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Our archives volunteer Ryan Hamilton writes about student politics as depicted in a set of alumni questionnaires held in the Hertford College archives. In October of Michaelmas term 1931, students gathered at the Oxford Union to await the results of the general election. Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald had left the Labour Party that summer to […]
Our archives volunteer Ryan Hamilton writes about Hertford students’ memories of the famous Oxford Union Debate & the outbreak of war in 1939 Many of the alumni questionnaire returns in the collection held by the Hertford archives deal with the coming of the Second World War. Written decades later, students poignantly reflected on the coming […]
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 […]
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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Memories of 1939: Lieutenant Tom Roberts
By Nathan Stazicker, Outreach & Communications Officer
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The undergraduate Evelyn Waugh
By Lucy Rutherford, Archivist