometeorologist at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford whose research seeks to develop early warning systems to improve disaster risk management, particularly for flooding. She is interested in global flood forecasting, surface water flood forecasting, ensemble forecasts, impact-based forecasts, risk communication, decision making and climate resilience.
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Reimagining governance for the 21st century

Matthew J. Quinn (Lit. Hum., 1982) Matthew is the former Director for Environment and Sustainable Development in Welsh Government where he oversaw the Well-being of Future Generations and Environment Acts and the creation of Natural Resources Wales. He holds a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Cardiff University. Towards a new civic bureaucracy: lessons from sustainable development for the crisis of governance was published by Policy Press in February 2020. Policy Press | Towards a New Civic Bureaucracy - Lessons from Sustainable Development for the Crisis of Governance, By Matthew J. Quinn (bristoluniversitypress.co.uk)
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NHS Reform and Health Politics in the UK: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Covid Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Calum Paton (PPE, Hertford, 1974-77; MPP (Master’s in Public Policy), Harvard Kennedy School, 1977-79; D.Phil., Hertford, 1984)
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The gift of communication: the ability to listen

Ruth Bamforth
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From cancer to cosmetics

Lauren Murrell, Geography (2006)
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