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Capturing the Inter-War Generation: Hertford Student Voices between the 1920s & 1940s

Ryan Hamilton, MPhil Student in History at Hertford (2022-2024) writes about undertaking a cataloguing project for the College archive In Trinity term 2024, I began to volunteer in Hertford’s college archive. Lucy Rutherford, the college archivist, suggested a cataloguing project that proved to be a window into another world. In the mid-1980s, the Development Office […]

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Work experience in the Library & Archives

In July 2024 two pupils from local schools spent a week working with the Hertford Library and Archives team. The team enjoyed welcoming the pupils, introducing them to how libraries and archives work and their enthusiasm for the library’s summer stock check and the special collections digitisation projects! The placements were organised through the College’s […]

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Magdalen Hall to Hertford College: The Early Days of the Boat Club

The first accession of 2024 is a Secretary’s Book for Magdalen Hall Boat Club, starting in 1868 and ending in1880. It is a handsome volume in good condition, covered with parchment and fastened with a metal clasp. It is unique in covering the period of transition as Magdalen Hall was incorporated as Hertford College in […]

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A Very Serviceable Library

The 19th and 20th centuries were a time of great change as Magdalen Hall and the remnants of Hart Hall transformed into the modern day version of Hertford College on the current Catte Street site.

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Memories of 1939: Lieutenant Tom Roberts

By Nathan Stazicker, Outreach & Communications Officer

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A short guide to Hart Hall & the first Hertford College

By Lucy Rutherford, Archivist

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The undergraduate Evelyn Waugh

By Lucy Rutherford, Archivist