The Hertford College Magazine 2017-18

The Hertford College Magazine 2017-18 No. 98 No. 98 No. Hertford College Magazine No. 98 2017-18 Contents 3 Contents

EDITOR’S NOTE 4

PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME 6

HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS 13 The 2018 John Donne Lecture: Keep Calm but Don’t Carry On – Sir Nick Clegg 14 Britain After Brexit: The Political and Economic Choices Ahead – Sir Martin Donnelly 28 Professor Alison Young – Alan Bogg 34 A Tribute to Dr Roger Pensom 36 A Tribute to Dr Paul Coones, 1955-2018 – Peter Bull 38 Kenny Lewis: An Appreciation – Christopher Tyerman 40 Preston Travel Report: Stefan Zweig in Vienna – Robert Ham (2015) 42 Tri-Innovate 2018: Undried Ink – James Caplan (2017) 44

HERTFORD YEAR 47 Fellows and Lecturers 48 Honorary Fellows 52 Hertford Society – Robert Seymour (1985) 54 The College Office –ynn L Featherstone, Registrar & Director of Admissions 56 Editor: Kevin Hilliard The Bursary – Jamie Clark, Bursar 58 Sub-editors: Jonathan White The Library – Alice Roques (Librarian) & Emma Smith (Fellow Librarian) 60 Design: www.dougdawson.co.uk The Archive – Dr Lucy Rutherford (Archivist) & Professor Christopher Tyerman (Fellow Archivist) 62 Produced by: The Chapel – Mia Smith, Chaplain 64 Development Office Development – Julia Thaxton, Director of Development 66 Hertford College Subjects and Research 70 Oxford OX1 3BW Student Life 88 JCR Annual Report – Jude Lewis, JCR President 88 01865 279428 MCR Annual Report – Liisa Parts , MCR President 92 [email protected] HARTFest – Sophie Street 94 www.hertford.ox.ac.uk Music – Charlotte Corderoy & Hannah Towndrow 95 Hertford Politics And Economics Society – Annie Simm 96 Sport – David Melvin, JCR Sports Officer 97 Rowing – Philippa Thornton 104 JCR Charity – Rosa Curson Smith 106

AFTER HERTFORD 107 Interview with Marion Osieyo (2013) – Olga Batty, Deputy Development Director 108 Russia, a London ‘Bobby’ and the Beautiful Game – Joseph Stokoe (1987) 112 Life in Music – Holly Redford-Jones (2013) 116 The Hertford College Magazine is published for members and friends of the college. Reminiscences of a Hertford Physicist: The opinions expressed are those of the writers and not necessarily the official views George Lawson Pickard, MBW (1913-2007) 120 of Hertford College. Reunions, Marriages & Obituaries 124 Alumni News 134 Hertford College is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1137527.

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Editor’s note

The Editor thanks all those who have contributed to and advised on this year’s issue, especially Julia Thaxton and the team in the Development Office.

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t has been a bumpy year for the white, southern privilege,” he tweeted. Principal’s I world’s number one university. More concerning was the reaction of the We are charged with not pulling our new Director of the Office for Students weight in the struggle to promote social (OfS), Chris Millward, bluntly warning Welcome mobility, falling short in the efforts to “we expect higher levels of ambition increase the ethnic and racial mix of and progress than currently” and looked our students. Our research funding is to Oxford to deliver “a step change in under potential threat from Brexit – as equality of opportunity.” There is little will student numbers be from EU. To cap doubt the OfS in the Spring of 2019 it all, our academics went on strike over will set more demanding targets for the their pensions, triggering dark muttering period ahead, give Oxford three rather over the Vice-Chancellor’s certainty of than five years to deliver them and touch in her handling of everything from impose tough fines if they are not met. the pension issue to her own expenses. Hertford may have come second in All true – and all worrying. But there is the league table for the proportion of a plus side that more than compensates. our intake that comes from state schools Oxford was ranked the world’s number (averaging 69 per cent over the last one university for the third year running three years), and we scored creditably, if on a composite mix of the quality not as well as we would like, on the other of its research, number of research indicators such as proportions from citations, the learning experience, ethnic backgrounds. But we will still be and internationality. It remains globally in the firing line as part of the collegiate academically pre-eminent. It is also university. Of course our achievement modest that the University is on its mettle faring well on other dimensions. In reflects our long record of taking access to make a bold step. After all: is the gene the academic year 2017/18 more than seriously since Neil Tanner launched pool of intellect really so poor to justify twenty-five start-ups were founded by the Tanner scheme in the mid 1960s, 12 independent schools sending more university academics – the highest in the readiness of our fellowship to offer students to Oxford than over 900 state Europe – while Oxford pulled in £585M state school candidates places and the comprehensives? It seems improbable, of research funding, more than any other dynamic efforts of our access team, even allowing for the inevitable gap British university – £100 million more than supported energetically by our fabulous in school quality that money buys. Cambridge. Oxford now has the largest students (74 student “Ambassadors” Radical options being floated include university aligned innovation fund on – a stunning fifth of the student body), launching a pan-university foundation the planet, some £600M furnished by in outreach efforts – and also by the year in which 300 or 400 able students Oxford Science Innovation. There is many alumni who contribute to our from disadvantaged backgrounds live plenty of which to be proud. student welfare and bursary funds. We and are taught in Oxford colleges as It was, however, the publication engaged with over 50 schools and they prepare for A-levels. There is of each college’s access record in some 2000 students including Taster the upgrading of the contextual data May in a composite, comprehensive Days, tours, talks and provision of accompanying applications so that the report that unleashed the political and residential accommodation – and in the context in which a student achieves, say, media demons. Overall the university summer of 2019 we have committed to 2 As and a B from a failing comprehensive had progressed at a snail’s pace in quadrupling the number of places we in a poor neighbourhood is fairly ranked meeting its modest targets to increase will accommodate in the UNIQ summer against a student achieving 3 As from an the number of students coming from school to 200, aimed at giving students independent school charging £40k fees disadvantaged post-codes, and there from ordinary homes a taste of the a year. Another idea, which has some was even more modest progress in Oxford experience. logistical hurdles, is that Oxford enters promoting diversity. Tottenham MP, However, other colleges, in the words the University and Colleges Admission and former higher education minister of a Senior Tutor from a college with Service (UCAS) with a limited number David Lammy, bluntly summed up his a dismal record, “play it safe” when it of places on offer every August, so that view of the tables: “Oxford is a bastion comes to actual admissions. The result is students achieving unexpectedly good of entrenched, wealthy, upper-class, that Oxford’s average performance is so results get an Oxford offer that would

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have been impossible to make in January Sir David Williams Professor of Public reputation as one of Oxford’s computer Amidst all this welcome news, there given the predicted grades. Watch this Law at Cambridge and Alan to assume science hot-spots – not a bad reputation was one notable sadness; the early space. Some may prove impractical but a senior Professorship in Bristol. They to have given the department’s standing retirement of the legendary Kenny Lewis one way or another the University has were a legendary duo cherished by (led by our own Professor Michael who has served the college for forty to break out of the drip drip of invidious students and colleagues alike – and we Wooldridge) as the best in Europe. And years, latterly as the college butler. We and sometimes exaggerated criticism. miss them even while we wish them the some of you may already have come gave him a much merited send off. The Within our own terms Hertford had very best. across the efforts of Nathan Stazicker Works of Art Committee commissioned a another lively year. Professor Siddharth Both David Hopkin and Alan Lauder as our newly appointed outreach and pen and ink drawing which captures him Parameswaren joined us as our new were awarded much deserved communications officer: his video clips superbly (now hanging on the stair-case Physics fellow and Professor Elizabeth professorships in the annual recognition on social media are Oxford stand-outs. up to the Senior Common Room), and Baldwin as our Economics fellow; of distinction exercise. Professor Emma The college was delighted to name there was a great event in a packed Hall both settled in so well that it is hard to Smith could be heard frequently on BBC seven new honorary fellows – all of where staff past and present, fellows and imagine that they were never here – with Radio 3 and 4 offering her judicious them closely associated with Hertford his family gathered to pay tribute to his Elizabeth earning herself a reputation reflections on Shakespeare. Professor as alumni, or in one case, a former career – from playing in college football for being the high priestess of auction Claire Vallance, a one woman academic, fellow. Distinguished lawyer Sir Jeffrey teams to the thousands of dinners theory and Sid the man who knows business, musical and sporting dynamo Jowell, formidable mathematician Martin at which he had served. Professor more about how matter behaves at ultra- began a three-year stint as President of Bridson, senior business leader Paul Tyerman’s piece later in the magazine low temperatures than almost anyone the Faraday Division of the Royal Society Manduca, innovative jazz musician captures his essence perfectly – and in Europe. Dr Benedict Coxon held the of Chemistry, who plainly recognise her Soweto Kinch, path-breaking UN official what he meant to the college. Kenny, we fort as we rode the double hit of both extraordinary energy and across-the- Nancee Oku Bright, and the redoubtable wish you the best in retirement. our wonderful law fellows – Professors board ability as we do. Andrew Cropper classicist Stephanie West all now It was a year when we made Alison Young and Alan Bogg – leaving began as our Junior Research Fellow in join our rollcall of Honorary Fellows. substantive progress in laying the for pastures new; Alison to become the Computer Science, sealing our growing Congratulations to them all. foundations for the next decade. As the

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 10 Principal’s Welcome Principal’s Welcome 11 bursar remarks, we borrowed £20 million was the Hertford lecture series on Prime national interest, while commentator over 30 years in a private placement at Ministers and Brexit. It was a bit hair- Steve Richards felt that Theresa May a very competitive interest rate – the raising to organise – Andrew Adonis had capitulated to the worst in her party. lowest we think of any Oxford college – and I had not got the final speakers All in all it was not a great story, but one One of the features of to finance much needed refurbishment confirmed when we began – but the final interestingly one in which Thatcher and and renovation across our estate. We rollcall I hope passed muster. The first Major came out best. There was a lot of Autumn 2017 was the received positive signals about our lecture was Sir Charles Powell on Lady press and student interest, as witnessed Hertford lecture series on nascent plans to create much more fit Thatcher, who would not have been a by President of the Hertford Business Prime Ministers and Brexit. for purpose student accommodation in Brexiter he claimed. Then Lord Chris and Economic Society, Annie Simm, our properties and adjoining gardens Patten (Oxford’s Chancellor) assessed in her remarks you will read later: the It was a bit hair-raising to in Winchester and Banbury Road. We John Major’s achievement in holding lectures went online in film and text. Next organise – Andrew Adonis received our largest ever donation in the line against his sceptic mutineers, year we launch a series on Debating modern times of $2 million, innovatively while Lord Andrew Adonis was tough Capitalism. and I had not got the final structured to attract matched funding as on his old boss, Tony Blair, for too much Alongside the Hertford Conversations speakers confirmed when we well as supporting areas crucial to the ducking and weaving despite the EU continued, with visits from journalists began – but the final rollcall I college – student welfare, scholarships, being a cause in which he believed. Owen Jones and Paul Mason. Sir Martin and library facilities. Importantly we Lord Stewart Wood was no less tough Donnelly, one of our Academic Visitors, hope passed muster. hired seven new fellows to begin in the on Gordon Brown for depicting Europe organised two seminars on European college in the Autumn of 2018 – more as the enemy to appease the right- developments with Jonathan Faull and details next year – imparting a sense of wing press. Sir Ivor Rogers damned Peter Ammon – and then gave one energy about to arrive. David Cameron for putting the internal himself. Nick Clegg gave a fine John One of the features of Autumn 2017 politics of the Tory party before the Donne lecture to a crowded Sheldonian– Trinity Term and which are funded by you will find the full transcript next. I a donor. The recipients this year were: have written it before, but Oxford’s Holly Kilner (2015), History, former stone in the early evening April light as JCR Access rep, Aisha Tahir (2015), you walk through the square framed by English, Alice Maynes (2015), Biology, the Bodleian library back to college for Joe Anderson (2016), Chemistry, Katie dinner after the John Donne lecture is Burke (2016), History, Andrew Boczek one the greatest uplifting sights I know. (2015), Chemistry, Elena Burges (2016), Amongst our students, one stand-out Archaeology & Anthropology. They was 3rd year Biochemist Jei Diwaker, are all committed to improving access: part of a team who won the best congratulations and thanks to them all. diagnostic project for Chagas disease Nor was it a bad year on the sport’s in the international synthetic biology field. Hertford won the Cheer Cuppers competition. L.D. Lord was selected for the first time. Men’s Football won for the Lindau Laureate meeting for their league, were promoted and Physiology and Medicine. Gratifying went the whole season undefeated. for the Principal was that the Hertford Women’s Football won their league and team (Veratrak) won 1st prize in our Tri- are promoted back to the top division. Innovate Competition – to convert next Skiing was Hertford’s best result in year to an all University competition– living memory – the team came second while another Hertford team, Undried in Oxford Cuppers and 3rd out of all Ink, were among the finalists (see the the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges! article in this issue). We launched this Hertford Netball went the season Innovation competition three years ago, undefeated and were promoted. and it is great to see it come of age. On top, the college is hugely proud There were over 60 entries, so winning that we boast Oxford’s largest and most was no mean feat. We introduced active college music society: each of Tanner Awards for outstanding Student our termly concerts last year was a Ambassadors, awarded at the end of success. The society does not audition

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Honorary Fellow Dame Helen Alexander (Geography 1978), former President of the CBI, and chair of our Remuneration Committee for four years, died after a typically determined fight against cancer. We were also sad to learn that Richard Holder, long serving College Butler, passed away. Condolences and commiserations to all their families and friends. Our alumni continue to make waves. Jeremy Boon (Geography 2008) won Professional Services Rising Star in the Black British Business Awards. Rachel Weiss (Maths 1985) was recognised by PM for her exceptional service as founder of Menopause café. Jacqui Smith (PPE 1981) received an honorary doctorate from Birmingham University. Peter Lane Dame Helen Alexander (Law 1971), Martin Spencer QC (Law 1974) were appointed judges in the Queen’s Bench Division in the High Court. Colin Cook (Biochemistry 1982) became Lord and contains members from across the Mayor of Oxford. Zoë Lee (Geography University, and each of the ensembles 2004) was part of winning crew in this is run and conducted by a Hertford year’s Princess Grace Challenge Cup at student. We have three ensembles the Henley Royal Regatta, and a team (orchestra, jazz band, wind ensemble) all from Cambridge University succeeded at the top of their game. It’s also worth in training eight sheep to recognise mentioning that the Chapel Choir’s Hilary Fiona Bruce (Modern Languages 1982). Term concert, Northern Lights, in which Congratulations to them all, including the choir performed a number of works the sheep. And congratulations too to by Scandinavian and Nordic composers, Ewa Gluza, one of our staff, who was with Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass for choir recognised by the Polish Embassy as and string orchestra as the main work, one of the exceptional women who was a sell-out. This was the biggest inspire the Polish community in Britain. concert the choir has ever performed. I So the curtain comes down on another was there, and our two organ scholars academic year. When I write next year pulled it off with magnificent musical Brexit may or may not have happened. aplomb. No prizes for what I am hoping for, but But as always the year is marked whatever the outcome I am confident by the sadness of death. Dr Roger that Hertford – and Oxford – will remain Pensom, French tutor and Dr Geoffrey premier global academic institutions. Ellis, History Tutor – both great Hertford Best foot forward! I wish all our alumni figures – passed away. Drue Heinz, the very best. whose generosity allowed us to build the Graduate Centre, also quietly left us. Will Hutton, Principal

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he argument I want to make this idea that the United Kingdom is leaving So that’s my argument.This being the The 2018 T evening is the following – that the the European Union, that because of the John Donne lecture, I strongly suspect Brexit debate, the debate about our visceral nature of this cultural conflict, that every single speaker, ever since place in the European Union, is not for which Brexit has become the prime this series started, has at some point Donne a debate at all about the EU. It’s not catalyst, the United Kingdom shouldn’t, gratuitously quoted John Donne to a debate about the form and pattern mustn’t, indeed can’t exacerbate that say that ‘no man is an island, entire of Lecture: of the future of European integration. conflict by reopening the Brexit debate itself’. I’m going to follow suit by quoting It is, in fact, a debate about us, about altogether. precisely those lines, because they do our identity, and the Brexit debate And I will seek to explain why I think seem unusually apposite: ‘No man is Keep Calm has mutated really to become an that this argument, that in a sense an island entire of itself, every man is increasingly visceral debate about who that there is no merit, or indeed that a piece of the continent, a part of the we are as a nation, how we identify it is perilous to reopen the debate main; if a clod be washed away by but don’t ourselves as a national community, and about Brexit, is deeply, and in my view, the sea, Europe is the less, as well as how we feel about our own future. dangerously misguided. Indeed, I will if a promontory were.’ I think it is eerily carry on And that debate has become argue that the best chance for us as a apposite to recite those extraordinarily Sir Nick Clegg equivalent to a culture war, which I will country to find our way back towards a famous lines from John Donne. elaborate upon. And for that reason, it path of greater national harmony relies Behind all this, of course, lingers has become increasingly fashionable, heavily on our ability to reopen and the question why it is that in the United even amongst those who are finding it resettle the question about Britain’s Kingdom, in contrast to most other a real struggle to be reconciled with the status in the European Union. European Union member states, the

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 16 The 2018 Donne Lecture HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS The 2018 Donne Lecture 17 nation’s place in Europe has been the circumstances and the feelings that debated with such anguished, contorted other member states had as they joined intensity? Why is it that we seem so much the European club in their own different more unsettled, uncomfortable, and way. acrimonious in discussing our European My wife, as you may know, is identity compared to pretty well almost Spanish, and if you speak with folk in all other major member states? Now Spain, Portugal, Greece – that belt of some say it’s because we were on the Mediterranean countries all of which winning side of the war. Others say it’s experienced different forms of military because we have a natural affinity with dictatorships before they joined the the United States, or a deep attachment democratic club of the European to the Commonwealth and the English- Community – it is very apparent that speaking world. Others say recent joining the European Community said memories of being an imperial, global something positive and affirmative about power make it more difficult for us to those countries’ modern identities. I embrace our European identity. I think remember it very well. all of those reasons are perhaps good Miriam comes from a small agricultural ones, in and of themselves, and maybe community in the middle of the arid concatenate to contribute to the almost plains of Castile and Leon. Her aunts uniquely anguished debate that we and uncles were sugar beet farmers in have. But I think that one of the clues to that part of Spain. Her mother was the our highly emotive ambivalence about chemistry teacher for 30 years in the our place in Europe can in a large part only village school and her father was be traced back to the psychological the local mayor. It’s not exactly on the and emotional circumstances in which tourist trail. In 25 years of visiting the we joined the ‘club’ in the first place. only British person I’ve ever met there And I think it’s worth just dwelling a was a photographer from the Daily Mail, little on that history, because I believe who subsequently published a picture the circumstances in which we joined which was particularly unflattering of me the European Community in the early and said, ‘Who has eaten all the paella 1970s set us very singularly apart from Nick?’ I had a particularly large belly in towards chauvinism, nationalism and Common Agricultural Policy, not about the photo. xenophobia in parts of Central-Eastern all the complexities with which Schuman, I digress. I remember vividly speaking Europe, being part of the European Monnet and the other founding fathers to one of Miriam’s uncles who had Union symbolises above and beyond (fathers rather than mothers) grappled. It farmed in that part of Spain all of his life. everything else freedom after Soviet was above and beyond everything else He didn’t really know too much about communism. In other words, joining the about an affirmation of peace after war. how the European Community worked, European Union was an indispensable So, modernity, democracy, freedom, or the ins and outs of how exactly Spain step in the reassertion of the new peace – these are some of the most joined the European Community, but I national identities free of the yoke of powerful national identifiers you can Why is it that we seem will never forget how he puffed out his Soviet communism, and so also if for possibly imagine. We, though, did so much more unsettled, chest with immense pride that Spain different reasons for Miriam’s uncle something completely different. We uncomfortable, and was now a part of the modern family of there was a powerful and emotional stayed aloof in that classic, rather democracies and that being part of the resonance to joining the European patronising way. British officials wrote acrimonious in discussing European Community said something club. If you speak particularly to older lofty notes saying ‘Johnny Foreigner’s’ our European identity so viscerally positive and uplifting about folk in the founding member states of trying to cook up something in Europe, Spain’s modern identity after the Franco the European Community – Benelux, but it won’t go anywhere, it’s best we compared to pretty well years. France, Italy and Germany – it was stay out of it and we’ll just pat them on almost all other major Similarly, if you speak to folk in above and beyond everything else their pretty little heads and let them get member states? Central-Eastern Europe, even now not about the European coal and steel on with it. And then we latterly decided with the sharp and very worrying turn community, not about the creation of the we did want to join and then General de

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Gaulle loftily told us to get lost and we think the UK’s ambivalence has been ten days before the referendum), that a breeze, and how Remain was going crawled back on our knees. emotionally baked into the cake, right people who drove past and honked to win and so on), but I have to say to Then we joined in 1973, and then from the very first moment we joined the their horns and waved their hands you if, in a pretty middle-class area like we weren’t sure about it, and then we European Union. Of course, when we would proudly say ‘We’re for Brexit’ – Sheffield Hallam, all the momentum and had a referendum in the mid-1970s, then had that fateful referendum on 23 all in good humour by the way. I’ll never pride, all the wind seems to be in the where there was no discussion about a June 2016, oddly enough history both forget, for this was when the penny sails of the Brexiteers, then that doesn’t national identity, or national emotion or repeated itself almost exactly, but also dropped with me, an elderly couple seem too good to me.’ And he said, national mission. There was no poetry something very new occurred as well. carrying Waitrose bags came up to me ‘well what do you suggest?’ I just think to it. It was if the country was invited to History repeated itself in the following and whispered ‘We’re for Remain.’ And for the last ten days of this campaign, take out a pocket calculator and make way. Once again, we were invited by I’ve been in politics long enough to you need to come up with something a finely tuned cost-benefit analysis David Cameron and George Osborne know, if people feel so sheepish about which competes emotionally with this about the price of New Zealand butter and others to take out our pocket how they’re going to vote, they tend to very, very powerful refrain, which I’ve or lamb cutlets, as if the whole wider calculators, so we might be marginally be on the losing side. heard constantly ‘take back control’. debate about our European identity and better off according with this scheme I remember getting in touch with Why don’t you try something like ‘vote this astonishing birth of supra-national or that calculation, or that statistical David Cameron by email and saying, to stay in Europe to keep us safe, to governance in our cluttered, blood- projection. There was no attempt at ‘I don’t know what your over-paid, keep your kids safe from recession, to drenched, messy, patchwork continent all by the leaders of the referendum antipodean Lynton Crosby is telling keep your kids safe from cross-border could all be reduced to working out to say that being part of the European you about (the papers were full at the crime, from environmental degradation.’ how much the the weekly shop would Union, given the wider insecurities of time about how it was all going to be Everyone wants to keep their children, cost. In other words, we shuffled in the world, was essential in order to prosaically. We did it with a shrug of provide the prosperity and security and the shoulders. We’d been rebuffed. We the environmental sustainability that our joined out of a sense of resignation – citizens crave, and that it is consistent if we can’t beat them then we might with our modern British identity to be as well join them. There was nothing a leading member. It was all endless uplifting at all. There was nothing which specious arguments about claim fused and merged our membership of and statistical counter-claim. It was a the European club with our new modern bloodless argument, and no wonder the national identity. For older voters much more emotive refrain of ‘taking in particular, the very act of joining back control’ in this scary, uncertain, the European Community at some footloose and fancy-free world spoke subliminal level reminded them that the to the heart. People vote with the heart country was no longer as great as it once and not with the head. The head at was. That it was almost an admission of election time is almost always used defeat. We were no longer able to rule by us to justify and to rationalise what the waves on our own, we had to fall in we feel. And the pro-remain argument and, worst of all, it wasn’t even invented in the summer of 2016 was primarily by us. I think parenthetically there is made, as you will all remember by something relatively similar to the sense David Cameron, along roughly the of exceptionalism that you hear in parts following lines: ‘I don’t particularly like of Scandinavia. If you listen to some of the European Union. I think I made it a the debates in Scandinavia you’ll hear tiny bit better, a little less worse, please echoes of that exceptionalism here vote for it.’ How uninspiring is that? where the Swedes might say: ‘well we I remember very well standing have this perfect welfare state, we felt behind a trestle table adorned with we couldn’t persist with it in glorious pro-European leaflets, balloons and isolation. We had to throw our lot in with t-shirts and heaven knows what else, the rest of Europe. We didn’t really want and trying to interest shoppers in south- to – we kind of had to.’ west Sheffield, my then constituency. Setting that aside for the moment, I I noticed very quickly (this was about

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 20 The 2018 Donne Lecture HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS The 2018 Donne Lecture 21 their grandchildren safe, knowing that climate change is real and needs to there is safety in numbers I have no be tackled are passionately in favour evidence that that would have made of equal marriage, are well-disposed the slightest bit of difference. But I retell towards the internet, also believe we No other democracy has ever done that in the modern that story only to demonstrate how should be part of the European Union, much the rather listless way in which the and that largely speaking the reverse is era. It is an extraordinary thing to do, to invite millions of European case had been made when the case as well. After the referendum a people to cast their vote on 23 June 2016 and then to ignore we first joined in the 1970s was echoed poll showed that the clearest indicator their views completely. and repeated in the summer of 2016. of how people voted on the issue of But since then something has the European Union was their attitude happened which almost serves as a towards capital punishment. rupture from that pragmatic shrug of the Now that strikes me as very shoulders, unexcitable and unexcited significant. The European question has they have no other option but to resort decisions we take now, and then be pro-European sentiment, which is that now escaped the confines of what we to ever more extreme measures to told ‘thank you very much, but we are part of the counter-reaction to the think about this or that directive, or the make their views heard.’ And I want to going to ignore your views altogether.’ referendum has been that millions of Common Agricultural Policy, or whether explain to you why I, by contrast, think If there is any merit to the argument people in this country, obviously not Brussels has an attractive way of taking that (setting aside the fact that it’s a form that a mature democracy should be everybody (far from it), but those who decisions or not, and has actually of intellectual intimidation to be told that most circumspect when taking very identify themselves as pro-Europeans, escaped into the wider bloodstream you cannot continue to have a debate significant decisions about the future, it have now found that passion and of the debate about who we are as a in a democracy because people may should be particularly mindful of those that emotion and that drive and that community. Optimistic or fearful? Open resort to violence) it is essential that we who will inhabit that future. That seems commitment and that conviction, which or closed? Forward-looking or wishing don’t listen to that counsel of passivity, to me to assemble and create both a has always been so lacking in British to seek the comfort of certainties but continue to take every opportunity moral and generational argument in politics. in the past? And that of course is to reopen this all-important issue. favour of allowing the country to re- And the great irony is, just at the point one of the reasons why a number of Hence the title of my talk: Keep Calm open the discussion and reconsider this where it may be too late to do anything commentators and politicians, even but do NOT carry on. And there are issue. That’s argument number one. about it, many people, and particularly where they proclaim, as many of them three principal reasons for that. The second argument is an even young people, appear to have found an do, that they are very sad about the First, no sophisticated and mature more primitive one. As David Davis emotional commitment to our European decision to leave the European Union, democracy has ever, as far as I am famously said: ‘a democracy that identity, which has hitherto been lacking feel that it would be too dangerous to aware, taken such a radical and abrupt can’t change its mind ceases to be a in British politics and in the public reopen the question altogether. People decision about its own future, against democracy.’ One of the very hallmarks discourse around our European future. have become too angry and it has the explicit and stated wishes of those of a democracy is that a democracy Ask a random sample of the become too acrimonious. It has set rich who have to inhabit the future. Despite is more supple and adaptable than British public a number of apparently against poor; educated versus those the normal depiction of young people rigid and ideologically fossilised, or unrelated questions like: Do you think who are less educated; young and the as being incapable or unwilling to totalitarian systems. That is the whole equal marriage is a good thing or a old; the north and the south; London, exercise their democratic choice, most point of democracy. You vote people bad thing? Do you think the internet Northern Ireland, Scotland compared estimates suggest that the turnout for in and you vote them out – as I know is a force for good or a force for ill? to the rest. It has created such divisions 18-24-year-olds was over 60%. Not as to my cost. One moment a government Do you believe in climate change or in our society that the one thing we high as some of the higher age bracket, is great, a politician is great, the next do you not? And do you believe we should now avoid is reopening it. And where turnout was extraordinarily high, moment they are a villain. That’s the should be a member of the European in fact, as you may have seen, there are over 90%, but still much higher than is way it works; that’s the whole point Union or not? – questions which touch increasing numbers of people who say conventionally the case. And over 70% of a democracy, that you don’t take a upon underlying distinctions between ‘it’s so perilous to do this that it may risk (it is estimated) of those 18-24-year-old snapshot decision one moment and whether folk are confident about the civil disobedience, violence and a wider voters voted for a different future. No then turn that into an immutable decree. future or fearful of it; open to change conflagration of political turbulence in other democracy anywhere in the world, The world changes and the world or reticent about it; open to the other, this country.’ ‘Just imagine,’ they say, and certainly not in the developed has changed very considerably since or wanting to turn away from it, and the ‘how those people are going to feel, world, has ever done this before: to the summer of 2016. One of the most interesting thing is that the answers all who were asked to vote on Brexit, voted invite millions of youngsters to express important strategic merits, in my view, of line up: the overwhelming pattern is on Brexit and then the whole thing is to their view about the future they want, our membership of the European Union that those who answer that they think be reopened again: they will feel that which they will inhabit, where they will is that it has allowed our countryto find a have to pay the consequences of the way of dealing with our relative decline,

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compared to our standing in the early part of the twentieth century and much of the nineteenth century. There are very few other examples of countries which go from that level of power and influence to a more diminished status and to do so with such grace and tranquillity. One of the main reasons for that is that we very cleverly found a way of maintaining relevance, of punching above our weight as the Foreign Office might say, by both maintaining our strong affinity with the United States – the new hegemon, the Rome to our Greece – but also remaining, or establishing a leadership role in the European continent. That sort of act of performing the splits across the Atlantic was a remarkably intelligent thing to do. We have clearly withdrawn one foot from one side of the Atlantic, but we didn’t know, in the summer of 2016, that the other foot would also be rudely removed as well, by the arrival of a jingoistic and deeply protectionist American nationalist as President. It is a basic democratic principle that if the world changes around you, if the facts change, we must retain the ability to change with those facts and with those changes in circumstance. The third and final argument is one of accountability. I say this with some feeling as I’m a politician who famously was hung, drawn and quartered for failing to deliver one policy in a one- policy area, something of great interest here in Oxford University. I wasn’t Prime Minister, I hadn’t won the election, my manifesto did not hold sway, and there was no money. Whatever the rights and wrongs were on this issue, I was held to account for what I did in government, or what I was accused of not doing. That’s the way it works, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. You take it on the chin, you stand for election, and people make a judgement about whether you’ve done a good job or not. That is the way a peaceful democracy

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Michael Gove, discharge the task in the generations of politicians, what does it whether Britain remains a member of If there is an opportunity for us, as spirit of compromise, in order to reunite say to those students amongst you who the European Union or not, would be a mature democracy, to revisit this the country. And for that reason, I am are thinking of going into politics, if the devastatingly effective, as it was. But question, it would be entirely within our not going to turn my back on the great liars, and those vested interests, and it was totally false, and had absolutely power to do so. If that does happen, achievements of one of my greatest the industrial scale of mendacity with nothing to do with the subject matter then I make one final and very important predecessors, my heroine Margaret which the Brexit campaign was run and at hand, and he knew that. The proof point, another hugely important Thatcher who was the author of the successfully prosecuted, wins the day that he knew that was that those photos principle of democracy: in a democracy, single market. I’m not going to turn without ever being held to account? entirely disappeared after 10pm when the losers must always feel that they Britain’s back on the great free-trading I’ll give you an example: one of the polls closed on 23 June 2016. have a stake. principles that my party has fought for the most powerful individuals in this What does it say to future politicians, The losing side in a democracy since the Cold War.’ country is Paul Dacre, who is the editor or journalists, or aspirant media must never be left empty-handed. In a Can you imagine? I reckon most of us, of the Daily Mail. [In November 2018, proprietors or editors if that kind of democracy you vote, you win some, you even me, would have said in response: Dacre stepped down as editor of the cynicism can proceed and never be lose some. If you lose some you think fair enough. She’s in a pretty invidious paper. Ed.] You won’t have seen any held to account? What does it say, you may win next time. It is an essential position. She’s leading a totally divided interviews with him. He is not elected what does it do to the integrity of our ingredient to a healthy democracy that country, but at least she’s going to do it by anybody. He never comes out of his model of representative democracy? people don’t feel they are entirely and and everybody will have something to lair in West London. He doesn’t meet Farage, Gove, Johnson and all the other irrevocably disenfranchised, otherwise hold on to. But instead what did they do? ordinary people. He’s a very secretive charlatans and opportunists told people the whole system doesn’t work. One They in effect said that the 16.1 million multi-millionaire. Yet he has, for reasons to great effect that if only they’d put that of the reasons I stand before you, one people who voted for a different future, that would require a totally different little cross next to the box which said of the reasons I have not gracefully or more than have ever voted for a winning evening’s discussion, an abnormally Brexit, we would receive the bounty of disgracefully hidden myself under a rock government in recent history, count for tight grip on how the Conservative £350 million extra for the NHS, smaller somewhere and never said anything nothing, and more than that, they are Party acts and thinks. I saw this at first class sizes, lower prescription charges, publicly after I left the political stage, is going to take an interpretation of Brexit hand for five years. I would regularly lower VAT rates. Then they all merrily because I am outraged by what Theresa which wasn’t remotely discussed during hear very senior Conservatives saying, fled for the hills afterwards, chuckling May and the Brexiteers announced the referendum and impose it on the ‘well that’s a very good idea, but we and laughing: ‘Oh well, that was then.’ in the wake of the referendum. She country, a highly partial, extraordinarily can’t do it because Paul Dacre doesn’t What does that do to our democracy? could have stood, just imagine if she uncompromising version of Brexit, in like it.’ He placed lurid photos of the And so, the third and perhaps most had done this, she could have stood which we not only leave the political Mediterranean refugee crisis on the compelling reason of all why I believe on the steps of Number 10 when she institutions of the EU, but also the core front page of his newspaper I think on that it is entirely right and in line with became Prime Minister and said: ‘I economic arrangements of the customs 17 occasions in the last 24 days of the our fundamental, democratic principles didn’t want us to leave the European union and the single market to boot. referendum campaign. It is reported that is that if we allow them to get away Union but we will because that is how And then she gave a speech in which when he had a conversation with David with this, the fundamental principle of the British people, if by a very slender Cameron, in David Cameron’s prime accountability will perish too. I think majority, voted. And I will discharge ministerial flat above Downing Street, that is a principle transcending one’s the instruction which has been placed at some point before the referendum, views about the European Union. So upon me, But,’ she could have gone on he pointed to the television screen in that is why I believe that members of to say, ‘I am mindful, as everybody who the corner of the room where there Parliament when they come to consider has held this great office of state, that I I was held to account for were once again pictures of hapless, the deal put forward by Theresa May, have to act not just for this generation, poor people fleeing, many of them in a so-called meaningful vote on that but future generations. And I have to act what I did in government, perishing in the Mediterranean on deal towards the end of this year, have not just for the winners in this debate or what I was accused of flimsy dinghies, fleeing the conflict every democratic right to exercise their but for the losers as well, and for that of Syria or elsewhere, and said, judgement as our representatives about reason I will take us out of the European not doing. That’s the way ‘that‘s where you’re going to lose the whether they think the deal in any way Union, but I will not do so at any cost. it works, that’s the way the referendum and no other reason’. He conforms to all of those commitments I will disappoint tedious remoaners like cookie crumbles. knew that making a link in the public and promises made by the Brexit Nick Clegg and Ken Clarke and others,

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 26 The 2018 Donne Lecture HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS The 2018 Donne Lecture 27 she sought to insult and offend and leave those who voted for Brexit empty- exemption for a long period of time on denigrate almost anyone who felt that handed. I met hundreds, thousands of social provisions. Not part, crucially, of they might have any affinity with anyone decent, good people, many of whom the single currency. So, we’ve always else in any other country, hemisphere, I served happily, and knew well in my had a rather atypical status, and my We already had a kind of continent, as citizens of nowhere, as own then constituency, who voted for view is, given the profound social and folk who, she was implying, somehow Brexit, for perfectly understandable cultural and historical divisions about have-your-cake-and-eat-it don’t really know what it is to be British. emotional reasons. For many of them I our attitudes towards Europe, it is status within the European And at that point I thought: how dare you met, it was an ideal opportunity to kick unrealistic to imagine that the United Union. Members of the single take that slender vote and impose your a status quo which had served them Kingdom is ever going to be in the inner own ideologically narrow interpretation very poorly. I understood all of that. I core of the European Union. market but not members of upon it? And why did she? Because didn’t agree with it, but I understood it. But that doesn’t mean we have to fling Schengen. she was dancing to the tune of those We must not repeat the mistake of the ourselves out into outer space. We can unaccountable vested interests that I hard-line Brexiteers and ignore those find, in my view, a resting place, in which alluded to earlier. and leave empty-handed those who we’re not in the inner core but nor are So, if the pendulum were to swing in are on the losing side in any debate or we excluding ourselves so summarily the next few months and years back the democracy. I personally think the way to and so thoroughly as we are. It is high other way and there were to be a chance do that is to ensure that we build upon time now that the European Union, all of effect, an emergency brake in those to reopen this issue, first in Parliament what we had anyway in the European the European Union including the EU 27 cases where there are exceptional and then maybe eventually through a Union. We already had a kind of have- as well as the United Kingdom, should levels of intra-EU immigration within the people’s vote, on the terms of any deal, your-cake-and-eat-it status within the revisit how we as a continent deal with labour markets within the EU. I think it’s crucial for those, like me, who European Union. Members of the single the mass movement of people across And so, I have sought to explain believe that our long-term vocation and market but not members of Schengen. borders. I am as liberal on issues of why I think there is an overwhelming mission as a country is to be a member Leading members in foreign defence free movement as anybody else, but it democratic argument to keep the issue of the European Union, that we must not policy, but with an absolute national is simply impossible to ignore the fact of our membership of the European make the same mistake. We must not veto on those vital decisions. An that for many reasons – some good, Union alive. I have sought to explain some bad, some real, some perceived, why I think the siren voices of ‘come some to do with the huge inflow of along, move along, better make the people across the Mediterranean from best of it, let’s not grumble, get on with outside the European Union into the it now,’ is actually a dangerous counsel south and south-east of the continent, of passivity. I’ve also sought to explain others with the uneven way in which what we must do if the pendulum labour markets were opened when the were to swing the other way. Those European community was expanding in of us who believe our country has a Central-Eastern Europe – the orthodoxy European vocation must learn from the of unqualified movement into and egregious mistake of the ideological across the continent is something that and in my view unaccountable zealotry does not enjoy the unqualified support of the hard-line Brexiteers and must of millions of our fellow citizens across make a better attempt than they have the European Union. I myself think it of genuinely reuniting our deeply and is totally doable and deliverable, both sadly divided country. to administer the external borders of the European Union more effectively, Nick Clegg was Leader of the Liberal which I think is essential if you want to Democrats from 2007 to 2015 and keep the borderless arrangements of Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to the Schengen countries, as borderless 2015. He writes here in a personal as they are, whilst also introducing, in capacity.

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referendum does not include a This migration has not proved easy More intensive global trade has Britain After A question about motivations. But to explain in terms that those already increased the competitive pressures among the many factors contributing feeling excluded could easily reconcile on firms and countries. Technological to the 2016 referendum result was with their own economic anxieties, and change has speeded up the adjustments Brexit: The undoubtedly a protest against the impact concerns about pressures on public and investments needed to remain of economic dislocation over many services. The UK’s centralised political competitive, through new skills, research Political and decades, and a more recent concern system was slow to understand that the and technological infrastructure. about immigration, linked to wider issues benefits and costs of economic migration Even without the Brexit referendum of national identity. were unevenly distributed. this would be a major challenge. For Economic The 1980s saw a disruptive reduction For a period, the combination of low- nearly all the postwar period British to our traditional industries just as the UK cost easily available labour in Asia, cheap politics has been mostly about managing Choices became the most centralised country in credit, and growing global markets the economy to ensure jobs, prosperity western Europe. At a time when France allowed successive UK governments and improved public services. The goals was making an effort to move power to produce over-optimistic growth of increased economic growth and Ahead out of Paris to new regional structures, projections and budgets that assumed decent schools, hospitals and housing Sir Martin Donnelly fiscal centralisation in London at the cyclical tax revenue from the booming were broadly shared – the question was expense of local government became City would carry on forever, allowing who could provide them most efficiently entrenched. increased public spending without tax and fairly. So when we came to the sunnier rises. economic years lasting from the early But after the 2008 crash the UK faced THE CHALLENGES FOR 1990s to the 2008 financial crash there an unsustainable deficit and the need for NATIONAL POLITICS was a backlog of social and economic fast and difficult adjustment measures Just as this economic adjustment exclusion across the UK which London to stop the economy, and the exchange process becomes more complex and based central government found hard to rate, falling off a cliff. These cut the real faster the second trend – concern about engage with effectively. New high tech income of working families, and the control of migration – has released a and service sectors began to flourish, value of social benefits, while unwise disruptive form of identity politics into our but around universities and existing commitments to protect pensioners national debate. This is of course a real tech hubs rather than in former industrial regardless of income meant that the and continuing issue for any democratic areas; and with a heavy focus on London burdens were not shared fairly across polity. The definition of who we are, and the wider south east. society. how we choose to define ourselves, The speed and scale of globalisation By 2016, this squeeze had lasted our traditions, values and core narrative have transformed how business works. nearly a decade, exacerbated by growth rightly matters to people. In 1980, China was a negligible part of the of wealth in property assets in the south But in itself the politics of who we global economy, smaller than Belgium in east of England. think we are does not help answer the trade terms. Today, China is the world’s So, even without sections of the media question: ‘how do we become better off.’ largest exporter, with a GDP more than and politicians for whom no caricature of four times bigger than the UK, fully Europe was too extreme, no distortion integrated into global supply chains from too implausible, there was a widely felt steel to telecoms and an increasingly sense that the economic hardship of too important investor overseas. many communities was not being taken The global population in 1980 was seriously in our politics. This inevitably But after the 2008 crash the around 4.5 billion. Today, it is 7.5 billion. In fed into the EU referendum debate, and UK faced an unsustainable 20 years it will be 9.5 billion. The sustained its outcome. rise in global migration in recent decades The problem is that protesting does deficit and the need for fast is not therefore surprising. It has been not change the reality of what is needed and difficult adjustment facilitated by increases in income for the to prosper in a complex and competitive very poorest, and falling transport costs, global economy. Low levels of public measures to stop the as well as labour market needs in richer trust in existing structures and technical economy, and the exchange economies. expertise make effective solutions rate, falling off a cliff. harder to agree and implement.

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Who we are is an easy issue for people announced with unrealistic timescales to relate to; how we best adjust to a for delivery. rapidly changing international economic Any national political system will environment is difficult and uncertain struggle to manage the challenges and often raises tough trade-offs for of economic globalisation, related governments and wider societies. migration pressures and wider identity Preventing political debate moving issues. The UK choice of informal away from the hard, important issues centralisation of power around a Prime towards the easy, seductive ones – what Minister makes this harder to achieve we might call introverted politics – is a in a way which maintains wider national huge challenge. And it comes at a time support for difficult decisions and the when the workings of the British political compromises they require. And this has and governmental systems have been proved particularly true of relations with changing profoundly. Europe. The Prime Minister’s Office was around 70-strong in the time of Mrs Thatcher in EU STRENGTHS AND the 1980s. Today, it numbers some 200. LIMITATIONS Political advisers to the Prime Minister The EU single market led to a have doubled from 20 when Tony Blair massive sustained integration of first came to power to around 40 today UK manufacturing and increasingly in the May administration. services into the wider EU economy, This centralisation of presentation reducing prices and widening business and policy around the Prime Minister opportunities. has inevitably reduced the authority and Trade flows across the Channel scope of individual ministers. Decisions have tripled in the last 25 years. For a risk being made on the basis of less- generation, people, investments and detailed information or analysis than increasingly data have moved freely is available to departments, which across European borders that no longer then struggle to implement policies have much economic meaning. Half of the UK’s international investment comes from EU countries and is part of integrated supply chains – investment and trade go together. But the EU is also complex, slow, inefficient and constantly compromising. Easy to criticise, and never living up to The Prime Minister’s Office its full potential. Market integration also was around 70-strong in the required an explicit acceptance of a shared European legal framework, which time of Mrs Thatcher in the was not part of the UK’s own heritage. 1980s. Today, it numbers So when frustrations with the some 200. Political advisers pressures of globalisation, poor national economic management and fears about to the Prime Minister have migration came together there was little doubled from 20 when Tony active support for the EU in UK national politics; indeed careers had been made Blair first came to power to on criticising it. around 40 today in the May And the EU has been an easy administration. scapegoat for migration and identity fears, even though the UK is not part of

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 32 Martin Donnelly, Britain After Brexit HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS HERTFORD HIGHLIGHTS Martin Donnelly, Britain After Brexit 33 the Schengen borderless area. often taking a leading role in European of separation which requires justification a primarily technical issue, managed It is striking too that in other EU member programmes, more critical – just as through discovered difference, remotely from the people it affects. states where migration has become a Brexit threatens to limit their involvement. adding to the populist temptation in Nor can it be achieved by pretending disruptive political issue a distinction is The UK’s growing digital sector faces Westminster. Devolving more fiscal and that the world is other than it is, or that usually made between European migrant uncertainties over the extent of their policy decisions away from Whitehall is tales of buccaneering Britain will pay workers and those from third countries. access to the European market and extra therefore urgent if we are to combat this the bills. This distinction, which of course exists controls on EU migration. trend. We need a serious political debate in European law, has never been widely Less successful economic We may now be entering a period which brings national identity and accepted in England. performance and slower growth makes it of political change as fundamental as economic reality together in real harder to fund health, welfare, education that a century ago for the shape of the choices. The longer we leave this, the OUR ECONOMIC CHOICES and other priorities, just as the EU United Kingdom, its internal political and harder those choices will become. Outside the EU’s legal framework the UK referendum outcome adds an additional economic structures, and its view of faces tough choices between economic layer of toxic disagreement about how itself. How do we find a way of agreeing Sir Martin Donnelly was Permanent prosperity and more protectionist we think of ourselves in the world. on our shared and separate identities? Secretary at the Department of models of national identity. Economically, No one plausibly claims that the UK’s Is there a willingness to share power Business, Innovation and Skills the UK is not large enough to change ability to manage globalisation and both inside the UK and externally too, from 2010 to 2016, and then at the the course of globalisation alone; we national identity issues will be solved so as to maintain some influence on an Department of International Trade must adjust to external reality. Assuming through even more centralisation of increasingly non-Western world? from 2016 to 2017. He is currently an we leave the EU in March 2019, difficult power at Westminster. So part of the What is clear is that economic Academic Visitor at Hertford. The relations with our former partners look post-referendum settlement must be prosperity can no longer be treated as views expressed here are his own. inevitable for years ahead. Decisions a change in how political power is taken in Brussels are going to affect distributed within the UK, to genuinely UK businesses and individuals, and give citizens more control over local Westminster politicians will resent losing decisions. control of those decisions. To restore more balance to national In practice, EU rules on environmental government requires less centralisation standards, medicine safety, intellectual around the Prime Minister’s office, and property, data protection, mergers more scrutiny over how that power policy, chemicals, professional standards is used. It also means cities, regions and many others will continue to be and the devolved nations having a followed in the UK if only because guaranteed space within which to make business does not want a plethora of their own decisions on taxation and different standards. But following them spending priorities, a model familiar to will no longer offer automatic market every other liberal democracy. access within the EU unless we change The alternative is a prolonged period of our position on the role of the European inward-looking identity politics, focused Court of Justice, the application of EU on control of power in Westminster. This law within the UK and in practice accept will make it harder to achieve sensible continued free movement of workers. decisions on economic issues. Identity- Departure from the EU will also be a based national politics are incapable major distraction from adjusting to the of doing justice to the complexity and disruptive impact of artificial intelligence interdependence of the global economy. on existing employment patterns. Under economic pressure and social Artificial intelligence and the internet’s discontent identity politics moves easily growing capacity to handle big data are from a discussion of who we are to further integrating services and physical a focus on who we are not – and that goods, making any distinction between search for the other to condemn as a To restore more balance to national government requires less them harder to sustain. way to define ourselves is as we know a centralisation around the Prime Minister’s office, and more These trends make the value added by deeply dangerous path to take. 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rofessor Alison Young was elected never heard of. She was, in the very It was no surprise to any of us that she Professor P to a Fellowship in Law at Hertford best sense, an exemplar of ‘old Oxford’. was elected to the Sir David Williams College in 2000. She first arrived in A brilliant scholar. A tutor completely Chair in Public Law at the University Hertford as a graduate student in 1993 committed to the undergraduate tutorial of Cambridge, and to a fellowship at Alison Young to read for the BCL. She then completed as a vocation. A steadfast support for Robinson College. To be Professor her DPhil on freedom of expression students in difficulty and distress. A pillar of Public Law in Oxford is impressive and libel. This followed a stellar record of sagacity and good sense in Governing enough. To be Professor of Public Law as an undergraduate at the University Body. in Cambridge in the same lifetime is, of Birmingham, where she came top She was also a most kind and well, just greedy. It is no more than of her year in the LLB. Together with generous colleague. Alison and I worked she deserves. I do not doubt that the the intellectually formidable Roy Stuart, together for 14 years at Hertford. During University of Cambridge and Robinson Law at Hertford was the envy of most that time, she was completely loyal and College knows how lucky they are to colleges in Oxford when I first arrived supportive through good times and have her. as a new fellow in 2003. This was bad. The overriding sense of our time reflected in the brilliant results achieved together as colleagues was laughter. Alan Bogg by Hertford lawyers in Law Moderations Lots of it. Mostly about silly things. For Professor Alan Bogg was Fellow and and Law Finals. In the Law Faculty, someone with such an impressive Tutor in Law at Hertford from 2003 Alison established herself as one of the intellect, she didn’t take herself, others, to 2017, when he took up his present leading public lawyers of her generation college life, or academia more generally, post as Professor of Labour Law at the and in due course her international more seriously than it deserved. University of Bristol. achievements were recognised when the University conferred on her the title of Professor of Public Law. Her path to international stardom was assured when the judgment in R (Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union) was being argued, as Alison quickly became the BBC’s ‘go to’ scholar for perceptive and accessible explanation of the case and its constitutional significance. The watching world then had the benefit of her famous constitutional law tutorials, which had previously been confined to those Oxford undergraduates who were lucky enough to be taught by her. We could list and dissect her many academic accolades, but that would be to miss the most important things about her. What really distinguished Alison was her kindness, patience and integrity as a tutor and colleague. She was loved by generations of Hertford undergraduates and graduates because they recognised that they mattered to her. Every one of them. Discussions of parliamentary sovereignty and select committees would be interspersed by pots of tea, the revelation of obscure facts from Doctor Who, and insights into the musical life of popular bands that her colleague had

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oger Pensom, Emeritus Fellow A Tribute R of Hertford College and formerly University Lecturer of Old French Language and Literature at the to Dr Roger University of Oxford, passed away in June 2018 aged 79. Roger was a Pensom, distinguished scholar of medieval French literature (publishing monographs on La Chanson de Roland (1982), Béroul 1939-2018 (1995), Aucassin et Nicolette (1999) and Villon (2004)) as well as a formidable linguist, making important contributions to our understanding of the historical development of rhythm in French. His last book, Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French, has just appeared with Legenda. Roger was an immensely valued colleague, first at the University of Exeter and then at Oxford, where he was University Lecturer in French Philology and Fellow of Hertford College from 1985 to 2003. An exceptionally sharp critical mind and a charismatic lecturer, Roger was equally an exceptionally unassuming and gentle person: a generous tutor and a kind colleague, renowned for his distinctive sense of humour. His productions of medieval French plays in Hertford quad, performed in the original language, were especially popular. He was also an accomplished musician, whether playing occasional duets with students in his study on harpsichord or recorder, or singing medieval French texts in undergraduate lectures; his regular performance of the first laisse of the Chanson de Roland drew a packed house from students across the An exceptionally sharp disciplines. critical mind and a We plan to have a fuller tribute in the next charismatic lecturer, Roger issue of the Magazine. Any old members was equally an exceptionally who have memories of Roger they would like to share can write to the editor at unassuming and gentle [email protected]. person: a generous tutor and a kind colleague, renowned for his distinctive sense of humour.

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aul spent the whole of his adult life publishing for the sake of debate. His like a coach driver sitting at the wheel of A tribute P in Oxford. As an undergraduate, real contribution, he felt, was teaching the coach in my blazer marking essays. postgraduate and Senior Scholar he and inspiring undergraduates to see He didn’t really like my blazers. Most of was at Christ Church and as a Lecturer the interconnections of the subject and our public comments were of that ilk, to Dr Paul and Fellow he migrated to Hertford. to introduce enjoyment and, dare I say, especially during open days and field He also held a teaching post at Jesus fun into the subject of Geography. He trips. Field trips... we went on a dozen or Coones, College for a number of years so that enjoyed correcting spelling mistakes, more taking first year students on week- his accumulated stipend would enable grammatical errors and Americanisms long field trips to European destinations, him to achieve a very basic standard with his very small writing. Nothing especially Mallorca and, more recently, 1955-2018 of living. He lived in a room in Hertford escaped his red pen; student essays, seven or eight times to Crete. We which was deemed too small to give to college notice boards, public notice worked hard and really had fun. I think an undergraduate. boards... and in any subject. He even the students did too. Paul didn’t complain. He never embraced technology... I often received Come to Hertford lunchtimes and complained about his lot. Unfailingly corrected emails which I had sent him. invariably you would see Paul and me polite, mild of manner, he had an old world Paul should have embraced walking around the quad after lunch. charm which never changed. He was Americanisms... he was half American Come rain or shine we would walk kind, considerate and compassionate in himself. His father was American who dozens of circuits. Our students knew dealings with everyone, especially the lived with his wife in America, before where we were and so could avoid the college staff and undergraduates. Paul was even thought of. They returned quad and us... or more usually they would We first met at Christ Church 40 years to Britain following the anti-American wait in turn to join us for a couple of laps, ago. He was standing in his supervisor’s purges by US government officials for asking their questions, before peeling off room leaning against an Adam fireplace, believing in equal rights for all. Paul as we passed the lodge so that another his hair long, looking a lot like Oscar continued that trait which he certainly could join us. Wilde. ‘Hello,’ I said ‘I’m Peter Bull, I’m a inherited from his parents. Good for him. Paul was retired by college in 2012. He physical geographer.’ Paul said, ‘Hello, Indeed, Paul spoke to me about his was able to concentrate on his music, I’m Paul Coones, I don’t differentiate.’ early years in Willesden in London where performance and conducting. He was And did he not prove that to me over he would see ‘official looking men’ asked to be chairman of the Sheldonian the next 40 years! As a geographer he peering through the home letterbox Theatre Curators. He loved it in there. studied Russia... all of it from physiography asking him questions about his parents. Look at the pictures online of him clearly to religion, political theories especially Teaching and inspiring ‘the young’ enjoying the building and its fabric. through the works of Mackinder and were his main goals in college. I must end by offering my personal other historical figures. I remember Long before colleges succumbed to thanks to Vicky Arnold and the Chaplain, one period of time when he published government and opposition pressures Mia Smith, for all that they did for Paul, in in The Journal of Historical Geography to socially engineer the selection of life and in death. Of course I extend my on Russia, The Bruckner Journal on students for Oxford, Paul would visit condolences to Paul’s cousin, Charles conducting and The Proceedings of the schools for their open days and subject and his family and to all of you, his friends Geological Society of Great Britain on talks. We often went together. and colleagues who will miss him as I do. the geology of the Forest of Dean. Back I remember us talking to prospective Goodbye to my friend and brother. in his early years he published, with John candidates and their parents in a grand Patten, the acclaimed The Landscape school hall. I introduced us saying that Peter Bull of England and Wales, with Penguin Paul looked like what an Oxford don Peter Bull was Fellow and Tutor in Press. Most recently, in May this year, should look like. He was, I said, born in a Physical Geography at Hertford from he initiated a debate in The Guardian grey suit, in fact he was born in that very 1985 until his retirement in 2017. He where he wondered why Meghan grey suit. Paul responded that he might delivered this eulogy at Paul Coones’s Markle was to be walked down the aisle well look like an Oxford don but I looked funeral on 1 October 2018. by her father, when in fact she was to be processed up the nave! Paul probably didn’t keep a list of all of his publications in a file; such as is the wont of most academics. He enjoyed

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t any Gaudy speech in the last 25 equally with undergraduates and dons, quirks of SCR members. Never one to Kenny A years, while reference to familiar, showing instinctive loyalty and unfeigned initiate indiscretion, the occasional raised distinguished, notorious or revered cheerfulness to all, a seemingly eternal eyebrow or suppressed grin told of an Fellows might elicit from the old optimist, at times against severe odds. The acute observer of the donnish comedy. Lewis: An members a murmur of recognition, a sigh Lewis smile could light a parish. Whether The long, 15-year-pairing of Kenny with of recollection, or even the odd chirrup of playing football for the college or dealing Paul Coones as SCR Steward, however Appreciation applause or laughter, mention of Kenny with the foibles of the SCR, he treated quixotic (Kenny as Sancho Panza is not Lewis would invariably be greeted with the college not just as an employer or entirely inapt), appears in retrospect as loud cheers, halloos and prolonged institution, but, in all its peculiar attitudes, an Indian summer of a certain sort of chants of ‘Ke-nny! Ke-nny!’, and not just aspects and eccentricities, almost a strenuous SCR collegiality. For Kenny, from veterans of the football field and second home, in whose members he perhaps, these were golden years; he college bar. Kenny was a remarkable found enjoyment, entertainment and a liked seeing Fellows enjoying the SCR college servant, a phrase now sense of purpose. He could be active and, within reason, saw it as his job to unfashionable but one that Kenny would and fierce in his defence of the place, do what he could to assist. Although recognise without shame. For exactly 40 as memorably when he single-handedly never one to welcome change, Kenny years, until illness forced early retirement repelled an attack on the SCR by a nevertheless recognised, if at times with this summer, in all he did for the college posse of lit-up young would-be farmers some puzzlement, altered demands, Kenny exemplified an inheritance of from Cirencester who had tried to loot novel habits, even new IT. Occasionally, service that neither condescended Fellows’ gowns, one of many stories that, innovations and management diktat nor demeaned, a tradition to which he embroidered with age, mark the career of caused not unreasonable annoyance added his own unique contribution and a major college character. and bewilderment. Nevertheless, for a style. An imposing presence, a pioneer Kenny would be the first to recognise quarter of a century, that the SCR worked of recruitment from a previously under- that over the decades the college at all rested with Kenny. represented community, he managed provided him with sustained support and However, Kenny’s influence reached the exceptional trick of getting on personal opportunities. His promotion out beyond the SCR into the wider through the ranks of the staff to become college. Undergraduates are probably the SCR Butler in 1994 relied on a mutual rather better than dons at sensing trust that he repaid with an abundance sympathetic personalities. With them, of genial unforced commitment. Given Kenny was an abiding hit, his unaffected his background, his appointment was friendliness securing affection across seen by some at the time as bold, even the generations. In 2018, to mark his 40 controversial. He certainly brought to years in college, and in signal recognition his role as SCR Butler a new approach. of his role in college life, a splendid Whereas his formidable predecessors, portrait of Kenny by Ben Sullivan was Norman Bayliss and Richard Holder, commissioned. It now hangs prominently under both of whom he had worked, in the SCR. Typically, Kenny was initially were old-school Oxford figures, running rather disturbed by the attention but, in the SCR very much on their own terms, the end, rather pleased with the result. Kenny instead set out to please and, Kenny is passionately devoted to his if possible, to accommodate Fellows’ family, many of whom over the years wishes, even the extravagant or could be found sharing in the welcoming indulgent. He had his own distinctive sociability of the SCR pantry. He can now management features, but none that set enjoy them to the full, freed from the unnecessary limits on what, at various interruption of college chores which he times, could be exacting requirements. will miss but not as much as the college Dining at Hertford was occasionally lively will miss him. For many years to come as well as hospitable. Yet, whatever came Gaudies will still ring to shouts of ‘Ke-nny! his way was met with the same self- Ke-nny!’ effacing, obliging willingness to help. This is not to say that Kenny was blind to the Christopher Tyerman

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hilst studying the music of fin- similar work and was subsequently various themes, both musical and literary, Preston W de-siècle Vienna I came across invited to Salzburg by Dr Klemens permeate the drama. The libretto and the the author Stefan Zweig and, having Renoldner and Professor Arturo Larcati. accompanying score tell a great amount become fascinated by the way in which These two scholars have a wealth about the political and philosophical Travel Report: his work reflects the themes of nostalgia of publications between them and run views expressed by both Zweig and and loss common during this period, the Stefan Zweig Centre, a part of the Strauss and I believe the conception Stefan Zweig focused my undergraduate dissertation University of Salzburg, in collaboration of the work, following Ben Jonson, on his relationship to music as exhibited with various funding bodies of the presents a clear and tangible link to in his publications and manuscript European Union. I applied to the Preston the philosophy of loss and the power of in Vienna collections. Zweig was an extraordinarily Travel Fund and, with extra support from music found throughout Zweig’s oeuvre. popular author and famous figure across the Faculty of Music, was able to cover the My time in Munich and Salzburg was Europe during the first decades of the entire cost of the trip. Visiting the centre very rewarding and helped to shape my twentieth century. Although his work has in Salzburg provided me with a chance arguments and better appreciate the faded from popular consciousness, it to engage with a number of unpublished experiences that determined Zweig’s still provides a captivating, if sometimes works and important artefacts as well as values and beliefs. problematic, window into the zeitgeist of participate in an open discussion about I would like to thank the Preston Travel the period. Alongside his publications, the life of Zweig and his relationship Fund for its support since this research Zweig was a famous antiquarian and to music. They assisted me in focusing project was truly enriching from the first collector of autograph and first-edition my argument and provided me with a conception to the final draft and would manuscripts by authors and composers number of new areas to consider. To not have been possible without financial whom he regarded as influential in his be in the city that influenced him so aid. I continue to read and research teleological view of the Austro-German profoundly was extremely rewarding. Zweig and am still regularly enthralled as canon. I wanted to find out, therefore, I then travelled to Munich, having I discover more about his fascinating life why Zweig collected so many scores, been given a ticket by the National and complex relationship to music in a understand the connotations this has Theatre and Bayerische Staatsoper to rapidly changing Europe. for our understanding of the artefact or watch the sold-out production of Die musical work, and analyse whether this Schweigsame Frau. The chance to Robert Ham read Music at Hertford reflects the politics and philosophies of watch the rarely-performed opera of from 2015 to 2018. He is now on the the time. Strauss and Zweig in the same theatre NHS National Graduate Management Because of the varied nature of these that hosted many premieres of their Training Scheme and working as objectives I began working my way work was extraordinary. Furthermore, business manager for older peoples’ through the vast array of resources and the ability to experience the work in mental health across Hampshire in was grateful to receive great support its entirety provided me with a much Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. when requesting to access them. I better insight into the way in which the started by viewing the Stefan Zweig Collection stored in the British Library and was extremely appreciative for this support. Equally, his works of fiction and non-fiction and his enlightening autobiography, The World of Yesterday, provided great opportunities to consider Zweig’s views on these issues whilst other notable biographies and critical examinations were crucial. Finally, the libretti for the two operas he devised Visiting the centre in Salzburg provided me with a chance to for Strauss, Die Schweigsame Frau and Friedenstag, exhibited many of the engage with a number of unpublished works and important author’s views about music expressed artefacts as well as participate in an open discussion about the elsewhere. As the project progressed, life of Zweig and his relationship to music. I began to contact others involved in

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n 2018, two teams from Hertford houses implicates the industry as a Technology has served as an Tri-Innovate I entered the Tri-Innovate whole in a wide, some could argue enormous catalyst for transparency and Competition, which gives students the systematic, flaw within this struggling openness. Whole sectors have been opportunity to pitch start-up ideas to a sector. opened up to the power of the crowd, 2018: panel of judges for a prize and future Yet none of this should be a surprise epitomised by the rapid growth of mentoring. Here is the report from one to anyone. crowdfunding sites looking to transform Undried Ink of the teams, composed entirely of first As an unpublished book passes financing for small businesses. As year students. through the publication process, it is Funding Circle plans for its IPO with The list of books repeatedly rejected read solely by agents, publishers and an expected valuation of around by publishers before going on to other literary professionals. It is unlikely £1.5 billion, it seems undeniable that become retail hits is quite unbelievable. that any of the book’s target market opening up traditional sectors to the From Animal Farm to Lord of the Flies, gets a copy prior to publication. It public could be an exciting source for Harry Potter and a whole host of other seems unsurprising that mistakes occur future opportunities. Through Undried big names, it definitely appears that the so regularly, when so few opinions are Ink, we planned to do just that in the prevalence of such errors by publishing heard. publishing industry.

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Our vision was to provide popular aspiring authors, allowing us crowdsourced reviews and support to bypass much of the tedious and for aspiring authors, offering them opaque publishing process altogether. a cheaper alternative to traditional Whilst we did not win the competition, agents, whilst still giving valuable our entire team – myself, Kresimir assistance on their path to publication. Krajnovic and Jacob Kalnins-Holtom (all We would connect writers with people first year Economics and Management willing to read their drafts and share students at Hertford) – found the whole their opinions, whilst these readers experience unbelievably valuable. We would benefit from exciting new had the opportunity to attend the finals, content alongside great financial being the only undergraduate team incentives. Our main challenge as a to achieve this feat, and presented start-up was to develop the necessary in front of around 60 people. These critical mass of readers and writers included professors, venture capitalists which would enable the service to and fellow entrepreneurial students. become viable and beneficial for both Through speaking to some of the parties. Our solution to this issue was judges, we received a lot of valuable to emphasise the value of community advice relating both to our business to our readership, offering them chat idea alongside more individual features, perks and further benefits to areas for professional and personal attract new sign-ups as well as return development. visitors. In the longer term, we would We are so grateful to have received hope that Undried Ink could become this opportunity and are all on the a database for the unpublished books lookout for an exciting new idea! our readers have enjoyed and rated highly. Publishers would then pay to James Caplan (Economics & access the contact details of our most Management 2017)

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VISITOR Zhanfeng F Cui, BSc Inner Mongolia Oliver J Noble Wood, BA MSt DPhil Fellows and The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, IT, MSc PhD Dalian UT, MA DSc Oxf, Oxf, Tutor in Modern Languages and CH, PC, MA, DCL, Chancellor of the Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Steward of the SCR University Engineering Luis F Alday, Lic Bariloche, PhD Triest, Lecturers Claire Vallance, BSc (hons) PhD Professor of Mathematical Physics and PRINCIPAL Canterbury New Zealand, Professor of Tutor in Mathematics Will N Hutton, BSocSc Brist, MBA Physical Chemistry and Tutor in Physical Simon F Brewster, BSc MB BS Lond, MD INSEAD, MA Oxf Chemistry Brist, FRCS, Senior Research Fellow and David R Greaves BSc Brist, MA Oxf, PhD Co-ordinator for Clinical Medicine FELLOWS Lond, Professor of Inflammation Biology Giora Sternberg, BSc MA Tel Aviv, DPhil Tony Wilson, MA DPhil Oxf, FREng, and Tutor in Medicine and Physiology Professor of Engineering Science and Oxf, Associate Professor of Early Modern Tutor in Engineering Hagan Bayley, MA Oxf, PhD Harvard, History, Ellis-Barnard Fellow and Tutor in FRS, Professor of Chemical Biology History David I Stuart, BSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Brist, FRS, Professorial and Senior Roger N E Barton, BA Birm, DEA Michael J Wooldridge, BSc CNAA, PhD Research Fellow in Molecular Biophysics Bordeaux, MA DPhil Oxf, FSA, Professor Manc, FAAAI, FACM, FBCS, FEurAI, of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Tutor in FSSAISB, MAE, Professor and Senior Charlotte D Brewer, MA DPhil Oxf, MA Archaeology Research Fellow in Computer Science, Toronto, Professor of English Language and Dean of Degrees and Literature, Tutor in English Alan Lauder, BSc Glas, PhD Lond, Professor and Tutor in Mathematics, Jamie S P Lorimer, BSc PhD Brist, Christopher J Schofield, BSc Manc, MA Dean of Degrees Associate Professor in Human DPhil Oxf, FRS, Professor of Organic Geography and Tutor in Geography Chemistry and Senior Research Fellow Martin C J Maiden BSc R’dg, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FMedSci, FRCPath, Manolis Chatzis, MPhil PhD Columbia, Patrick F Roche, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, MSc Dipl National TU Athens, Associate Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics, Tutor in Biological Sciences and Tutor Professor and Tutor Engineering Investment Bursar for Graduates Rebecca M A Sitsapesan, BSc Aberd, Stephen J New, BSc S’ton, MA Oxf, PhD David S G Thomas, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Leeds, PhD Strath, Professor of Manc, Associate Professor and Tutor in Professor of Geography Phramacology and Tutor in Medicine Management Studies, Student Conduct Officer David M Hopkin, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, Julia Thaxton, MA Camb, Director of FRHistS, Armstrong-Macintyre-Markham Development Dame Kay E Davies, MA DPhil Oxf, Fellow, Professor of European Social Arnaud Doucet, PhD Paris XI, Professor FMedSci, FRS, DBE, CBE, Dr Lee’s History, Tutor in History and Senior Tutor Professor of Anatomy and Associate in Statistics Head (Development, Impact and Katherine S Lunn-Rockliffe, MA MSt DPhil David W Dwan, BA Oxf, MA PhD Lond, Equality), Medical Sciences Division Oxf, Tutor in Modern Languages Associate Professor of Irish Literature Emma Smith, MA DPhil Oxf, Professor of Peter J R Millican, BPhil MA Oxf, MSc PhD and Tutor in English Shakespeare Studies, Tutor in English, Leeds, Gilbert Ryle Fellow, Professor of Catherine Redford, MA PhD Brist, MA Tutor for Women, Tutor for Equality and Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy Oxf, Career Development Fellow and Diversity, and Fellow Librarian Christopher J Tyerman, MA DPhil Oxf, Access and Outreach Officer Bjarke M Frellesvig, MA PhD FRHistS, Professor of the History of the Ian R McBride, BA Oxf, PhD Lond, Copenhagen, MA Oxf, Professor of Crusades, Senior Research Fellow, Tutor FRHistS, Foster Professor of Irish History in History and Fellow Archivist Japanese Linguistics and Tutor in Jamie K Clark, MA Camb, MA Oxf, Bursar Japanese Jieun J Kiaer, BA MA Seoul National, PhD Lond, Senior Research Fellow and Elizabeth C Baldwin, MMath, MPhil, Alison Woollard, BSc Lond, MA DPhil DPhil, Roger Van Noorden Fellow and Oxf, Tutor in Biochemistry and Dean Tutor in Oriental Studies, and Dean of Degrees Associate Professor of Economics, Tutor in Economics Radoslaw Zubek, MSc PhD Lond, MA Poznan, Associate Professor of European Politics and Tutor in Politics

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Siddhath Ashok Parameswaran, BA BS Alan W Day, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Sir Nicholas F St George Jackson, Bt, MA Maria J Gravato-Nobre, Lic Lisboa, MSc Rochester, PhD Princeton, Associate Carnegie Mellon Oxf Faro, PhD Nott, Biochemistry Professor of Theoretical Physics and Robin C E Devenish, MA PhD Camb, MA The Very Revd Jeffrey P H John, MA Clive Hambler, MA Oxf, Biological and Tutor in Physics Oxf DPhil Oxf, Hon DLitt Herts Human Sciences Andrew C Cropper, BSc Nott, MSc Oxf, Fionn P E Dunne, BSc Brist, MEngSc NUI, Sir Jeffrey L Jowell, KCMG, QC, LLB Odile B Harrison, BSc PhD DIC Imp, PhD Imp, Junior Research Fellow in MA Oxf, PhD Sheff, FREnd Cape Town, MA Oxf, LLM, SJD Harvard Biology Computer Science K A McLauchlan, BSc PhD Brist, MA Oxf, Soweto Kinch, BA Oxf Samuel Henry, MSc Durh, DPhil Oxf, Teodora B Boneva, MPhil PhD Camb, FRS Physics Associate Professor and Tutor in John M Landers, MA DLitt Oxf, PhD Economics William D Macmillan, BSc PhD Brist, MA Camb, FRHistS Sarah Jenkinson, MChem DPhil Oxf, Oxf Chemistry Louise J E Slater, PhD St And, Associate Thomas McMahon Professor and Tutor in Gepgraphy Thomas N Paulin, BA Hull, BLitt MA Oxf Paul V F S Manduca, BA Oxf Sandra Kotzor, Magister Munich, DPhil Oxf, Linguistics Kate Greasley, BA BCL DPhil Oxf, Laszlo Solymar, MA Oxf, PhD Budapest, Paul Muldoon, BA Belf, MA Oxf Associate Professor and Tutor in Law FRS Michael Laidlaw, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, David P Pannick, Lord Pannick of Radlett, Chemistry Andreas Galanis, MSc Athens, MSc Brian F Steer, MA DPhil Oxf QC, BCL MA Oxf Naomi Lloyd-Jones, BA KCL, MPhil PhD Georgia Tech, Dipl National TU Gerald C Stone, BA PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Sir Bruce Pattullo, Kt, CBE FBA Camb, AKC KCL, History Athens, Associate Professor and Tutor in Mary Robinson, BA LLB Dub, LLM Computer Science John R Torrance, MA Oxf Jonathon McIntosh, BA MA Oxf, MA Harvard, Hon DCL Oxf, MRIA MPhil Lond, Philosophy Geraldine A Wright, BSc MSc DPhil Oxf, George K Yarrow, MA Camb, MA Oxf Jacqui Smith, PC, MA Oxf Professor of Neuroethology and Tutor in Max Marcus, BSc Bonn, MSc Oxf, Alison L Young, LLB BIrm, BCL MA DPhil Helen M Warnock, Baroness Warnock Chemistry Biological Sciences Oxf of Weeke, CH, DBE, MA, Hon FBA, Hon Joanna C Neilly, BA Oxf, MA Belf, PhD Petros Ligoxygakis, BA Athens, MSc FRCP, Hon FRCP (Scotland) PhD Crete, MA Oxf, Professor of Innate HONORARY FELLOWS Edin, German Immunology and Tutor in Biochemistry John F H B Ashburton, The Rt Hon Lord Stephanie R West, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA Delia M O’Rourke, BSc PhD Lond, Fernana J Duarte Gonzalez, BSc PhD Ashburton, KG, KCVO, MA Oxf General Sir Roger N Wheeler, GCB, CBE Biochemistry Pontifical Catholic University Chile, Sir Walter Bodmer, MA PhD Camb, MA Tobias Wolff, BA Oxf, MA Stanford Richard A Povey, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Associate Professor and Tutor in Hon DSc Oxf, FRCPath, FRS Economics Theoretical Organic Chemistry Martin R Bridson, MA Oxf, MS PhD CHAPLAIN Mark Robinson, MA Oxf, PhD UCL, Cornell, FRS The Revd Maria A Smith, BA Middx, BA Archaeology EMERITUS FELLOWS Newc, PGCThM Durh John S Anderson, LLB Lond, BCL MA Oxf Nancee Oku Bright, MPhil DPhil Oxf Benjamin Skipp, Lic RSM, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Music Peter R Baker, BA MA R’dg, MA Oxf Sir Sherard L Cowper-Coles, KCMG, LECTURERS LVO, MA Oxf Janet Banfield, MSc Bath, MA DPhil Oxf, Nick Tasker, BPhil Oxf, BA Sheff, PhD Toby C Barnard, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, Leeds, Philosphy FRHistS, Hon MRIA John Dewar, BCL MA Oxf, PhD Griffith MRes Oxf Brookes, Geography Timothy Walker, MA, MHort RHS, Biology Martin Biddle, CBE, MA Camb, MA Oxf, Richard Fisher, MA Harvard, MBA Alexander Ewing, BA Colorado College, FBA, FSA Stanford MSc LSE, DPhil Oxf, Politics Claire Williams, BA Durh, MPhil PhD Camb, MA Oxf Alan L Bogg, BCL MA DPhil Oxf Thomas S F Fletcher, CMG, MA Oxf Bharath Ganesh, BA Berkeley, MSc PhD UCL, Geography Anthony P Bull, BSc MSc PhD Swansea, Robert F Foster, MA PhD Dub, MA Oxf, MA Oxf FBA, FRHistS, FRSL Anthony O J Cockshut, MA Oxf Sir David Goldberg, MA DM Oxf, FRCP, FRCPsych Thomas C Cunnane, BSc Bath, MA Oxf, PhD Glas Andrew S Goudie, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf Margaret J Dallman, BSc Brist, MA DPhil Oxf Sir Jeremy J Heywood, KCB, CB, CVO, BA Oxf, MSc Lond Karen P Day, BSc PhD Melbourne Charlotte M Hogg, BA Oxf

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Drue Heinz DBE old friend of Drue’s since his days as Honorary Drue Heinz, elected an Honorary Fellow Ambassador in Washington (the Heinzes of Hertford in 2000 and one of the feature in his entertaining diaries of the college’s most munificent donors, died period, published as Mandarin.) But her Fellows on Good Friday 2018 aged 103. She was omnivorous reading had already made News of Honorary Fellows one of the great cultural philanthropists her an admirer of Tom Paulin’s poetry, of modern times, devoted above all and at the opening of the Graduate to contemporary literature, though Centre she spent much of her time talking recipients of her generosity also to him; while an inveterate partygoer, included the National Portrait Gallery, she always relished the company of the Royal Academy, the Tate Gallery, writers above all. Her other Oxford RIBA, and the National Gallery of endowments included founding the Scotland. Born in obscure and humble Drue Heinz Chair of American Literature, circumstances in Norfolk, her colourful and her generosity to the Rothermere early life took her through two early Institute; however, her extraordinary marriages, a spell in France during range of involvements (and residences) World War II, and a brief acting career in meant that she visited Hertford only Hollywood before her long and happy on a couple of occasions. We owe marriage to the multi-millionaire Jack her much, and the inheritance she left Heinz in 1953. She became an arbiter to the cultural world is remarkable. of American high society, a famous Besides her great gifts to art galleries hostess, and the chatelaine of great and museums, the Hawthornden Castle houses in Pittsburgh, Florida, New York and the Hawthornden Prize are funded (One, Sutton Place) and Ascot Place, for the future, and the publishing firm near Windsor. A red-haired beauty in she founded called Ecco Press is a her youth, and always immensely stylish, continuing imprint. Her fierce and vivid she was made for the role of grande personality, and the way she lived her dame; but less predictably she also long and extraordinary life, suggested began funding literary journals such someone from a novel by Henry James as Antaeus and the Paris Review. The Prize for literature and taking a close or Edith Wharton, and appropriately, writers involved with these magazines, interest in its deliberations. She also reading remained her passion. among them Dan Halperin and George bought Casa Ecco, a substantial estate Characteristically, in a discussion Plimpton, became close friends, as did on Lake Como, which was both a writers’ about life after death she once remarked a wide range of novelists and poets. A retreat and the home of literary symposia dismissively, ‘but you can’t take a book lifelong insomniac, she read through attended by an extraordinary range of with you.’ the night and developed a keen and writers. These occasions were convened discriminating taste (the Paris Review by Grey Gowrie and monitored rather Roy Foster carried a long and perceptive interview terrifyingly by Drue herself, whose Professor Roy Foster was the Carroll which she conducted with the poet Ted gravelly mid-Atlantic drawl was made for Professor of Irish History and Fellow in Hughes in 1965). delivering a swinging put-down of any History at Hertford College from 1991 Devastated by Jack’s death in 1987, pretentious or sloppy remark. until his retirement in 2016. she devoted herself to giving away much Hertford’s Graduate Centre near of her immense wealth, while shunning Folly Bridge was made possible by Lord David Pannick publicity; she also was decisively a very large donation from Drue in A pleasing item of news we missed last original in the way she did it. She had 1999. The essential contact was made year: Lord David Pannick was named already bought Hawthornden Castle by Sir Nicholas (Nico) Henderson, Barrister of the Year at the Lawyer in Midlothian, probably the favourite always devoted to the college and an Awards, June 2017. among her many houses, and now converted it into a writers’ retreat, as well as endowing the valuable Hawthornden

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t was a delight for me to receive a Hertford I copy of last year’s Hertford College Magazine, in which may be found a record of the many and various ways in Society which the generosity of Hertford alumni (or more properly Old Members) has added to the fabric of college and to the enjoyment and richness of college life for over half a century. Although I had been present on The Hertford Society committee when many of the decisions in respect of these gifts had been made, I did not remember them all and both the frequency and value of the society’s contributions still surprises me. The Hertford College Magazine also includes an extensive report by Christopher Mockler on the restoration of a number of portraits by the Courtauld Institute and the Hamilton-Kerr Institute, with the assistance of the college and funded very substantially by the society. I would like to express, once again, on behalf of the society, our thanks to Chris own funds for these purposes. We my mind the advantages significantly for managing this extremely complicated are discussing with the Development outweigh the disadvantages, and project to a successful conclusion. Office a further communication to Old will also ensure close cooperation At our recent committee meeting, Paul Members to that end and will report on between the Society and the Emery, our Treasurer, reported that the progress presently. Development Office. society holds £10,500 in cash in its own This is of course the first time the My thanks, on behalf of the Society account and that a further £10,500 is Society has raised funds in this manner to the Principal and Governing Body held by college in the fund established and the long-term success or otherwise for allowing the Society to use college to accept donations from Old Members is, at present, uncertain. An obvious and its facilities today, and my thanks which the Society equates to a five- disadvantage is that the amount of also to all members of the committee year subscription for membership of money held by the Society itself will for their diligence and assiduous efforts the Society. This fund is to be used diminish over time. Against that, funds this year, in particular Graham Jones, by college (with the agreement of the donated to college may attract Gift Aid, our Secretary, and Paul Emery, our Society) to meet the cost of a number boosting the overall quantity of funds Treasurer, for taking on the lion’s share of ‘routine’ gifts which the Society has held. In addition, the funds will benefit of the administration of the Society’s become accustomed to making in recent from being professionally managed affairs and committee meetings. I look years, for example contributions toward alongside other funds managed by forward with optimism and enthusiasm the cost of JCR Freshers’ Week, the MCR college. The funds are only to be both to the forthcoming year. Matriculation Ball, the very successful expended on items that the Society Choral Awards Programme and intends to support in any case, and to Robert Seymour (Geography 1985) supporting Simpkin (version four). Clearly the more donations we can encourage Old Members to make, the greater the level of financial support college and the Society may provide, and it will also reduce the burden on the society’s

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t has been a busy year in the and access provision. We ran over 90 Communications Officer in June, and I Academic Office. We have enrolled events to give a taster of university was joined at the end of August by and inducted another cohort of fresh- and college life, and trained 76 Student Dr Kathryn Boast as STEM Outreach faced undergraduates, taken them Ambassadors (that’s 20% of our entire Officer (the first role of its kind at an through their first beginning of term undergraduate population) to act as role Oxford college, made possible by the collections, and seen them on their way models and inspire students to consider generosity of an alumna). Kathryn will to Prelims. We have supported another applying to Oxford. Our open days are be developing new initiatives to engage cohort of finalists through the challenge very much a team effort, with colleagues under-represented groups in science of a gruelling schedule of exams, and from the library, welfare, catering, and encourage them to apply for STEM wished them well as they celebrate housekeeping and accommodation (Science, Technology, Engineering and their individual successes with friends, teams joining us in OB Quad alongside Maths) degrees. family and tutors at graduation. And as student ambassadors and tutors. Nathan’s appointment allows us to for graduates, we’ve provided many of We also seized opportunities to increase our communications activities, them with the funds to enable them to increase our collaboration with the using the website, social and digital undertake their research in the field or University on targeted initiatives. media and print publications in attracting present their findings at conferences, When expansion of its flagship access prospective applicants – both in the UK giving them a taste of what is to come in programme, UNIQ, was announced in and internationally. We launched our the next stage of their academic careers. May, we were quick to offer support by new college website in June, and have Within the team, we have had our own quadrupling our accommodation offering since focussed on raising the college fair share of departures and arrivals. from 50 to 200 places from summer profile on social media. Nathan’s eye After four years as Admissions Officer, 2019 onwards. We have also pledged for a story and flair for videos has The College Lisa Hartwright left over the summer in funds to support the expansion of the raised our game. I’ve been assured order to focus full-time on her artisan Target Oxbridge scheme, which works that ‘crosspollination’ through likes, cake business. We are already missing specifically to support applications from shares and retweets helps to increase Office her good humour, patience, and ready black African and Caribbean students Hertford’s reach. If you’re not already Lynn Featherstone, Registrar supply of tray bake leftovers! Lisa was and students of mixed race with black a fan, you are warmly encouraged to & Director of Admissions swiftly followed by Dr Catherine Redford African and Caribbean heritage. join our 2,600 followers on Twitter, and who, during her maternity leave, secured We have a new access and outreach 5,400 on Instagram, to help showcase a permanent academic post at the team running our activities: Nathan Hertford and what it has to offer to the University of Worcester. Catherine was Stazicker arrived as Outreach & next generation of applicants. our second Outreach Fellow (a four-year career development post combining research and outreach), and the second holder of the post to leave prematurely to continue rising through the academic ranks. We’re delighted to introduce new members of the team. Caitlin Kennedy has joined us as Admissions Officer from Hertford’s International Programmes department. Dr Josephine Reynell, who for over a decade has served as Tutor for Visiting Students, has also come under the wing of the Academic Office as we continue to integrate more closely Over and above the bricks and mortar (and quite a our Visiting Students Programme with bit of stone!) that we use, the process and services our full-time undergraduates. In a year when undergraduate access that we run, our biggest operational asset is of remains a hot topic, we have increased course our staff. and diversified in our own outreach

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ow a veteran of a whole 18 months Sticking with scale as a theme, rest is invested and awaiting application N at Hertford I can no longer lay we continue to develop our estates to our major projects. In the meantime, any reasonable claim to being in a ambitions. By the time you will be reading thanks to the favourable rate achieved, honeymoon period. That said, I still this we should be well underway with our it is cost neutral to hold. seem to learn something new almost estates strategy. This encompasses not The scale of supporting operations every day. That just reflects the diverse only major capital projects, but also the (looking after 700 students, 550 and complex nature of our operations. day-to-day evolution and improvement bedrooms, over 200 bathrooms and These may sometimes give an of all facilities across all sites. We have so on…) means that we have a constant appearance of little change and steady already started to make changes. Most change across the workforce. Aside state, but in reality they are constantly will have noticed that OB quad has been from the seasonal shift that involves evolving and going through significant resurfaced. Students in various locations over 150 casual and part-time staff in volume and activity cycles throughout will have noticed their accommodation any one year, we do have change within the year. being refurbished. There’s new heat the permanent teams. This year will see Our International Programmes and lighting for the Chapel, and a long a number of new or altered roles, and business is a case in point. As well as list of small improvements. The strategy some people changes too. a full-time team of ten people, almost also envisages a number of larger One of those is the departure of Dr every operational area is enlisted scale improvements – from the library, Andrew Beaumont (Beau) as Home to support this activity over Easter, to the kitchens, the sports grounds, Bursar, after nine years in post. He is and especially summer. Hertford has remodelled lodge, reconfigured not going far however, as he will be the largest conference business of administrative offices, new social staying with us in the new part-time role any Oxford college, and utilises the spaces, and many more. This will of Estates Project Manager. At the same The Bursary majority of our resources for a third of require significant investment, and as time, he will be pursuing a qualification Jamie Clark, Bursar the year. Some statistics (most recent with all such programmes, will draw in Rural Estates Management, fulfilling year, but typical of the annual cycle) upon a mix of funding sources. A key a long-held ambition to develop his may help readers appreciate the scale: one will of course be money raised from career in that direction. In the meantime, 120 universities, across six countries, donations. It was therefore an enormous I am very pleased that we shall benefit engaged by our marketing efforts. 90 boost this year that Hertford received from his services for some while yet. I of these were visited in person during its largest single donation in modern would also like to acknowledge and three market tours, leading to over history, and that a significant part of this thank him for his long service to the 1,500 students in 65 separate groups (US$1 million) was specifically directed college as Home Bursar. hosted at Hertford over the year. towards supporting the extension and The other momentous change this This amounted to over 18,000 ‘bed redevelopment of the Library. year has clearly been saying goodbye nights’, 17,000 dinners served, required In anticipation of our estates work, to Kenny Lewis after 40 years of four kitchens in constant operation, this year the college undertook the dedication to the college – most recently involved 174 coach bookings, and largest financial transaction in its as SCR Butler. I shall not compete with provided vacation employment for 85 history. In Michaelmas 2017, we raised the other write-ups on this subject (see of our students. In total, the revenue £20 million through a private bond, the tribute in this issue), but couldn’t let generated was in excess of £3 million, on 30-year terms, at a very good fixed the opportunity slip by without adding which after costs delivered over £1.5 rate. Indeed, this rate was below that my own thanks to him, and to wish him million net contribution towards the achieved at a similar time by another, well in retirement. I should also add college’s academic activities. I would significantly larger institution, that I that at the time of writing we have just like not only to congratulate the would feel too indulgent to name appointed a successor. It is always hard International Programmes team on this directly here. A portion of the proceeds to follow any act with such a long and (record-breaking) result, but to say a big has been used to create a growth fund well-known presence, but I’m sure she thank you to everyone across college for eventual capital repayment, and the will rise to the challenge. who either works directly to support this effort, or who adapts and works around the inevitable element of disruption that is a necessary consequence of this scale of operation.

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s reported last year (Hertford that might be relevant – I’m so glad that A Curious Herbal with its complicated A College Magazine, no 97), we I did! Hertford has a few anatomy books publication history and hand-coloured have increasingly been able to marry from the sixteenth and seventeenth images, the careful authorial annotations the interests of Hertford students and centuries in the collection; being able to Cavendish’s Philosophical and the resources offered by our collection to look at the actual texts, rather than Physical Opinions, and a miscellany with of rare books. Here are the most recent reproductions of the illustrations, was a material from Swift, Pope and speeches examples: great way to put life into my research.’ from the House of Lords. All of these were wonderful to see and handle, as Kirsten Chapman, HT 2018 Esme Scott, MT 2017 examining the texts in their materiality Books consulted: ‘Last term I accessed the Hertford Library was of the utmost importance for this Thomas Willis, Cerebri Anatome rare book collection in order to find early paper, and instrumental in writing my (London, 1664) modern material that I could discuss final extended essay.’ Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang, sive in my ‘Texts in Motion’ option paper. Homo Sylvestris: or The Anatomy of Accessing rare books from the Bodleian Books consulted: a Pygmie (London, 1699) – Tyson is an can often be a daunting task with various Margaret Cavendish, Philosophical and alumnus of Magdalen Hall permissions and difficult cataloguing to Physical Opinions (London, 1663) William Cowper, The anatomy of humane negotiate, so speaking to Alice who Elizabeth Blackwell, A Curious Herbal bodies (Oxford, 1698) knew and could access the Hertford (London, 1739) ‘As part of my assessed work on Library collection more easily made Bound set of 1730s works including Shakespeare, I’ve been developing an the process a lot easier. Among other Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift and essay on the significance of brains in things, I looked at Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pope’s Epistle to a Lady. The Library Macbeth. I hadn’t even thought about Alice Roques, Librarian looking at early modern examples until Emma Smith, Fellow Alice mentioned to me that Hertford had a few texts in its rare books collection Librarian

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his has been a productive year in Some of these properties were in and, dare one say it, rather dull, but T the college archives, with some Oxfordshire, but others were further this volume records highly entertaining interesting discoveries amongst our afield in Essex and Berkshire, and the descriptions of the meetings, and gives existing collections and some exciting title deeds in particular will be invaluable a vivid picture of college life and the new accessions. We have continued to for external users researching the literary fashions of the period. maintain the physical preservation of history of these geographical areas. In We hope to make good use of them our collections through basic activities addition, the archives contain a series with students and in future exhibitions such as cleaning and dusting, checking of records relating to advowsons and we are very grateful to the generous temperature and humidity levels, and owned by the college; covering donor who enabled us to purchase this monitoring for insect activity – all Anglican livings held in counties from item. Our latest accession is a small important for the long-term preservation Staffordshire to the Isle of Wight. As but invaluable collection of personal of the collections. Packaging loose Hertford College still owns the right photographs and documents belonging items and replacing older packaging to present many of these livings, the to the late Dr George Pickard, who with new archival standard packaging records have an important current and studied Physics at Hertford between and boxes is an ongoing activity; and administrative use; but they are again 1932 and 1935, served with the RAF has also enabled us to start planning a very valuable resource for local Coastal Command during World for the future conservation needs of historians. These records deserve to War Two, and went on to become a the collection. Three volumes from the be made accessible to a wider field notable Professor of Oceanography Magdalen Hall Buttery Book series, of researchers and we would hope to in Canada. The collection contains Dr kept by Magdalen Hall Butler John make the full descriptions available Pickard’s memoirs and some wonderful Musgrave between 1816 and 1819, have online at some point in the future. photographs of his college rooms and The Archive been selected for conservation and This year has also seen some notable sports groups; and we are delighted Dr Lucy Rutherford, the first of these volumes has just been new accessions to the archives. Two to have received this donation from his Archivist sent to the conservator. Once they are volumes of minutes of the Shakespeare daughter, Dr Ann McAfee Pickard (see stabilised and fit for handling, we will be Society (covering the period 1902 to the memoir by Dr Pickard in this issue). Professor Christopher able to make these important sources 1914) were donated earlier in the year This last accession highlights the fact Tyerman, Fellow Archivist of college and social history available to by the family of a Hertford alumnus. that the volume of digital records coming researchers for the first time. These minutes record the meetings into the archives is increasing steadily Cataloguing our existing collections of a student-led society which met to every year. Dr Pickard’s records consist is a priority. Recent work on the college read and act out Shakespeare plays; exclusively of digital files in various property records has revealed some and are a very welcome addition to the formats, including JPEGs, PDFs and interesting material with good potential Shakespeare Society records which PowerPoint files – all of which require very for research and outreach through are already held in the college archives. different management from traditional exhibitions and social media. The In September, we were delighted to be paper and parchment records if they are property records consist of the usual able to purchase a volume of minutes to survive and remain accessible in the range of documents relating to works of the Hertford College Anthological long term. Our challenge for the coming to the college buildings and site from Club, dating from 1892 to 1893. This year is to plan for our future archive by 1874; and to properties owned by the student literary society, started around developing a strategy to manage our college on other Oxford sites. These 1879, met once a week to read from digital records, ensuring that the huge records are an important resource for and discuss a wide range of writers volume of digital records now being historians of Hertford College and the and literary works and, and on one generated is preserved unaltered, but local area. However, as the successor of occasion to write a chapter each of a still useable, in the years to come. Magdalen Hall, Hertford’s archives also novel. Amongst their favourite authors For news on our Archive appeal contain much earlier records relating were many of the Romantic poets, and college history, please go to www. to that institution’s properties, many of Thackeray, Dickens, Kipling and Lewis hertford.ox.ac.uk/and-more/library- which were left in trust to the hall in the Carroll. Minutes can often be brief archives/archives/archives-appeal. seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to produce an income for scholarships such as those set up by the Meeke and Lusby Bequests.

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lumnus John Donne’s highly housing poverty, racial discrimination, The concept of community has been A exposed statement that, ‘no man gender inequality, human trafficking, and cemented into our corporate life as is an island, entire of itself’, indicates a homelessness, through the media of several student leaders and preachers strong sense of being part of the whole, cake, paper chains, and clay modelling. have stepped up to lead ‘Compline by of living well in community. In Chapel this Our annual Shrove Tuesday pancake Candlelight’, providing college with a year, we have examined what it is to live race was won, for the first time, by a midweek oasis of serenity, or to preach well together as a diverse community, woman, Annie Ault (Geography 2015), the ‘Word for the Week’, chosen by their yet to retain our individuality. with a number of worthy runners-up. Our fellow students at Eucharist. These have Our preaching theme for Michaelmas annual concert, Northern Lights, was a ranged from the profound (tribulation), to focused on ‘Human Being – Aspects great success, showcasing Nordic music the comical (steak). of Our Existence’. Our guest speakers to well over 150 guests at the Wesley Special thanks, as ever, goes to looked at humans as scientific beings Memorial Chapel. the chapel committee for its wisdom (biochemist Professor Rob Gilbert), In Trinity term, we took a closer look at and support. I am particularly grateful narrative beings (psychologist Dr Joss the individual rather than the community, to Professor Claire Vallance for her Bryan), political beings (Revd Graham with the theme ‘Subject Subjective – wisdom and encouragement as chair Stevenson), and whole beings (Revd me, my subject, and where God might of the committee. I also thank Hannah Ali Hogger, mental health nurse). A fit in’. Several guest speakers, including Towndrow and Charlotte Corderoy (who new format of the Staff, Fellows, and a number of Hertfordians (Very Revd joined us this year) for their hard work as Remaining Students Carol Service Jeffrey John (Modern Languages 1971), Organ Scholars, and to the choir. Finally, was trialled, running before the Staff Sir Martin Donnelly (Academic Visitor), I thank our chapel welcome assistants, Christmas Lunch for extra festive spirit. and Dr Alan Day (Emeritus Fellow)) Torrance Chen and Osman Rokni, for The Chapel The annual MacBride sermon was shared their enthusiasm on subjects their help in ensuring everyone in Chapel Mia Smith, Chaplain delivered with great enthusiasm by as diverse as leadership, maths, and is welcomed and able to participate. former Chaplain General to the British clothes. One of the talks even involved Together with the countless number of Army, Jonathan Woodhouse, and the Montezuma’s chocolate buttons. Our people who have been part of the Chapel customary Madeira and cake were a HARTfest Preacher was Aidan Hart, in any way this year, you are all a piece of welcome treat on a snowy January renowned icon painter, and Chapel was the continent, a part of the main that is the morning. Hilary term continued with again used as a display space for the life of the Chapel. Without you both I, and the theme ‘Equals: Global Inequalities exhibition ‘This Girl Can’. the college, would be the less. & Our response’. We were challenged by broadcaster Professor Robert Beckford, ‘When faced with injustice, how are you going to respond?’, as he spoke powerfully on issues faced by young black men in the UK. Dr Christine Edwards gave an inspiring presentation of her work in Bangladesh on obstetric fistulae, and Ms Gaby Doherty shared her personal experience of the Grenfell Tower disaster as a member of the North Kensington community. We welcomed back alumnus The Right Reverend Graham Kings (Theology 1973), who unpacked the story of Moses and The concept of community has been cemented Miriam using a beautiful painting by into our corporate life as several student leaders Silvia Dimitrova, the artist who painted and preachers have stepped up to lead ‘Compline the icon in the chapel in memory of Michael Chantry. Equality Week prayer by Candlelight’, providing college with a midweek stations focused on ‘Level Playing Field’, oasis of serenit encouraging engagement with issues of

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he year started with drama – and it for a little longer… and longer still. Would That sensitive subject aside, there Development T was all my fault. it be handy to have the marquee for were several highlights to Hertford’s Julia Thaxton, Director of September 2017 was one of our the Freshers Welcome Day? And the year in 2017-18. As has been reported in busiest months. As well as a Gaudy for Science Festival was holding a carnival the Newsletter, we hosted a weeklong Development 1983, ’84 and ’85, there was a celebratory the following week – would they like to visit from Kensington Aldridge Academy day of talks and networking sessions to get involved, too? Three days became a when their school building was out of celebrate 20 years of Management at week, then two weeks. bounds following the Grenfell Tower Hertford. On top of that, 70 Law alumni And so inevitably the grass underneath fire. Their headmaster is a friend, so he came to listen to the main players in the the marquee met an unhappy end. As called to see if I could persuade Hertford Gina Miller case – David Pannick (1974) the year progressed, it turned from sickly to help. I remember saying to him on the and Jack Williams (2013) for the claimant, green to yellow to brown. Even by early phone: it’s not a question of persuasion as well as Rowena Collins-Rice (1978) for summer there were still bald patches. – Hertford will be willing to help, we the Government – as they revisited the Every visitor to OB Quad commented just have to work out if it is logistically case under the expert eye of Hertford’s on the unsightly view and every time I possible. They needed to accommodate Law tutor (and alumna), Professor Alison saw Alison, Hertford’s Gardener, I was 200 sixth formers and 22 teachers Young (1993). full of defensive excuses. It wasn’t safe for a week so they could continue to With all this activity, it seemed sensible to mention ‘the M word’ in my presence. teach their normal curriculum lessons to put up a marquee in OB Quad to gain Thankfully, the pain eased as the grass without too much disruption. Thankfully, some extra space. And since Hertford grew back to a lush green towards the Hertford’s housekeeping and catering likes to get value for money, once we end of June. No more marquees for a teams are resourceful and used to had the quote for the marquee, we few years I think… working their way around a problem. asked how much it would be to extend

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for the renovation of the library. It is the college’s first ‘Kennyversary’: 40 Looking at the year as a whole, one an exciting time to be giving back to years since Kenny Lewis, our SCR Butler, of the recurring themes is how much Hertford! joined Hertford on 3 July 1978. Kenny has we can achieve by working together. The other big news of the Hertford’s alumni community also been a much-loved figure ever since, not We managed to pull a rabbit out of supported us in other ways, and over only as butler but also as star player in the hat to do our bit after the Grenfell year was the college’s largest the course of the year, we attended the college football team throughout the Tower disaster; our $2 million donor ever donation in modern some fantastic events. In February, 1980s. His picture now hangs in the SCR, showed that his gift could be used times: a gift of $2 million William Hancock (Jurisprudence 1989) a portrait commissioned from BP Portrait to encourage others to give; our welcomed us at Collyer Bristow for Award winner Benjamin Sullivan, and alumni have supported us by making from a former graduate a drinks event for aspiring lawyers we have also established a fund in his donations and hosting events for student in the US. wanting to meet alumni lawyers name. The Kenny Lewis fund will support others; Kenny has spent his 40 years established in their field. In June, Holly Hertford’s commitment to giving essential at Hertford supporting all aspects of Foster (Archaeology & Anthropology work experience and employment college life, from the football team to 2007) and Fiona Butterfield (Physics opportunities to young people from the alumni reunions. Maybe it’s trite, but it 2007) hosted us at Deloitte Digital for a local community, as well as training and is also true – we work better when we speed mentoring event for students and development opportunities for college work as a team. As long as there are no Once we knew we could accommodate young alumni. And overseas too, Dennis staff, particularly in catering teams, to marquees involved. half the group at Hertford (and had Bonney (Jurisprudence 1951) arranged enhance their careers (see also the persuaded Queens College to come a San Francisco event at Hotel Rex for tribute in this issue). on board for the other half) we just alumni and friends. needed classrooms for lessons. Help We are also grateful to alumnus and came from a Hertford alumna, Heather Honorary Fellow Paul Manduca (Modern Viles (1981), who is Head of Department Languages 1970) who arranged places at Oxford’s School of Geography, and for Hertford cyclists on the Prudential a former Hertford employee, Louise Ride London. 13 alumni took up the Turner, who runs conference business challenge and cycled through rain at Trinity College. The students had an and high winds to raise £5,500 for the unforgettable week, and their teachers college’s student support fund. Our star found the historic surroundings gave fundraisers were Tim Dean (Economics new energy to their classes. For me, it & Management 2005) and Cathryn was an extraordinary opportunity to give Teverson (Wadham, 2005) who raised back in a very direct way – and to enjoy £2,500 between them. Hertford’s ability to make the seemingly Back at Hertford, we said thank you impossible possible for these children. to our donors with the Christmas Drinks The other big news of the year was event, complete with mince pies, mulled the college’s largest ever donation in wine and carols in chapel, and also to modern times: a gift of $2 million from our legacy donors with a summer wine- a former graduate student in the US. tasting event, courtesy of wine guide and Half of this donation will form a student Hertford alumnus Jason Millar (English support fund, contributing towards 2003). January saw the second gaudy of Hertford scholarships and bursaries. the year, for 1996 and 1997, and February The other half has been set aside as brought a reunion for Geographers and matching funds for gifts from young two lunches for Freshers’ families. We alumni and telethon donations, which also held our first weekend festival, with will be matched five-fold, and gifts over alumni speakers and panels alongside £50,000, which will be matched one- family entertainment in OB Quad (no Looking at the year as a whole, one of the to-one. Alumni can give to any area of marquees…). the college to release the funds, and as The year end coincided with an event recurring themes is how much we can achieve matching funds are released by these that will be noteworthy for a huge number by working together. donations they will form a starting point of alumni. On 3 July 2018, we celebrated

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 70 Subjects & Research HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Subjects & Research 71 Subjects and BIOCHEMISTRY BIOLOGY research The most important development in Biochemistry this year has been the appointment of our second tutor and fellow – Professor Petros Ligoxygakis.

as Academic Visitor, and in his speech reflected on the importance of evidence- based policy-making (as opposed to the more frightening policy-based evidence- making!). The evening began with another in our highly successful series of career discussions with recent alumni – Another busy year in Biochemistry. this year, fittingly, we focused on public It has been a momentous year for We’ve had a crop of excellent results, service. Biology, both in Hertford and more with all three leavers thinking of research The most important development in broadly in Oxford. To take these in careers. Matthew Lloyd has started Biochemistry this year has been the reverse order, a large part of this year his PhD already, while Charith Perera appointment of our second tutor and continued to be dominated by the and Charles Cooper are applying now, fellow – Professor Petros Ligoxygakis. sudden closure in February last year of having been late converts to research Petros works on innate immunity, using the Tinbergen Building, the home for during their fourth year Part II projects. the fruit fly Drospohila melanogaster as the Zoology department for nearly 50 It just goes to show how important our a model organism, and he has a broad years. Martin was very much involved final year projects are for whetting the teaching portfolio that will synergise in resolving the ‘estates’ (i.e. buildings) appetites of the next generation of productively with my own. Our first action problems this caused. The University scientists – and, goodness me, how our is the increase the number of biochemists sports ground in Mansfield Road has society needs trained scientists at all we admit from four to six, so this is a been pressed into service with two levels, from government and policy, to really important time for Biochemistry. new temporary buildings located on the public service to schools, and beyond. Together with the appointment of the site medium-term: a large single-storey I instigated a new ‘pizza evening’ second fellow in Biology which you will building containing two new teaching this year for the Finalists to present no doubt read about elsewhere on these laboratories (one for Biology and one their projects to the rest of the Hertford pages, this strengthens our offering for Biochemistry) and an even larger, Biochemists – it was such a positive and and our representation in Life Sciences two-storey research and administration inspiring evening, and I was delighted hugely. It’s an important moment. building which now houses the majority at the level of engagement from all of Finally, I continue to run around like a of the Department of Zoology. our students from the first year up. At headless chicken, but still enjoy finding Martin played a major role in the the Darwin Dinner (held in March 2018, time to spend with our undergraduates, design of this building (even if his group jointly with the Biologists and Human working out what the important is remaining in the Medawar Building Scientists), we welcomed Sir Martin questions are. and will not be based in the new one!). Donnelly (former Permanent Secretary These buildings are now completed and of the Department for International Professor Alison Woollard occupied and have provided excellent Trade) as our after-dinner speaker. accommodation – in many ways Martin is spending some time in Hertford superior to that which was available in

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CHEMISTRY In other news, Claire Vallance has co- founded a new spin-out company, Oxford High-Q, which will use optical micro-cavity technology developed within Oxford’s departments of Chemistry and Materials to build a new generation of chemical and nanoparticle sensors. Over the summer, she has also started a three-year term as President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which she is doing her best to juggle with her ‘day jobs’ in the Department of Chemistry and Hertford. Hertford’s Chemistry students have been working and playing hard, and taking an active role in all aspects of college life. Our new freshers are settling The new Zoology Research and Administration Building (ZRAB) in in well, and the fourth years are getting construction. The completed single-storey teaching laboratories building can used to the rather different pace of life be seen in the background. Now occupied, these buildings, together with and science in a research laboratory the University Club, part of which has been given over to Zoology, they form as they embark on their Part II research the ‘Zoology Quad’ (as Martin likes to call it!). If you have not seen them and are in the area, do pop by Mansfield Road to have a look. With the beginning of the 2018-19 projects. academic year, Hertford welcomes Within the Chemistry Department, the a new tutorial fellow in Organic new integrated undergraduate practical Chemistry to the fold: Dr Fernanda course is being launched this year in a Duarte comes to Hertford from the new custom-built facility adjoining the the ageing Tinbergen Building. It has a four-year MBiol option will be available University of Edinburgh. Fernanda is University Club sports field on Mansfield been amazing to see how quickly these to students and the new course will start a computational chemist who uses Rd. While a fair few setbacks over the ‘modular buildings’ were constructed in 2019, so we have just taken the last computational methods to understand summer – including building delays, fires, and the high standard of their finish. cohort of students on the exclusively a variety of fundamental problems in floods, and plagues of locusts – have In the meantime, the University has three-year BA degree. (bio)organic chemistry, and to help to required the new course to be introduced decided that once the asbestos strip of There have been major changes interpret experimental data from the in stages over the first two years, our the old Tinbergen Building is complete, within Hertford too, with the appointment fields of organic chemistry, catalysis, undergraduates are greatly enjoying the it will be demolished and a new of Professor Geraldine Wright as a and supramolecular chemistry. She new state-of-the-art laboratory facilities home for Biology, Zoology and Plant second tutorial fellow in Biology, making will be taking over teaching in Organic that the new building provides. Sciences, Experimental Psychology and Biology in Hertford a two-fellow subject Chemistry from Sarah Jenkinson in Biochemistry teaching laboratories will for the first time. Jeri is a Hertford stages over the next couple of years. OK, I was joking about the plagues of be built in its place. In the long-term this graduate (1994), having completed We are very pleased to have Sarah locusts… will provide an exciting new home for her DPhil in Hertford. She is an expert amongst our ranks for a little longer Biological Sciences in Oxford. in bee neurology and behaviour and during the transition. Professor Claire Vallance Despite the disruption caused by complements the wider Biology and the Tinbergen closure, a review of Biochemistry teaching teams superbly. the Biological Sciences course was Hertford now has Fellows or Stipendiary undertaken, and it has been decided Lecturers covering most of the course to replace the current three-year BA content. Our two-Fellow status will be course with a four-year Master in Biology temporarily short-lived, however, as (MBiol) course. This is another exciting Martin will depart for a year in March Within the Chemistry Department, the new integrated development, which will, in particular, 2019 to be Senior Proctor in the undergraduate practical course is being launched this enable students to undertake longer University. research projects in their final year. It is year in a new custom-built facility envisaged that both a three-year BA and Professor Martin Maiden

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COMPUTER SCIENCE although there is a long, long way to go of horror on my face as I realised I was Ladybird series. It was a tremendous As Head of the Department of Computer before we get a new building confirmed, about to give evidence to the Lords with pleasure to actually have the printed Science, probably my main activity this with an estimated build cost in the range hands covered in black ink… volume in my hands, and I gave lectures academic year was obtaining a £10 of £120-140 million. It was a good year for research, with to accompany the book at the Oxford million pledge to a new building to The continuing high profile of AI led articles published in the leading game Literary Festival in March 2018, the house the Department of Computer me to the House of Lords twice this year, theory journal Games and Economic Science Museum ‘Lates’ lecture series Science, which we hope will be on first giving verbal evidence in the first Behaviour, and my first article (and in March 2018, and the Henley Literary the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. It session of the House of Lords Select possibly only article) in Nature. The latter Festival in September 2018. took two years of discussions with a Committee on Artificial Intelligence in is particularly exciting because Nature For the college, I continued in my private donor to get to the point of October 2017, and then giving verbal does not publish much computer science role as Steward of the SCR, and we commitment, and the pledge is the evidence to the House of Lords Select research. The paper in question was were delighted to move into newly largest ever donation to a department Committee on science and technology in on the topic of social network analysis. refurbished Upper SCR and Vaughan in the Mathematical, Physical, and Life March 2018. You can watch my evidence A key question in this area is whether Williams Room at the start of MT2017. Sciences Division. It was tremendously to the House of Lords AI committee it is possible to identify the leaders of I was tremendously pleased with the rewarding to have this confirmed, online at https://goo.gl/sxFVf3. A pen the network – the ones with the most refurbishment, and in particular it has and it probably represents my main broke in my pocket just as we entered influence – just by looking at the network been wonderful to see the newly achievement as Head of Department, the room, so feel free to enjoy the look structure (i.e. who has links with who). A revamped Vaughan Williams room long list of ‘centrality measures’ have come into regular use. Having done been developed which aim to do this. three years as Steward, I stepped down In our work, we turned this question on from this role at the end of Trinity term its head. We asked ourselves whether it 2018, handing over to Oliver Noble would be possible to avoid detection in Wood. I also completed my sixth year a network, under the assumption that we as part of the Dean of Degrees team, knew people were using such metrics. and so handed on this role at the start We showed that there were some of Michaelmas term 2018. simple techniques that could be used This was my sixth full year at to this end, and since we are computer Oxford, and I was pleased to confirm scientists, we investigated algorithms to a sabbatical year for 2018-19. I plan to achieve such evasion. write some grant proposals, and have Another writing project was the some book projects in the pipeline. publication of my popular science Watch this space! introduction to AI, called Artificial Intelligence and published in the iconic Professor Michael Wooldridge

It was a good year for research, with articles published in the leading game theory journal Games and Economic Behaviour, and my first article (and possibly only article) in Nature.

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ECONOMICS Economics in Oxford, but his research ENGLISH texts. Professor Emma Smith has been on the economics of altruism is no less working on a book based on her important; he presented this year at the podcast lectures, This Is Shakespeare, Royal Economic Society conference to be published in 2019. She has also in Sussex and at the Global Priorities been acting as the outreach and schools Institute here in Oxford. Zac, meanwhile, coordinator for the English faculty, and has successfully defended his DPhil urges any Hertfordian English teachers and leaves Oxford to become a lecturer to get in touch to hear about our events at Monash University, in his home city and information. of Melbourne, Australia. His work in macroeconomics, which informed his Professor Emma Smith teaching within the college, will continue from there. And Jerome Simons continues his DPhil at Nuffield College. GEOGRAPHY My own work on the interface between economic theory and modern (‘tropical’) mathematics continues to excite interest – I was very lucky to manage a four- week stay in the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden, as well as presenting at various workshops across the year. I 2017-18 has been my first year as Roger hope to spend much more time with English is in good heart at Hertford, and Van Noorden Fellow in Economics environmental economics in the future, we’re looking forward to our subject – quite a whirlwind. Arriving with me and have been developing potential reunion in autumn 2018. We have were 18 freshers taking either PPE or collaborations across the university. celebrated strong exam results from Economics & Management, six of whom I am also developing a third year Finalists, aided by some interesting went on to get distinctions in Prelims, undergraduate course in the subject. dissertation work on topics from and indeed one E&M getting the highest We look forward to the coming year, medieval manuscripts to contemporary mark in the year in every paper. They when Arhat Virdi, known for his teaching memoir to classical reception. Our first have diverse outside interests, from of management, also joins our teaching years also did very well and we look German politics to literary start-ups. team. But the biggest news for 2017-18 forward to great things from them over Our Finalists also did well, and go on to is the appointment of our second tutorial the course of their degrees. We’ve been careers in the civil service, think tanks, fellow, Dr Teodora Boneva. She joins us able to increase the number of graduate teaching, and data science. for 2018-19 from UCL, and is a specialist students reading for English masters As for teaching within the college, in the economics of inequality, using and doctoral degrees and have enjoyed Hertford Geography has had another our strong team consisted of Dr large-scale survey techniques. We look following them and their successes. busy and successful year, for tutors Richard Povey, Zac Gross and Jerome forward to working together. As for the tutors, Professor Charlotte and students alike, and the college Simons, as well as myself. Richard is Brewer has been on leave after a four- Geography community maintains its well-known as one of the best tutors in Professor Elizabeth Baldwin year term as Senior Tutor, re-vamping healthy balance between academic her website Examining the OED, soon ambition and social vibrancy. to be relaunched, and developing a new We are very pleased to introduce Dr project comparing attitudes towards Louise Slater as the new Tutorial Fellow language and correct (or ‘correct’) in Physical Geography, who joins us from usage in France and the UK. Dr David Loughborough University and Queen Dwan has just published his book Mary University of London. Louise’s Liberty, Equality & Humbug: Orwell’s research focuses on understanding Political Ideals (OUP, 2018). Dr Ayoush and predicting changes in fluvial Lazikani, our lecturer in Old and Middle systems and floods in the context of English, has been researching into the contemporary shifts in both climate and history of emotions in early medieval land cover. She is very welcome as the

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 78 Subjects & Research HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Subjects & Research 79 newest member of our teaching team. Gibbs Proxime Accessit for her overall HISTORY Ingrid Rembold published Dr Jamie Lorimer has spent much of average mark on written exam papers. her monograph, Conquest and 2018 on a British Academy Fellowship, Three dissertations by Hertford Christianization: Saxony and the which has allowed him to write a book geographers have also been nominated Carolingian World, 772-888, with on rewilding. The book describes for external prizes. Kate Gardiner’s Cambridge University Press. Having a probiotic turn in healthcare and dissertation was highly commended completed her Junior Research environmental management, exploring for the Developing Areas Research Fellowship at Hertford, she has now the reintroduction of animals both inside Group undergraduate dissertation prize; taken up a new post as Lecturer in and outside of the human body. Jamie Kate Colley’s dissertation has been Medieval History at the University has been supported by Bharath Ganesh, nominated for the Alfred Steers Essay of Manchester. We thank Ingrid for who is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Prize; and Annabel Ault’s dissertation has her support of College teaching and Institute and has been covering some of been nominated for the Geographies of admissions and wish her the very best in his tutorials. Dr Janet Banfield is pursuing Health and Wellbeing Research Group her new role. her research into the geographies of undergraduate dissertation prize. puppets and puppetry as far as her As ever, the social vibrancy of Hertford Professor David Hopkin teaching commitments allow. Her room Geography is supported by an active at college is increasingly populated by Gilbert’s Society and this year saw the freakish companions, who thankfully do welcome return of the Gilbert’s Book, LAW not try to participate in tutorials. which had taken a brief sabbatical of its In 2018 Professor David Thomas, own the year before. This year, to unite Professorial Fellow in Geography, the twin pillars of social vibrancy and commenced his period as chair of the academic ambition we held a ‘handover’ Christopher Tyerman has just finished a UK Research Excellence Framework social event at the end of Trinity to allow book for Yale University Press, The World (REF) Geography and Environmental each year group to pass on to their of the Crusades: An Illustrated Guide, to Studies panel. After serving on the panel successors any tips and advice on how be published in 2019. During the year he for the last two assessments, in 2008 to navigate most effectively the year has also given papers in London, Stanford and 2014, being appointed chair reflects ahead. The incoming Freshers won’t miss and Berkeley on the scope, nature and the community’s trust in his ability to out as the flip charts have been typed up organisation of political agency employed oversee a fair and equitable assessment for circulation once they have settled in. by commoners on crusade. of the quality of UK geography. He also If deemed useful, this could be a regular David Hopkin co-edited a book with continues to work as Principal Investigator way to nurture the academic ambition Routledge entitled Rhythms of Revolt on various desert research projects that and social vibrancy that continue to which examines how memories of early embrace long-term environmental and characterise Hertford Geography and modern revolts were passed on through climate change detection and impacts help to sustain its success. oral culture, and above all through song. and human interactions. He had articles published in Past & Students, too, have been as Dr Jamie Lorimer Present and The Journal of Social History. productive and successful as ever this He’s been talking about the history of year, continuing to play a strong role in lacemakers in Reading, Nottingham, ‘All change’ has been the theme for all aspects of the college by contributing Glasgow, Cambridge… But these days Law at Hertford over the last year. In to sporting life, student welfare and the most of his time is taken up with being this column last year in 2017, Professor effective running of the bar, among other Senior Tutor of the College. Alison Young was paying tribute to Prof things. Academically, 2018 produced Students, too, have been as This year Giora Sternberg began Alan Bogg, who had recently left to take another very pleasing set of results up a Chair as Professor of Labour Law productive and successful researching the second half of his with four Firsts at Finals, and we are monograph on the power of writing in at Bristol. Now we find ourselves doing delighted to congratulate several prize as ever this year, continuing Ancien Régime France. This included Professor Young the same service; at winners. Two students were awarded to play a strong role in all extensive work in the notarial archives the end of Michaelmas 2017, she left departmental prizes: Kate Colley in Paris, facilitated by a John Fell Fund Hertford also to take up a Chair as the Sir received the H.O. Beckit Prize for the aspects of the college by award. He also completed the revisions David Williams Professor of Public Law at best physical geography dissertation; contributing to sporting life of an article forthcoming in The English Cambridge. Kate Gardiner was awarded the C.D.D. Historical Review. Professor Young, having recently

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Together, we went to Roger to her admirable ability to deal with Clement was appointed a Fellow Van Noorden’s tiny kitchen, next to pastoral issues as they arose, always and College Lecturer at Trinity Hall, his rooms, to see if we could find one. ready with a cup of tea in her room Cambridge, and Ms Leah Trueblood The kitchen had been largely unused for whomever needed it. The college has taken up a Stipendiary Lectureship since Roger had married and stopped wishes Alison well in her new role. (See at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. As part of living in college many years earlier. We the longer tribute in this issue.) the temporary arrangements for Law failed to find a corkscrew, but did find With two Law Fellows departing teaching at Hertford, Ms Laura Rodés a cupboard of various faded tins and Hertford within a term of each other, Saldaña, who is about to complete her packets, of some vintage. One item was arrangements for the subject in 2017- PhD at Leicester, has been appointed to a 340g tin of Sainsbury’s own brand 2018 have been on a temporary footing. a one-year Stipendiary Lectureship to custard powder, with a sell-by date of I was appointed to a two-year Career cover private law subjects. 22 February 1977. ‘Goodness! exclaimed Development Fellowship commencing While Law at Hertford is in a state Nigel, ‘this is the custard powder that in October 2018, taking over of flux, our students have continued survived Thatcherism!’ We thought that Professor Young’s Hertford teaching in to excel. One of our students received the object – and the fact that it had Constitutional Law and Administrative the highest mark awarded for Criminal One of the highlights of the past year for been stored for 21 years – perfectly Law (my research is in the related field Law in March’s Law Moderations Management has to be the Management reflected Roger’s gift for austerity, and of statutory interpretation) and holding examinations; another received a Day hosted at the college in September his reluctance to throw things away (as the fort as Senior Law tutor pending Distinction overall. One of our Finalists 2017. About 100 of my former students evidenced, of course, by the state of his the appointment of a new Fellow on a was awarded a First, while our sole – and other interested folk – came office). We both loved Roger dearly, and permanent basis. I am happy to report Magister Juris student was proxime back one Saturday to celebrate our we thought this was a wonderful find. that Dr Kate Greasley has since been accessit in that degree. approximate 21 years (like everything, it I decided to steal the custard powder, appointed to what was effectively Alumni involvement with Law at depends how you count) of the MBA and and held it as a memento of Roger ever Professor Bogg’s post, and the college Hertford remains strong. Thanks are due the BA in Economics and Management since. I don’t believe he ever knew it will recruit a permanent Fellow to take to William Hancock (1989) for hosting a at Hertford, and we had a wonderful day. had gone. At the time of his retirement, over from Professor Young/myself at the drinks event at Collyer Bristow’s London The day was themed ‘The Future’ and I wondered about presenting it back to beginning of the 2019-2020 academic offices in February 2018. Proceeds from involved a series of brilliant talks on the him, but somehow the moment never year. the evening went towards the Roy Stuart themes of the future of finance, work and came. And then, alas, he left us. Dr Kate Greasley commenced as Fellowship; Dr Greasley is the inaugural technology from distinguished alums Hertford’s new tutorial Fellow in Law Roy Stuart Fellow, named after the and current fellows. The day concluded At the reunion event I auctioned off at the beginning of August 2018. former Hertford Law Fellow who retired with a celebration dinner, at which I the custard powder, and it raised £1,500 She joins us from University College, in 2003. A welcome from Principal Will relayed the following anecdote which for college funds. As an exercise, one London, where she was a Lecturer, Hutton was followed by remarks by Mr concerns the legendary Roger Van can calculate the ROI from the initial but her previous academic role and Michael Fordham QC (1983) about Dr Noorden, former Economics Fellow, and 20p outlay in 1977... by that measure, it her undergraduate and postgraduate Stuart and his influence on hundreds of one of the prime movers in establishing turns out to be Roger’s most effective studies were all undertaken in Oxford. Hertford students. Management as a subject at the college investment for the college! It has now Dr Greasley will teach Criminal Law The Law tutors look forward to other and the broader University. Roger was been generously re-donated with the and Jurisprudence for Hertford in alumni events throughout the coming for many years Investment Bursar, and proviso it be displayed in perpetuity addition to Medical Law and Ethics and year, as well as to attempting to emulate is correctly credited with transforming (although to be honest we’ve yet to work other teaching for the Faculty of Law. the sterling examples set by Professors Hertford’s finances through a mixture out exactly where). Her research is on legal and moral Bogg and Young in all aspects of their of investment genius and rigorous philosophy in general, with a special work and contributions to Hertford. parsimony. Dr Steve New interest in reproductive law and ethics. The changes have also been rung Dr Benedict Coxon

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MATHEMATICS former students who recalled both Dr Ferrar and sconcing in its original form. Dr Ferrar seems to have been a popular fellow in the 1950s, even with some sparkle (by the standards of the time), and worthy of the annual mathematics dinner named in his honour. Reading about sconcing in the 1950s though, as described by our former students and also John Carey in his autobiography, I can’t help feeling that Oxford has become a more civilised place (probably through the mixing of colleges in the 1970s). [For more on sconcing, and Dr Ferrar, see the memoirs of George Pickard in this issue.] On the research front, I attended some talks at a conference in Oxford a few weeks ago which will live long in my mind. The highest prize in Mathematics is the Fields Medal and the most famous It feels like it has been quite a quiet year living mathematician is Andrew Wiles. in Mathematics at Hertford. Our students Wiles gave the opening lecture of the have been beavering away securing day, followed by one Fields medalist good results in their examinations, and then another. The next lecturer indeed even outstanding ones amongst was not a Fields medalist, so I skipped some our first and second years from that to take my dog for a walk – my overseas (Germany, Romania and the standards were getting quite high. The USA). Two greatly loved lecturers who final lecturer also had a Fields medal, have both served the college well for a but by that time it was beginning to number of years will sadly be leaving. feel like quite an ordinary achievement. Dr Shirley Palmer has been our lecturer The opening speaker the next morning in Applied Mathematics for four years, of course had a Fields medal. For the but has recently found her other next and final lecture of the conference commitments, family and business, have another Fields medalist had been expanded and has decided to take a lined up, but had had an accident and break from teaching. Mark van Loon has was unable to attend. By good fortune taught across the board, covering many yet another Fields medalist was to topics in Pure and Applied Mathematics hand to stand in, and the honour of as well as Statistics, but now needs the conference was saved. My point to clear the decks to write up his being that no other place could attract doctorate. Their contribution to Hertford such a line-up, and Oxford these days Mathematics has been immense. has become unrivalled as a centre of Following my description of the Ferrar mathematical learning. Dinner and sconcing in this column last year, I was delighted to hear from two Professor Alan Lauder

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MEDICINE fortunate this year to have two inspiring of inflammation we aim to identify clinicians talk with our students. Debbie new pathways that can be targeted to Hay (1996) is a consultant haematologist develop novel anti-inflammatory drugs. at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Roba Work from my laboratory has been Hertford’s small, yet quality, Khundar (2000) a plastic surgeon. published in peer-reviewed journals The friendships and support networks including The Journal of Clinical contingent of musicians engendered by our VW dinners Investigation, Frontiers in Immunology, had a productive year. continue beyond our students’ time at Methods in Molecular Biology, Interface Hertford. This was well illustrated by Focus, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, a Sunday afternoon tea reunion in my Nature Communications and American college room for students matriculating Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care collecting habits [See also the separate in 2011 who were six months into their Medicine. My research is funded by report above]. We aim to welcome placements as junior doctors in Swindon, grants from the British Heart Foundation three musicians a year who, as well as Oxford and London. We wish Will and OxStem Immuno. completing their academic work, are Dace, Aneesha Chauhan, Rebecca Li, great contributors to the musical life of the Masanori Watanabe and Natalia Cotton Professor David Greaves college and University. It was good to see every success in their careers and look that, of our number, one undergraduate forward to seeing them back in Hertford was the college’s Music Society President as future VW dinner speakers. MUSIC while one was President of the Faculty’s A further example of the continuing Joint Consultative Committee, proving legacy of VW dinners was provided by that not all musicians see it as their The academic year 2017-2018 was again Max Brodermann’s second day of his vocation to float above the minutiae of busy for Hertford medical students in FY1 placement at University College committee work! Our two organ scholars years one to three, Pre-clinical Medicine Hospital where he was taken to the pub continue to lead the musical worship and years four to six, Clinical School. by Hertford medical alumnae Keziah in chapel diligently and with increasing Careers in Medicine can take our Austen (2007) a rheumatology trainee dividends in quality. For myself, 2017/18 students in many different directions. and Liz Platt (2010) starting GP training. In afforded the opportunity to complete (with This year, Nic Patni (2012) took two years his final year of clinical school Max was Dr Joe Davies of LMH) the proceedings out of Oxford Clinical School to study at awarded a University OxTalent award of our co-organised conference on Sciences Po in Paris. Nic writes, ‘I have for developing innovative e-learning ‘Analytical and Critical Reflections on been accepted for a two-year Masters materials in haematology while working Music of the Long Eighteenth-century’ in in Public Policy focusing specifically on in Debbie Hay’s department. honour of Professor Susan Wollenberg. social policy which covers health and My laboratory in the Sir William Dunn I was also much-involved with my work social care, pensions, education, adjusting School of Pathology continues to study for the Associated Board of the Royal to demographic changes, etc. Ultimately I inflammation, which is the normal Schools of Music which permitted me to hope to combine complementary careers response of all tissues to injury and meet musicians across the country who in Medicine and Health Policy.’ We wish infection. By studying the basic biology are developing their musical gifts. In Nic every success in Paris and look addition, I was delighted to welcome Dr forward to seeing him back in Hertford in Tom Czepiel as a fellow College Lecturer summer 2020. Hertford’s small, yet quality, contingent of to assist in the teaching of music-history A highlight of the academic year in musicians had a productive year. Without topics before 1750. Tom is an established Medicine is our twice-yearly VW dinners. a Fellow in the subject, I have had the tutor who has taught for a number of Miles Vaughan Williams set up these The friendships and support joy of leading Music as its organising colleges and his expertise in sixteenth- dinners soon after his retirement as an tutor since 2009 and every year brings a century court music is highly valued. It opportunity for pre-clinical and clinical networks engendered by student cohort with a varied and dynamic was especially good to welcome him medical students to meet up and enjoy our VW dinners continue interest in the subject. Illustrative of (back), as Hertford was his alma mater for each other’s company. For each dinner, this richness are the undergraduate his doctoral studies. we invite back a Hertford graduate to talk beyond our students’ time dissertations which in 2017/18 included about their time as a student and talk about at Hertford. titles on Monteverdi’s ‘political’ operas Dr Benjamin Skipp their careers in Medicine. We were very and a critique of Stefan Zweig’s music

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ORIENTAL STUDIES the period, enriched with a wealth of PHYSICS morphological and syntactic information, and linked to an Old Japanese-English dictionary which we are constructing Pat Roche completed his term as part of the corpus. The ONCOJ is a long-standing international collaborative as President of the Council project of more than seven years. It of the European Southern was therefore a major milestone that in Observatory at the end of late March 2018 we were finally able to publish the full corpus online at http:// 2017 and so was expecting to oncoj.ninjal.ac.jp/. This website makes reduce his travel to Chile and all the data in the corpus freely and publicly available and is accompanied by the observatory sites in the a suite of powerful search and download Atacama desert. tools. It is by far the most sophisticated corpus of Japanese texts from any of the pre-modern periods of the language. It has been gratifying to see the positive response both in and outside of Japan of the publication of the ONCOJ. The project is far from complete, though, and This past academic year I had sabbatical we continue to work on improvements Physics in Oxford remain a popular chair ESO council as I oversaw the leave in Trinity term (2018) and was and expansion of the corpus. subject with applicants. The big appointment of a new Director General able to spend several periods in Japan, Although I was on leave in Trinity term, news is that Professor Siddarth (Sid) of the organisation, the completion including one month in the spring of I was in Oxford in June and was very Parameswaran has joined us as a of the Atacama Large Millimetre/Sub- 2018, as usual visiting the National pleased to see our finalists in Japanese Tutorial Fellow in Physics. Sid works millimetre Array, the world’s first truly Institute for Japanese Language and and Chinese do very well. Hertford in the area of theoretical condensed global astronomical facility, and the start Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tachikawa on continues to be the largest college for matter physics and joined us from the of construction of the next major project; the western side of Tokyo. Here, I Japanese, with more students in the University of California, Irvine, bringing the imaginatively named Extremely was working with colleagues on the subject than any other college. Together substantial teaching experience as Large Telescope, a 39 metre optical- Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese with their colleagues in Chinese, they well as fascinating research in the infrared telescope – the world’s largest- (abbreviated as the ONCOJ), which is make up a strong and vibrant community quantum realm. Sid has an office in the under construction on the 3000m high an electronic, annotated corpus of texts in Hertford. new Beecroft Physics building which, peak of Cerro Armazones in northern from the Old Japanese period of the it must be said, offers a much nicer Chile. Japanese language (eighth century AD). Professor Bjarke Frellesvig environment than I enjoy in the old Back home in Oxford, our students The ONCOJ includes all poetic texts from Denys Wilkinson Building. are progressing well, enjoying the termly I completed my term as President of gatherings under the auspices of the the Council of the European Southern Tanner Society and obtaining some very Observatory at the end of 2017 and good final results. The new MMathPhys so was expecting to reduce my travel option in the 4th year has proved quite to Chile and the observatory sites in popular with at least one Hertford the Atacama desert. However, I have physicist electing to take that route each I was in Oxford in June and was very pleased to see joined the triennial review committee year since it was initiated in 2014. and so will be returning later in 2018. our finalists in Japanese and Chinese do very well. It was a very interesting period to Professor Pat Roche Hertford continues to be the largest college for Japanese, with more students in the subject than any other college.

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JCR ANNUAL REPORT President Eleanor Frew. Over the course crucial role to play in determining the Student life Michaelmas is a term of transition. The of the week her team organised a range way our college and University develops start of the new year brings a fresh of socials and workshops to introduce in the future with regards to access. cohort of students to the JCR, excited Hertford’s latest recruits to life at the This ethos is reflected in the work and nervous to begin their time at the college. The committee should be of the undergraduate community University. As we welcome new faces congratulated on its exceptional work. at Hertford. As a student body it is we feel acutely the absence of those With the first years settled in, the year clear that inclusivity and diversity are who have graduated, off pursuing new was off to a flying start. principles which we work hard to foster. challenges in the world of work, travel or The JCR has remained committed to Volunteers run tours and talks for school further study. Students return to a place access and equality work. This year saw groups every week, organised by our at once familiar and yet changed with a the publication of the inaugural access JCR Access Officer Katie Chester. Many student body filled with new individuals and admissions report by the University. are also engaged in university-wide and the challenges of another academic Given the report’s findings, the work of schemes such as Target Schools and year. Thinking of the changes taking the JCR has become even more vital volunteer with local schools improving place in our community over the course in encouraging a range of students literacy and maths skills and engaging of this term provides an opportunity to apply and ensure no individual children from deprived areas of the city. to reflect on the year gone by. As the faces barriers to studying at the In Hilary term, the Equal Opportunities old and new converge, we are able to University. I was proud to be part of the Committee ran the JCR’s annual celebrate what has been a fantastic ‘#thereisaplaceforyouhere’ campaign Equalities Week. It was a fantastic 2017-18 for Hertford JCR. launched by the JCR Presidents that celebration of the diversity in our The year began with the welcoming of came as a response to the report. As community and prompted thought- the new students by Freshers Committee students, we recognise we have a provoking discussion across a wide

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of the Hertford Play, a parody of Hertford life written by our very own Katie Burke. After a weekend of dance workshops, open mic nights and even a ‘porter portraits’ session, the JCR was filled with budding ‘Hartists’ [see also the separate report below]. JCR sport has enjoyed another hugely successful year. Reports from the JCR sports officer as well as captains demonstrate the high standard at which our teams compete across the University. It is safe to say the JCR’s deer mascot made a triumphant return to the sidelines, establishing Hertford as a force to be reckoned with. However, this year was also unique in terms of the number of undergraduates who became The men’s rugby team has continued involved in college sport. Our teams its annual Good Lad workshops, encourage all abilities and levels of with the men’s football team soon to experience and play an important role in introduce them. The workshops, which our community, providing students with a seek to promote positive masculinity, space to socialise and keep fit. demonstrate the progressive and In particular, women’s sport has supportive culture that is developing range of issues, including race, gender members of the college the chance to grown, encouraged by the university- and class. Particular highlights included propose a charity to receive donations surrounding sport in the JCR. wide ‘#thisgirlcan’ campaign which aims As the summer months passed by, the Women’s* LGBTQ+, Class and BME and consequently reflects the interests to promote and celebrate female sport. dinners. The JCR was privileged to and passions of the JCR. the England football team inspired the The introduction of ‘women’s hours’ nation. But, even as Eric Dier’s winning welcome Hertford alumnus Soweto Hertford for the Homeless (H4H) has in the Hertford gym has also created Kinch who spoke and led an inspiring also enjoyed another hugely successful penalty curled into the bottom left a secure space in which women may hand corner of the net, an altogether discussion on the experience of black year, growing as an organisation with access the gym confidently. students at Oxford. a new committee lead by Rosa Curson different battle was being waged over This year also saw the creation of the Smith. They now run termly ‘charity soup on BBC Two. New Hertford Heroes first Equality and Diversity Committee lunches’ in Hall and in Trinity term they were born in the form of the college’s on which members of the JCR Equal organised a ceilidh for the JCR with first University Challenge team in eight Opportunities Committee will sit all profits donated to homelessness years. Team captain Richard Tudor alongside the Tutor for Equality. This charities in Oxford. This Michaelmas, the (otherwise known as Hertford’s answer has been welcomed as offering another Hertford for the Homeless logo will be to Gareth Southgate) led a brilliant forum in which students may make their printed on the JCR sports kit, helping effort alongside teammates Chris Page, voices heard and is testament not only to take the group to new heights as it Steffi Woodgate and Pat Taylor against to the egalitarian attitudes within our enters its third year. Clare College, Cambridge. In a nail- college but the growing conversation Arts representative Sophie Street has biting performance, the teams entered that is developing between staff and run a series of hugely successful events the final minute drawn with 150 points students. over the year, including open mic nights, apiece, only to be robbed in the closing Charity has continued to be at the painting sessions and art exhibitions. seconds. Despite this, and in true heart of the work of the JCR. Termly HARTfest, the annual JCR arts festival, England football style, our University charities motions have seen the JCR took place in Hilary term and delivered Challenge legends have found hope in charities budget divided between a the usual exuberant celebration of loss, confirmed as the highest-scoring range of causes from Oxford-based Turl creativity. The week had something for losers and progressing onto the next Street Homeless Action to a youth centre everyone, beginning with jazz in OB round. University Challenge is coming in South London. The motions offer all Quad and the much-anticipated return home.

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As my time as JCR President draws MCR. It was wonderful to see yet another to a close I could not be more proud of year’s intake of students start making the JCR. We are a diverse, vibrant and use of the tea room during lunch and inclusive community and it has been spending time in the Octagon working my absolute privilege to help build it during the day as well as adding their over the last year. From access work, to home town to a map in the tea room charitable initiatives, to arts festivals and which represents the diversity of the sporting achievements, there’s always MCR members. something to get involved with. Hertford The evenings of Freshers’ Weeks saw is such a brilliant place to study, in a a range of events being hosted in the large part due to the atmosphere that MCR to welcome new students. They exists within the JCR. As the transitions were able to mingle but also meet those of Michaelmas begin we can be sure that who had been around Hertford for a one thing will always remain a constant: year or two already at events such as the JCR definitely has ‘Hert’. the Freshers’ Mixer and the Graduate Clusters Dinner. The latter gave attendees Jude Lewis, JCR President a chance to meet new and returning MCR members with similar academic interests in a relaxed environment. Thus, MCR ANNUAL REPORT over the three weeks, thanks to the very The academic year 2017/18 held a hard work of the MCR Committee, the multitude of successes and positive new MCR members received a warm experiences for the Hertford College and extensive introduction to the city stories about their research alongside beautiful Saturday filled with football and Middle Common Room and its 250 of dreaming spires and their college keynote speaker Dr Robin Carhart- rounders, sun and a barbecue – and postgraduate student members. In late here at Oxford, culminating with the Harris, Head of Psychedelic Research at we were athletic enough to be able to September, as the first of the three Matriculation Ball in the Hertford Hall on Imperial College London. To conclude walk away with the best MCR trophy. Freshers’ Weeks the MCR organises the evening of matriculation day. the term, the Octagon hosted the The academic year concluded with a began, we welcomed 110 new students. Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity terms suitably festive end-of-term drinks with boat party – drinks, music, and excellent The lively mixture of Masters, MPhils, and saw the return of some favourite mulled wine next to the cosy fireplace. company on a cruise down the River DPhils immediately took the opportunity traditional events and always-popular The rest of the year proceeded in a Thames. to spend time, study and socialise, in the MCR guest nights as well as the addition similarly busy fashion with Hilary and Looking back on 2017/18 and the centrally located common rooms of the of new ventures. For a number of years, Trinity having their own MCR guest many successful events it held for the MCR has celebrated the birthday nights and academic soirees as well as Hertford College Middle Common of Evelyn Waugh in October with a a multitude of tasting and food events. A Room I know that I was very fortunate to 20s-themed evening. This year was no personal highlight of Hilary was certainly preside over a committee dedicated to different as members and guests alike Burns Night – complete with the address creating a friendly and welcoming MCR dressed up to capture the spirit of the to the haggis accompanying a meal for all members and guests. My thanks Roaring Twenties. After a lovely dinner in Hall and an evening of whisky and for the brilliant year go out to all those in Hall, they moved to the Octagon to ceilidh dancing in the MCR. For the first who came along to the many events, the enjoy a period-appropriate cocktail time over a number of years we also committee members who put time and menu created by MCR Sommelier organised a wine and cheese evening effort into their respective roles, and the Andrew Simon. The first MCR guest of in collaboration with Hertford Society in Octagon – a room of such character that the year and a most wonderful time at February, thus enabling the current MCR it makes any evening there very special. the Oxmas dinner followed the success members to meet and hear the stories of As another set of Freshers’ Weeks and a of the Waugh Night. The eight weeks of those who left the college some time ago. part of Michaelmas has already passed, I Michaelmas fitted a number of events, The return of warmer weathers in Trinity have witnessed the start of another great ranging from food-based to academic, meant that the MCR was also able to year for the Hertford MCR and I am sure held in our very own Octagon. The organise punting trips from the Cherwell that these will continue year after year! Michaelmas Academic Soiree in mid- Boathouse. We also participated in an November saw three graduates sharing inter-collegiate graduate sports day – a Liisa Parts, MCR President

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HARTFEST This year, I also wanted to involve the with ‘The Oxford Revue’ in the college University, and continues to proudly HARTfest took place on a sunny weekend talent of University groups and resources bar. Over the weekend, ‘hartist’ badges boast its non-auditioning ethos. The in early May for the fourth year running. to incorporate Hertford into the wider were also sold with all proceeds going college orchestra has enjoyed tackling The weekend came together through arts scene offered by Oxford. New towards the Hertford charity, Hertford for some ambitious repertoire, including the hard work of a small volunteer team events which aimed to do this included a the Homeless. Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte, of students. two-hour DJ workshop run by the Oxford All in all, HARTfest was a huge success Debussy’s Petite Suite and Shore’s Over the weekend, 15 events made student DJ group ‘Goodness’, a VR taster and a pleasure to organise alongside a Symphonic Suite from The Lord of the sure there was something for everyone session, and a stand-up comedy night great team of volunteers. Not only was Rings. The orchestra has been pleased and that Hertford talent was put on the weekend huge fun, it also drew the to welcome Maddy Withers, a second display. They included a life drawing college together and allowed students year musician from Hertford, as its new class, poetry reading session, Jackson to showcase their talents. conductor at the beginning of Trinity Pollock session, and open mic night. 2018. HCMS’s termly concerts, held at However, the best attended was the Sophie Street University Church, are the culmination of ‘Harry Potter and the Hertford School of an enormous amount of hard work and Witchchat and Wizardry’ play scripted preparation, and the HCMS orchestra by second year Katie Burke. This light- MUSIC is renowned for its exciting and varied hearted play was a warm parody of This year has been another fantastic concert finales. As the society’s largest college life, performed on the main quad one for music at Hertford College. Music ensemble, the orchestra is the largest, by a cast of 16 actors and crew members. is often at the heart of day-to-day life in and safest musical space, which allows Jazz on the Quad with Pimms preceded college, and at the very centre of all this is students of all abilities to develop their the play on the Friday afternoon and Hertford College Music Society (HCMS), skills and take part in a performance was well attended, with students sitting the largest collegiate music society which entertains others and provides on the grass on blankets enjoying the of the University. The society, and its a sense of personal fulfilment for all beautiful weather and Hertford’s very President Hannah Towndrow, welcomes its participants. As part of this ethos, own jazz band. musicians from across the entire the committee continues to reappoint

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Upcoming One of these musicians, and the chamber operas, in collaboration with more specifically, ‘Brexit’ has dominated speaker events include continuing the newest leader of the HCMS jazz band, other groups and performers across the the HPES agenda this year, with another ‘Hertford Conversations’, with some Elliot Chowne, has directed the band in University. talk hosted by Will Hutton and Andrew extremely exciting journalists and media a variety of exciting and successful gigs HCMS is fortunate enough to enjoy Adonis, at which they introduced their personalities in the pipeline! this year. In Trinity term, HARTfest saw support from college, the JCR and book Saving Britain to the college. hundreds of JCR and MCR members a number of donors, including our However, Brexit hasn’t been the only Annie Simm enjoying the jazz band’s music in the honorary patron, Sir Nicholas Jackson. thing on our minds: another notable midday sun of 2018’s heatwave. Jazz and With continuing support from the speaker was with Paul Mason, who cocktails is possibly the most anticipated college community and beyond, HCMS gave an extremely memorable ‘Future SPORT event in the musical calendar and is an continues to go from strength to strength. of The Left’ speech followed, again, The Hertford lacrosse team was evening known to be enjoyed by all, by a wonderful dinner with HPES and unfortunately limited to Cuppers and for which tickets quickly sell out! Charlotte Corderoy & Hannah Towndrow Hertford students. opportunities this season because of Last year’s event in Hilary term was no We finished-the year with an the league restructuring. Nonetheless, exception, and even saw an hour-long ambitious and first-of-its-kind for Hertford continued its strong Cuppers encore from the band, who delighted HERTFORD POLITICS AND Hertford networking event, which was legacy from last year and made it to the with Glenn Miller classics and newer ECONOMICS SOCIETY joint engineered between HPES and semi-finals, narrowly missing out on the music from Michael Giacchino. The newly launched Hertford Politics Hertford’s Development Office. This opportunity to once again challenge for The society’s newest initiative has and Economics Society definitely had an alumni social comprised 20 alumni, Cuppers victory. Many team members been a serious drive on chamber music. exciting year in 2017-18. currently working in a number of different were first-time lacrosse players, so there Charlotte Corderoy, second-year Organ We began by hosting the Hertford sectors, and 20 Hertford students. is real hope the team can achieve both Scholar at Hertford, has pioneered the Lecture series, a number of lectures The event took place at Deloitte league and Cuppers success next year. Hertford College Chamber Ensemble focusing on the historical relationship headquarters in London and was a great Hertford rugby had a historic season (HCCE). In the academic year 2017/2018, between British prime ministers and the success, introducing students to a range last year, achieving both its highest the ensemble took the form of a wind EU. This was the most exciting series of of career paths and inspiring them with league placing, and highest Cuppers quintet, and explored the lesser known events that I personally have experienced real-life Hertford success stories. placing in years. Hertford rugby had a rep of Danzi. The quintet is formed of as a member of HPES. Spearheaded by Looking ahead, HPES has a lot to strong and successful Michaelmas with some of the HCMS’s most advanced Will Hutton and Lord Andrew Adonis, the be excited about. Our name change victories over Teddy Hall and Keble – the instrumentalists. Although the chamber speakers included Lord Wood of Anfield endeavoured to reflect the increasingly first in decades! This led Hertford to an ensemble is still non-auditioned and (special advisor to Gordon Brown), Steve Richards (journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster) and Sir Ivan Rogers, fresh from his controversial resignation as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union. The lectures saw The society’s newest plenty of other famous faces from politics initiative has been a serious and media, such as Sky News Editor drive on chamber music. Adam Boulton and close acquaintance and aide to Tony Blair, Anji Hunter, and Charlotte Corderoy, second- gave a fantastic insight into the inner year Organ Scholar at workings of the government and the European Union. Hertford, has pioneered the Furthermore, a number of HPES Hertford College Chamber students were privileged enough to dine Ensemble (HCCE). with the speakers following the event. A lively debate covered everything from

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 98 Student life HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Student life 99 unprecedented second place in division against Lincoln College with a strong doable due to a clash with Hertford’s one. However, Hilary could not continue performance at the Hinksey Park sports day, next year promises to be yet the huge success of Michaelmas. A tennis courts. However, this would be another successful season, hopefully mixture of injuries and bad luck led to as far as Hertford would progress, an with a Cuppers win too. Hertford Men’s First XI relegation, with Hertford needing to unfavourable draw pitting the team Hertford Men’s First XI football win the final game of the campaign to against eventual finalist New College in enjoyed tremendous and football enjoyed tremendous stay up but succumbing to a narrow the second round. Nevertheless, when unprecedented success last season. and unprecedented success loss. Hertford’s Cuppers campaign was the weather held off as it did in the The team started the season with a last season. The team started without doubt the highlight of the year, second half of Trinity, Hertford played strong 5-1 win away at promotion and with the team embarking on a strong some very good tennis and showed a college rival St Hilda’s College. This the season with a strong campaign that unfortunately ended with strength in depth almost unparalleled was followed by an unfortunate extra 5-1 win away at promotion a loss to overall winner Teddy Hall in the across Oxford. This bodes very well for time loss to premier division side and semi-finals. Hertford rugby’s comeback next year when Hertford aims to mount eventual winners Worcester College, and college rival St Hilda’s victory over New College under the a stronger tennis Cuppers campaign. Hertford leading for nearly 70 minutes of College. floodlights at Iffley Road in the quarter- The Hertford mixed rounders team the game! One of the strangest games finals was a special moment and a crucial was newly formed for the league of football Hertford has ever seen then part of a campaign Hertford is hoping to competition, competing as an exclusive saw a 5-5 draw away at Oriel College defensive performances, conceding the emulate. The season began early this Cuppers and female team last year. that included five penalties (three for fewest goals in the league that propelled year as it always does with a pre-season Under dual fresher captaincy of Hertford, two for Oriel) and a last-grasp Hertford’s promotion to the JCR 2nd tour. This year, the destination was to be Amelia Bowman and Haider Mukhles, equaliser for Hertford. Next up was the Division. Looking to next season, with a Brussels – Hertford emerging victorious the team had an excellent start to the inaugural Hassan’s Cup competition, talented bunch of freshers entering the against Straffe Ketten 44-10, hopefully season, beating Christ Church in a which saw Hertford upset Division 1 team, the boys in burgundy are hopeful setting the tone for the season. dramatic 10.5-10 victory. The rest of outfit Pembroke 2-0 away from home. for a second successive promotion and Hertford tennis had a very strong the season went just as well despite a Hertford would unfortunately lose a fruitful Cuppers run. league team last season, suffering only half-rounder loss to bitter college rival next round on penalties to eventual The Hertford Men’s Second XI one defeat in the league. This included St Hilda’s. This loss has only increased winner St Anne’s College. This was football team had one of its most victories over Jesus College, Lincoln determination to overturn the result and to be the last blemish to a Hertford successful seasons, with the team College, Wolfson College, and Balliol make Hertford an established beacon team, unbeatable in normal time and narrowly missing out on promotion to College. Unfortunately, the solitary of strength in rounders! As a fun sport, in the league, winning the league to the Reserves Premier Division by just loss came against Lady Margaret Hall the team enjoyed weekly matches and earn title of ‘the invincibles’. Although two points. This was achieved by some by one solitary set! Hertford made the social aspect of playing sport in goals were bountiful, scoring 46 in just great performances both on and off it through the first round of Cuppers Trinity term. Although Cuppers wasn’t 12 games, it was the consistently solid the pitch. The team benefited from a

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 100 Student life HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Student life 101 strong influx of freshers into the side, by eventual winners and Division 1 of badminton facilities at Hertford. The who complemented the stalwarts of outfit Worcester College in a 3-1 loss. club quickly achieved good strength in Richard Tudor, Adam Kennedy and Tom Strong league performances continued depth with around 25 active players. Evans, amongst others. Captain Jacob with wins against Jesus, Keble and Hillary term saw the creation Unfortunately, given the relative depth Hamilton did a sterling job securing Balliol, Hertford’s only defeat of the in the more established colleges the midfield throughout the season, season coming in a narrow 1-0 loss to of the college badminton in badminton, both the men’s and with some wonderful tackles and long- Teddy Hall. In Futsal Cuppers, the team club, which trained each women’s teams made early exits from range strikes showing why he was reached the quarter-final – narrowly weekend in the hope of Cuppers. This has not disheartened the asked to be first team captain. The losing out to eventual winner Keble. hungry pool of students who train and team started in the strongest fashion The second team once again provided reaching the level of the more play regularly. They are hoping that the possible, defeating St Anne’s College a welcoming, friendly atmosphere to all established teams. progress made will lead to a stronger 7-0 away from home. This was followed players and the team looks once again challenge next year. up with a 4-2 win in Cuppers against in a good position to be able to seriously 2018 was another strong year for St.Hugh’s seconds. The Cuppers compete for the league title this year, Hertford College cricket club. Despite campaign was unfortunately curtailed and also prove itself in Cuppers whilst Unfortunately, a shock cup exit then an early 41-run loss to ever-strong having a good time off the pitch. followed to last year’s runners-up, the Balliol, the boys made a serious push Women’s football had another strong Foxes. Nonetheless, the Hertford/Keble in the cricket first division, assisted by a season, with the team being unbeaten team bounced back to reach the final of strong nucleus of enthusiastic freshers. in the league and earning a deserved Futsal Cuppers in Trinity term, only losing In the end, we finished a respectable, promotion back to the women’s premier 1-0 against a Rhodes Scholars team. though slightly disappointing, second division. The team began the season With lots of girls picking up football for to a resurgent Worcester team. In the Women’s football had with a strong and hard-fought 3-3 draw the first time at Hertford, the team has process, the team recorded a strong away at the Saints. This was followed laid the groundwork for another magical victory against a Merton/Mansfield another strong season, with by four successive wins in the league, cup run next season. team, Trinity College and Jesus College. the team being unbeaten including dominant performances in a Hillary term saw the creation of the However, Cuppers was the competition 6-0 win against Queen’s College and college badminton club, which trained where HCCC really made waves. They in the league and earning a a 5-0 win against Somerville College. A each weekend in the hope of reaching surged through the early rounds, with deserved promotion back final day draw against St Hilda’s sealed the level of the more established teams. comprehensive victories early against to the women’s premier an immediate return to the premier This was a groundbreaking moment Wadham and Merton. With strong league for Hertford/Keble. Hertford very much driven by freshers and the individual and team performances, division. began the Cuppers campaign in a college’s desire to participate in sports, HCCC braved controversy and strong fashion, beating LMH/Trinity 3-1. made all the more remarkable by a lack cricketing excellence in the later rounds

Hertford College magazine | 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 102 Student life HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Student life 103 to eventually reach the semi-finals. In the once again ventured into international the team performed exceptionally team’s most impressive performance of a cricket with varying amounts of success. well and laid the foundations for future successful season, HCCC eventually fell This took the form of a tour to Budapest dominance. Throughout the year, short on the penultimate ball, bringing an to play two local sides and a team made the club maintained large turnouts to Throughout the year, the club end to a thrilling Cuppers run. up predominantly of Hungarian national practices, which resulted in both A and The team can hold great pride in that team players. This resulted in two losses B teams being entered into Trinity’s maintained large turnouts the only team that could dislodge them and a win, but the tour – incredibly Cuppers tournaments. In these, Hertford to practices, which resulted was eventual winner Jesus College. successful off the pitch, albeit less so on were impressive finalists in the mixed in both A and B teams This year, Hertford got a sniff at glory. it – brought an end to another glorious tournament, with the women’s team Next year, we are confident of going season among many. reaching the quarter-finals, and the B being entered into Trinity’s one step further. In August, following a Hertford’s netball club had another teams finishing highly in both tournament Cuppers tournaments. successful domestic campaign, HCCC fantastic season. In Michaelmas, the team group stages. HCNC is hopeful for opened up with an excellent 3-2 victory another strong season, aiming for a against neighbour Wadham College. promotion into Division 2 and potential Michaelmas marked the arrival of a new introduction of a full-time B team. kit, Hertford netball duly responded to this Darts unfortunately had a truncated Other sports which deserve particular professional look with a comprehensive season, which ended halfway through mention are Skiing Cuppers, which is dispatching of Mansfield College after an administrative breakdown at undertaken on the annual varsity trip Other sports which deserve 9-1. Wins against University College, the inter-collegiate level. This curtailed where Hertford finished third out of all Brasenose College, Osler House, Exeter what was shaping up to be another Oxford and Cambridge colleges and particular mention are College and promotion rival St John’s dominant season in front of the board. second out of Oxford colleges. Hockey Skiing Cuppers, which is College meant the team secured an Nonetheless, Hertford was well on its way continues to be played alongside undefeated first-place promotion, an to a fifth consecutive league title, having St Peter’s. With a strong turnout of undertaken on the annual amazing feat from Hertford! This saw chalked up four victories (including a Hertford students each week, the team varisty trip where Hertford Hertford begin Hilary in Division 2, 12-0) already in the year. Hertford has is hoping for a stronger campaign this finished third out of all opening up with a strong 7-5 win over successfully transferred its dominance in year. Hertford entered and emerged Magdalen College. The team followed darts to the next generation of players, victorious from Cheer Cuppers this Oxford and Cambridge this with comprehensive 22-6, 21-7 and with DTB helping to reinforce its status year, an amazing feat from a newly colleges and second out of 8-7 victories against Pembroke, Jesus as Oxford’s best college at darts. Efforts formed team and one it is confident of and Corpus respectively. Unfortunately, are being made to set up an internal replicating. Another strong performance Oxford colleges. a single loss was enough to deny darts league in Hertford this term, such in the Teddy Hall Neptune relay promotion to Division 1. Nonetheless, is the demand to play! epitomises the multi-talented nature of

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Hertford students and their willingness ROWING to get involved in sports. With both M1 and W1 beginning the year Taking a holistic view of sport, extremely high on the river, there was a Hertford sport’s strong social media lot of work to be done. However, both presence has been increased, with teams took this challenge in their stride pictures and descriptions of sports and we saw a fantastic year of racing with results being published on Instagram the men winning at Worcester regatta and (@sportathertfordcollege – feel free rowing over every day of VIIIs and the to follow to keep up to date!) as and women placing second in their division at when they occur for both current and Henley 4s and 8s and coming a second past students to see. There were huge off qualifying at Henley Women’s. crowds present at many of Hertford’s Torpids was unfortunately a very cold Cuppers fixtures – rugby Cuppers affair this year with crews rowing through quarter- and semi-finals proving a big what can only be described as a blizzard draw given the opportunity to purchase and two of the days being cancelled due beverages (both with and without to bad weather. The W2 boat had an alcohol). The mantra of participation absolute blinder, defying expectations being crucial at Hertford College to bump up three places in two days, appears to be permeating through moving from Division V to Division VI. the years with levels of participation This means for the first time in two years higher than ever. Indeed, such an they won’t have to take part in rowing on! atmosphere plays a part in boosting Hertford M2 rowed over both days which performance, with many sports such as was great to see as well. by the RAF, but this could not deter the Ahead of next year we have had a football and netball climbing to heights Unfortunately, despite all the hard work crew. Fears aside, they had a strong race, complete refurbishment of our VIIIs and unseen. Sports day in Trinity term and the amazing results in external races, spurred on by cheers from supporters the men’s fours, ready for the novices, and an inaugural sports formal dinner the first boats didn’t match these results. at Hammersmith (thank you) and the so we’re excited to see what HCBC can furthered this celebration of sport Both M1 and W1 dropped two places, but RAF never stood a chance. We finished do this time around. We’d like to thank and demonstrated how crucial it is in are still firmly in Division I and ready to in 146th position having started at 190th, all our alumni for their great support. If everyday life. fight back. being the third fastest Oxford college you don’t already, please follow us on The women had a great time at crew on the day. Facebook (Hertford College Boat Club) David Melvin, JCR Sports Officer WeHORR. There were definite nerves Trinity term went much better for the or Instagram/Twitter (@HECBC) so you after seeing they were being chased men with M1 rowing over every day in can keep up-to- date with everything as summer VIIIs and holding their position it happens! in division II despite tough competition from behind as well as securing a win Philippa Thornton at Worcester regatta! So, as it turns out some of the more particularly difficult ergs were definitely worth it (but you can ask the men about that if you see them). The women too had a stronger term, despite dropping three positions in VIIIs due to a relatively novice crew (four of the Torpids crew were finalists), they came back for a stunning performance at Henley Women’s, finishing one second off qualifying in an LMH composite. Whilst this was sad, it was a great end to a fantastic year of rowing with some amazing people.

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JCR CHARITY This year, Hertford Charities has worked closely with the student-led organisation, Hertford for the Homeless, directing our efforts primarily to address the homeless crisis in Oxford. We have approached this by supporting local charities through fundraisers, who help provide long-term aid such as housing, job training and rehab programmes, as well as short-term aid directly to those living on the streets. Walking through the streets of Oxford as a student, one is aware that we are part of a tale of two cities. On the one hand, we have the privilege of studying at one of the most prosperous institutions in the country and receiving a world- class education which will improve our life prospects considerably. Yet, every day, we walk past large numbers of people sleeping rough. Oxford has the sixth highest rate of homeless in the country (after the City of London and year to be donated to charity. This year Westminster, Brighton, Camden, Bedford it was split between Crisis Oxford and and Luton) with the rate of rough sleeping Homeless Oxfordshire. being 1.02 to every 1,000 households, In terms of short-term aid, during sub- compared to the national average of zero temperatures in Hilary term 2018 0.2. That’s why we have made this the we distributed refillable hot water bottles primary focus of our charity efforts this and warm clothes to the homeless. year. This was done alongside running an In terms of fundraising, we arranged information campaign for students at a lunch in Hall in Michaelmas term 2017, the University about who to contact if working with the catering staff to raise they were worried about the health of around £300. Then in Trinity term 2018 someone sleeping rough. In addition, we put on a ceilidh for students, raising every fortnight, a collection box was left over £400 which went to the NGOs in the lodge for donations of toiletries Homeless Oxfordshire and Greater and sanitary items which were then Change. In addition, 50p from every bop given to O’Hanlon House, a shelter for ticket sold this academic year was given the homeless community. We hope that to Hertford for the Homeless, and then is our efforts as a college have made some donated to a different homeless charity. improvements for the prospects of the During equalities week, we were able homeless in Oxford and their day-to-day to raise £122 from the bop and donated life a little easier. this to the Albert Kennedy Trust. Finally, the JCR battels each student £3.50 per Rosa Curson Smith

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arion read Classics at Exeter You were at Hertford in 2013. How As for the choice of subject, my Interview M University prior to arriving at Hertford did you choose your course and the conscious interest in this line of work as an MPhil student in Global Governance college? came from my undergraduate years and Diplomacy in 2013. She worked on There were only a few colleges that had when I volunteered for organisations like with Marion international development policy and spaces for my course, and I was looking UNICEF. Before I decided I want to study practice for a range of organisations for a college which was intimate enough international development I had already Osieyo including U.S. Congress and Cherie Blair for me to really get to know people had some experiences that made me Foundation for Women. Marion is now and would have a mix of students from have a particular orientation to the world. By Olga Batty, Deputy a Sustainable Development Goals Hub different backgrounds and disciplines. One of them is the fact that I was born in Development Director Manager at WWF-UK. I met Marion in One thing I really sensed from people Kenya and moved to the UK at the age of the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking I met at Hertford was that they were 9. I always knew that there are multiple to talk about her work in sustainable genuinely curious to get to know each perspectives in any given moment, and development. other and share contacts and resources. that what seems normal and grounded If someone was looking to go into a in reality for one is a completely different particular industry, we would always experience for someone else. So I was provide useful contacts for each other. always curious to look at things from a global perspective.

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You worked with such institutions as which need to be met by 2030. It is quite which is a forum for activists and policy convenor in sustainable development BOND UK, DFID and U.S. Congress. ground-breaking for global governance specialists to talk about their work. The you need to be patient and persistent Did you find one of those experiences and international development because direction of my writing now is to focus on because it takes a while to get people worked particularly well for you in it looks at global issues as a system. convening as I believe it’s one of the most on the same page. The issues are very building your career? Previously, when we were looking at important skills in this century. urgent but to see results takes a long One of the most interesting poverty, for example, it was seen as a time. Our political institutions work on a experiences I had was just before I particular socio-economic issue. The If you were to give advice to current very short-term basis, 4-5 year terms, but started at Oxford. I spent a summer new system allows us to look at poverty students about what it takes to be in order to see change in sustainable working as a foreign policy intern for as driven by multiple causes, which are a convenor, what skills are the most development you need a much longer a U.S. Congressman in his Capitol Hill social, environmental and economic important in your line of work? timeframe, so it’s difficult to get people to office. It was my first experience in seeing in nature. All these dimensions as The most important is to think across commit to something knowing they are an institution at large and how it functions interlinked, and it gives us an opportunity several disciplines and be open to not going to see the result in their political on a day-to-day basis. One lesson I learnt to study its global drivers. multiple perspectives. Then I would say tenure. It’s important to very patient and very quickly - and I think it’s important to This is something that has been almost the skill called deep listening, so listening not lose enthusiasm. remember when working in international 30 years in the making. It started off in in order to understand. Being curious is If I was to highlight top three skills, I development and global governance - is 1987, when a report commissioned by the another dimension of deep listening. would say it’s being able to value cross- that you don’t need to have a senior title former Prime Minister of Norway triggered Being more committed to understanding disciplinary work, being able to deeply to make a contribution. Whether it was a series of declarations and agendas a perspective than to prove your point - listen and understand people, and being doing last-minute research on a specific which eventually led to this agreement that’s also very important. Working as a curious all the time. crisis (at that time it was the civil war in in 2015. Multilateralism isn’t perfect, it Syria), or attending a meeting on behalf takes a long time to get things done, but it of the Congressman’s office, everything works in bringing about transformational had an impact on people’s day-to-day change in how we see the world. And that work. One can always find opportunities for me is very inspirational, especially at to bring change, even at the very start of the time when there are so many urgent one’s career. and pressing issues. It is a very exciting time to work on the questions about What do you focus on at WWF? how we can bring more people to the My role is to convene a network within table, how to change the ways the table all WWF offices around the world to work is built and how we can change focus on a UN agenda called the Sustainable from simply tackling problems to broader Development Goals (SDGs). This agenda development strategies. was agreed in 2015 and it sets out 17 goals You were recently awarded the ‘Best Online Social Impact Journalist’ at the 2018 GHP Social Care Awards. Can you tell me more about your writing and the public side of your work? I believe in writing as an avenue for social change, and I have been writing for a long time, mainly about political issues. Having Before I decided I want started as a poet - I was part of Barbican to study international Young Poets programme in 2012-2013 – I now write essays and blog posts about development I had already my work. I also created platforms for other had some experiences that people to write: for example, I worked with European Development Days which made me have a particular is a subsidiary arm of the European orientation to the world. Commission to launch an online platform called “Young Leaders for Development”,

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matriculated in 1987 and read this was brought home to me when I was Russia, a I Biochemistry, completing my given a ‘burner’ mobile phone – it would degree in June 1991. Three months later be used in Russia and then thrown away, I joined the Metropolitan Police Service and told not to share the number with London and after training at Hendon I was sent to anyone unless absolutely essential. No Tottenham in North London. My first patrol social media sharing, no phone calls to ‘Bobby’ and was an eye-opener for a recent graduate family or friends, and no calls to my boss of Oxford University. It was, however, (not necessarily a bad thing!). This was an excellent place to learn the ‘trade’ then compounded when we were warned the Beautiful of being a police officer. The people about ‘honey traps’, not something I had I met, both in and outside the police, worried about working on the streets of Game and the challenges I faced in those first London. Never mind, on the basis of their years have stayed with me throughout previous performances England, and Joseph Stokoe my career. It was here in Tottenham therefore I, wouldn’t be away for more (Biochemistry 1987) that I was first introduced to policing than two weeks! How mistaken I was, for football at White Hart Lane, the home of the matches that are easy to attend and this was the year England decided to play Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. From provide ample opportunity to drink cheap well and I was away in Russia for five and my first match I knew I had found the beer. a half weeks – one of the longest ever area of policing I wanted to concentrate This was the setting for my first deployments of English police officers on – much to the confusion of family and deployment in March 2018 with the overseas for football. friends who assumed I would use my England team in Amsterdam playing We flew out to Russia on 10 June degree as a detective or crime scene on a Friday night – a recipe for disaster and were billeted in a police training examiner. Over the 27 years since then which duly played out with 111 English establishment just outside Moscow I have policed football matches from fans arrested and lots of internet footage Domodedovo Airport. The entrance was League Two to the Champions League of their appalling, anti-social behaviour. down a half-mile road through the woods final. This led to me being asked to lead This was against the backdrop of the and on a good day it was a 90-minute a team of police officers who work with upcoming 2018 World Cup in Russia taxi ride to Red Square. Suffice to say, we foreign police services and travelling and the increasingly apocalyptic media were away from any temptation and easy supporters when London teams play headlines of riots and revenge between for the Russians to monitor – particularly abroad. I have travelled to Istanbul with English and Russian hooligans. I met the given the fact there were eight smoke Arsenal, Germany with Tottenham and Deputy Head of the Moscow Police in detectors in my room! England’s first Israel and France with Chelsea. Being Amsterdam as around 30 England fans match against Tunisia was in Volgograd, able to work with foreign police services were arrested. It was very difficult to formerly known as Stalingrad, and site of to assist both them and the travelling fans convince him that this would not happen greatly improved my policing skills and in Russia. It was clear to those of us knowledge for London’s streets. involved in policing football and working With this experience I successfully with fan and supporter groups that these applied in September 2017 to be the loutish, anti-social England fans would not senior officer leading a team of English travel to Russia – it was too difficult and police officers when the England football scary. This was a hard sell to the Russians team plays overseas. The reputation and our own government, who were With this experience I and behaviour of England fans means it considering mass violence and multiple successfully applied in can be hard to convince foreign police arrests and the diplomatic challenge that officers that when England fans arrive in would bring. September 2017 to be the their town they are not going to destroy So I went to Russia for the World Cup senior officer leading a team it. The vast majority of England fans are just at a time when, in the words of one decent, committed people who invest a of our Foreign Office advisors, diplomatic of English police officers lot of time and money to follow the team. relations between Russia and the UK when the England football But there is also a significant loutish and were at their lowest point in decades, in team plays overseas. obnoxious element that will turn out for essence a diplomatic war. The reality of

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tiny flies that could only be kept away with a win and England to win the first World liberal applications of a Russian fly spray, Cup final since 1966… which I am not convinced would pass The rest, as they say is history, our environmental and health protection England lost 2-1 to Croatia and we were rules! sent to St Petersburg for the third place Later in the evening there was an play-off, a meaningless match to which incident in a bar where a small number only about 800 England fans travelled. of England fans were filmed singing This meant I did not return to England anti-Semitic songs. Thanks to some until 18 July after seven England excellent work back in England all three matches, 12 flights and a five-a-side were identified and served with football football match between the English and banning orders. They will not be able to the St Petersburg police (an honourable travel abroad or within the UK to watch of England fans were going to descend 6-6 draw). England for at least three years. This was on the place by crossing the land border It was a privilege to have been given a clear demonstration to our hosts of the caused some real nervousness amongst an opportunity to go and work in Russia the first major defeat of a Nazi army by the commitment of the British police to a safe the local police officers. In our meetings with some great colleagues and very Allies – but at a huge cost to the Russian and peaceful World Cup. After meeting they were clear their tolerance level for professional Russian police officers. people and the utter destruction of the the local Major-General after the match anti-social behaviour was low and there Although I was there for an extended city. The Battle of Stalingrad is hugely we flew to Nizhny Novgorod for the next were plenty of riot police if required. The period and got to know our Russian significant to the Russian people and it match against Panama. Nizhny Novgorod match again passed peacefully and so hosts well, I did not meet many Russian provided an interesting first location for was a closed city in the old USSR, for the first time in nearly two weeks we citizens or get a sense of what life was England to play with concerns over our meaning its existence wasn’t officially returned to Moscow for the match against really like for them. It was apparent all fans behaving respectfully. acknowledged and foreigners could not Colombia. of Russia was on best behaviour for The officers in Volgograd were very visit it. In our first meeting with the local It started with a meeting with the deputy the World Cup – from the police to the welcoming and immediately put us at police they asked us not to leave the head of Moscow police whom I had met hooligans – and any misbehaviour by our ease, showing us around the stadium hotel as local people were ‘not used to in Amsterdam. Wry smiles were shared. foreign fans would be overlooked. One and fanzone and advising us their local seeing foreigners. I am still not sure if this This was now the knock-out phase and local newspaper even suggested to its hooligans had met the chief of police and was true or a means of controlling us. The tensions were high in the stadium as readers that if they put on a football shirt been told to behave. They were keen match passed off without incident and the end of 90 minutes approached – and painted a flag on their face they to know how many English ‘hooligans’ Oleg and Alex, our local officers, were Colombian and England fans were mixed could get away with anything. It is sad would be coming and were naturally good hosts. As England had won two together and at whistle a few scuffles to think that what I and the world saw of sceptical when I said none due to the games, we already knew we were staying broke out. However, after the emotion Russia is not the daily reality for Russian preventative measures taken in the UK. for at least another week, which meant a of extra time and then penalties there citizens. I always feel exposed when I say there call home to explain I wouldn’t be back were handshakes and commiserations will be no hooligans travelling and it is as quickly as first thought. The final group between the two sets of fans. We were highly unlikely there will be trouble but match against Belgium was in Kaliningrad, back to the airport for a flight to Samara that was the situation throughout the a small Russian enclave on the Baltic and back on the banks of the River Volga. World Cup in Russia. The match passed coast by Lithuania and Poland – a Russian This was a quarter-final match against off without incident except for a plague of ‘Gibraltar’. Headlines suggesting ‘hordes’ Sweden. If your team won this match and got to the semi-final you would be staying until the end of the World Cup – either in the final or a third place play-off. We were working with Swedish police officers and it was clear when their team lost, knowing they would be going home, they weren’t The officers in Volgograd were very welcoming and that disappointed! Meanwhile, after a immediately put us at our ease, showing us around the quick swim in the Volga River, we packed stadium and fanzone and advising us their local hooligans up and flew back to Moscow for the World Cup semi-final against Croatia. We had met the chief of police and been told to behave. set off to the Luzhniki Stadium supporting some 12,000 England fans, all hoping for

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t’s been two years since I traded graduates, when I look back on the welcome was incredibly warm, though it Chesterfield. I was taken quite by surprise I in my Oxford gown for a pair of variety and richness of my experiences I occasionally felt like cheating when the when a gentleman interrupted my first well-worn Dr. Martens and my mother’s feel reassured that there is nothing else audience appeared to be won around song to ask if I knew Wonderwall – a old Peugeot 208. I’ve scrubbed floors, I would rather be doing. prior to any note having been played. I timely reminder that life has both peaks poured pints, been commissioned for One of the things I love most about began with a rooftop show in downtown and troughs. an ill-fated tech start-up, and had the my life and what I do is the opportunity Chicago (followed, of course, by a It is with troughs in mind that I will pleasure of documenting the condition to travel and meet new people. From Chicago deep-dish pizza) and towards spend the last couple of weeks of of central London’s bus shelters high society at Ronnie Scott’s in London the end of my tour ended up playing one November touring for the first, (and (a personal highlight). But I’ve also to middle-aged punks in Southampton, I of my favourite shows to date in a packed hopefully not last), time in Belgium and travelled the world as a musician and have sampled a great many of Britain’s furniture warehouse in Philadelphia. (I the Netherlands. After having spent so songwriter. micro-cultures. And, more to the point, was less keen on the post-show Philly much of 2018 on foreign soil, the threat A career in music was something I’d perfected perhaps the most valuable Cheesesteak.) of perplexing if not hostile environments wanted since being a shy school girl trick of the trade, to quieten and After experiencing such highs in the on both sides of the Atlantic is especially with a very guilty pleasure for karaoke, engross an unruly crowd that is not yet US, returning to the UK took a little getting daunting. I am grateful to have been able (Daniel Bedingfield’s If You’re Not The an audience. Practice makes perfect as used to. Whilst still in the throws of my to take advantage of all the opportunities One if you’d really like to know). It was they say. reverse-culture shock hangover, I played that have come my way and am excited, a path I was determined to follow after After a year multi-tasking various jobs a small pub gig in my native (and beloved) no matter what, for what 2019 brings. graduation, even with the understanding and gigs in London, I decided earlier that I would have to explain to various this year that I needed to dedicate more enthusiastic family members why I of my time to music. Since then, there would not be following in the footsteps have been undeniable highlights, flying of fellow PPE alumnus, David Cameron. to Nashville where I was surrounded (There were some fairly compelling by the music industry and was able reasons.) to record my first single,Big Blue Sky, Life as a musician is highly rewarding, in April with a group of truly talented but it throws you back on your musicians. I returned from a second inner resources, your creativity and trip to Nashville in October, having determination. It can also be incredibly recorded a new collection of songs to isolating trying to forge a life and a be released in early 2019. career in an industry previously alien I’m happy to go on record and and especially so to many of my friends say that country music was never and family. Whilst the idea of career something I was particularly swept away progression is nowhere near as tangible by prior to visiting Nashville (excepting for me as for many fellow Hertford of course the odd Johnny Cash number – Folsom Prison Blues is an unequivocal banger). But, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the country music capital of the world was so much more than the somewhat clichéd Honky Tonk Highway. Nashville is an amazingly One of the things I love diverse city where everyone seems to most about my life and what know each other and so many are also picking their way along unconventional I do is the opportunity to career paths. Music City proved itself to travel and meet new people. be a remarkable networking hub, full of transplants and natives alike, all of whom From high society at Ronnie seem to have a toe in the industry. Scott’s in London to middle- I also had the opportunity in aged punks in Southampton September to sample some American audiences for the first time. The

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uring my last year at Manchester ceased tolling each evening. One had Reminiscences D Grammar School I competed for to be college before 12 midnight – if not scholarships. After a competition at one had to explain why to the Dean or Oxford, I was awarded a Baring Open Principal the next day – not the best way of a Hertford Science Scholarship at Hertford College. to draw attention to oneself! With this, I was able to get a Manchester Very early on I was nabbed by the Physicist: Education Committee Scholarship and Captain of Boats and persuaded to a Kitchener Scholarship (for children of join the college boat club, despite my George Lawson Pickard, officers killed in WWI). In the summer contention that I had never rowed before. MBE (1913-2007) of 1932, I had to cram Latin, because a This involved turning out to practice prerequisite for entrance to Oxford was every afternoon except Sunday. I found ‘Latin, Greek or Sanskrit’. (In later years I myself in the First Torpid (clinker built often wished that I had taken both Latin eight) in my first Hilary term and then in and Greek regularly in school, but there the college First Eight (best boats) in wasn’t time with French and German as Trinity (1933). Each college had a barge compulsory for Science.) stationed permanently at the finish stretch I went up to Oxford for the Michaelmas of the course. These provided changing term in 1932. My rooms (sitting room and rooms for the crews and viewing stands bedroom) were in the main quad, ground for visitors during races. The women’s floor at the corner of New College Lane colleges only had punts and canoes – these rooms were later used in the in those days. The thought of women first episode of the TV film Brideshead rowing crews was never considered Revisited. The rooms in college were when we were up at Oxford! arranged in ‘staircases’ with rooms But there were other things beside opening to left and right, and each had sports. The first year was taken up with a ‘scout’ who looked after your rooms, lectures to prepare for Mathematical made the bed, and brought up coal for Moderations in June 1933 as a the small fire which was the only source prerequisite for Physics in the following of heat. the table were solid silver. Two important two years. These were fairly large classes Breakfast and dinner were taken in Hall non-academic members of the college and there was little interaction between and one had to wear a gown for dinner. staff were the Porter and Major-Domo undergraduates – we just arrived for a The first scholar to arrive for dinner had to who checked you into Hall. Both had lecture, sat through it and then dispersed. sit at the head table for undergraduates incredible memories and learned the One met one’s tutor one-on-one for an and say grace in Latin to start the meal. My names of the freshmen in only a couple hour or so every week to discuss one’s limit was Benedictus benedicat. One had of weeks. The Porter, who occupied success or otherwise with the task he had to dine in Hall at least five times a week. his lodge at the college entrance gate, set the previous week. At the end of each There were a number of rules about what was primarily responsible for checking term there were ‘responsions’ when one one could talk about, such as no more people in and out, distributing mail, taking had to appear before the senior members than ten words in a foreign language, messages, keeping visitors to the proper of the college for a progress review. As the name of a living woman, etc. If one hours and closing the gate at 9.10pm, my tutor in the first year was Dr Ferrar, a transgressed one might be ‘sconced’ by fining you after 11pm, or reporting you if Fellow of the college, he reported on me having to drink a four quart beaker of beer. you returned after midnight. on these occasions. If one managed to do so, the sconcer The first academic formality was to When I went up for my second year had to pay, if not you had to pay and the ‘matriculate’ in the Sheldonian Theatre in Michaelmas 1933, the first thing I did beaker continued around the table until when one officially became a member was shift my room in college from the empty. I managed to down a sconce once of the University, although only a junior ground floor one where people arriving and spent the rest of the evening floating member in statu pupillari. One was after midnight tended to climb in through about a foot above the ground. All the required to wear a cap and gown to a window. (It was considered unsporting ‘silver’ in Hall really was silver, some quite lectures and any other official functions to lock one’s windows!) I moved to the old, and the sconces and other items on and when outside college after 9.10pm, top storey in the New Building over the when Great Tom at Christ Church

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Bridge of Sights across New College twice at another woman. I had no need commoners only one or two, but the University Museum, which were Lane. One got an earful of the bells of to as I had Lilian as my first and only graduate students had to find their own empty in the evenings. I can’t remember New College all day but they stopped girlfriend. lodgings. In Michaelmas 1935, I went up anything of the driving test. From then on from midnight to about 7am. I tried to join the University Air Squadron to Oxford as a graduate this time, but still I frequently drove down to Winchester at In Michaelmas, 1933, we started in 1934 but was not accepted – I suspect subject to University regulations about the weekend to visit Lilian. Physics in the Clarendon and Electrical that you had to have gone to a public wearing gowns, etc, and limitations on I completed my DPhil in October 1937 laboratories with both lectures and school to be acceptable for flying. They drinking in pubs, but being in digs, there with a dissertation on ‘Some properties laboratories there. (No gowns in the did allow me to take the ground school was no regulation about being in by of matter at very low temperatures’ (Pa, science area thank goodness.) We were lectures and I came out top in all of them. midnight. Lilian started working for her Ce, Hg & Na), and a quantitative analysis a much smaller group than during the I expect that if I had been in the OUAS I’d Oxford Diploma in Teaching. I started of the magnetic method of cooling and previous year, about ten men and four have been posted to flying duties as soon in the Clarendon Lab as an ‘apprentice’ the specific heat of helium below 1o women – quite a high proportion of as the war started and it is unlikely that I’d to the mysteries of low- temperature K, having had a friendly oral exam by women for those days. The small group have survived the war. Instead I joined the physics and could look down on the Professors Lindemann and N F Mott. The and the lab sessions meant that there OU Officers Training Corps and paraded mere undergraduates, although in fact it experiments needed many 36 hours or was much more opportunity for personal for three years and went to summer was looking up because we were on the more of continuous measurements at contact. This was when I first met Lilian camps and got the full qualifications to go ground floor and they on the upper floor. ten-minute intervals and so I got used to Perry. It was not ‘love at first sight’ as into the army. I learned how to liquefy helium as a basis sleeping in five-minute stretches. After we were all in a novel environment Hertford had no science dons at that for making measurements of properties that I joined R V Jones in experiments and were busy for weeks getting used time so I was farmed out to a succession of some metals at temperatures below regarding the detection of aircraft by to the routines in the two labs and to of physics graduates as tutors who did 10K. their heat radiation. I remember spending the instructors. However, being in a little to promote my knowledge of physics. I was not challenged for the college long periods in almost total darkness small group we inevitably mixed in labs Responsions were now held each term in sculls and so was considered to continue in the attics of the Clarendon growing and lectures. Perry and I became an the labs, and consisted of a three-hour to hold the cup for the third time. crystals of AgCl for lenses (as it is more acknowledged ‘pair’ socially though session in which one was faced with a Technically, this meant I could retain the transparent to infrared than glass but we were not lab partners at any time. page of wild questions related to the cup permanently. But, of course, I would would be darkened by light). He was Given names were not generally used lectures that one should have attended then have had to present a new cup doing this work for the Air Ministry and so at that time, in college or elsewhere, but during the term. One that I remember for continued competition. As I couldn’t I was taken onto ministry staff as a Junior I can’t imagine that between ourselves was something like ‘a meteor is observed afford this I just re-presented the cup to Scientific Officer. In 1938, Jones went I continued to address her as ‘Perry’ first at an elevation of ox and flames out the club. to the Admiralty Research Laboratory for very long. The thing that brought us at yo – calculate its speed of entry into In January 1936, I went with an OUOTC and I was posted to the Royal Aircraft together was that we were both in that the atmosphere’. For such questions contingent to help line the route in Establishment in Farnborough as a same Physics class – what caused us one might not be expected to provide a Windsor Castle for the funeral of King Scientific Officer at £275 per year. to be mutually attracted is a mystery. At precise answer but to demonstrate that George V. We spent several days any rate, from that time on I never looked one had a reasonable idea about how to practicing various drills such as ‘Rest George Pickard and Lilian Perry married attack the problem, and the more of such on your arms reversed’, which is only on 26 April 1938. After war service in problems that one attacked reasonably, practiced immediately before such an weapons research, for which he was the better. event. I remember the Sergeant-Major awarded the MBE, George Pickard I did some coaching of junior crews telling us that when we got to Windsor emigrated to Canada, where for many during the year but did not row regularly. (by bus) there would be tea and buns for years he was Director of the Institute of I did find a little time to win the college us, and then he stressed ‘go easy on the Oceanography at the University of British sculls for the second time, although I felt tea because there will be no falling out’. Columbia, receiving many awards and Hertford had no science the lack of practice. We were lined up for more than three honours for his work. Finals were in June 1935, when I got hours. dons at that time so I was a First. I was accepted for the DPhil and Lilian completed her Teaching Diploma The Editor of the Magazine is grateful farmed out to a succession of obtained a Department of Scientific in June 1936 and began teaching in to George Pickard’s daughter Dr Ann physics graduates as tutors and Industrial Research graduate Winchester. By this time I had bought a McAfee for permission to publish this scholarship for two years. In the summer, very old Austin Seven ‘tourer’, i.e. rag-top, extract from his memoirs, which are part who did little to promote my I cycled from Manchester to Oxford to for about £10 from the college Porter, who of a recent donation by Dr McAfee to knowledge of physics. look for digs. Scholars were entitled to showed me the essentials and left me to the college archives. (See the Archivist’s three undergraduate years in college, teach myself to drive in the roads around report in this issue.)

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1964 REUNION 1966 REUNION Reunions At the Hertford Society summer meeting in June 2017, it dawned upon four contemporaries of matriculation year Marriages & 1964 – those who graduated in 1967/8 – that their degree had been conferred Obituaries 50 years ago. It was a no-brainer to decide that a golden jubilee celebration was in order. Roger Sherman drew a not particularly short straw to organise the subsequent dinner, which was held in the Principal’s Lodgings on 12 January 2018. 15 graduates, each aged From left to right: over 70, accepted and the result was David Pratt, Richard Harington, Robin an outstanding evening – Hertford’s Bynoe, Chris Morle, Mike Thorne, Kevin catering and service remains quite Benfield, Tim Ross impeccable – with the air, to quote Tom Lehrer, ‘soggy with nostalgia’. Each MARRIAGES diner was invited to provide an oral Alice Goldman (History & Modern synopsis of his last 50 years, providing Languages 2011) and Edmund Whitehead stories of varying adventure, travel and (Music 2011), married in the chapel at reminiscence. The number of air miles Hertford College on 8 September 2018. covered by the 15 present must provide some sort of record. After dinner, most of PROPOSAL those capable of walking then repaired In October 2017, Rajay Naik proposed to to the college bar (thank you to the Chandni Shah (Jurisprudence 2008) in lodge porters for giving us entry cards the Hall. – we could scamper unimpeded over the bridge in our day) where a collective intake of student breath greeted us, as we raising the average age by some 350%. An outstanding evening.

Looking forward to doing it again in 2028 (D.V.)

Roger Sherman (Modern Languages 1964)

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OBITUARIES AND DEATHS 1957 Jeanine Balhetchet, Lecturer in spent in a country under occupation. We record with regret the following Philip Stevens Modern Languages Her memories crystallised around a deaths of alumni, tutors and friends, few witnessed incidents which came to listed in order to the date of matriculation. 1958 symbolise in their distillation, the human Use of an asterisk (*) indicates that an Brian Hunter (*) condition itself – the paralysis of fear, obituary follows; we are most grateful to Peter Yorke the frenzy of mob reprisal, the act of those who have supplied this material individual courage under pressure. 1959 Intellectually, Jeanine was French. Fellow & Tutor in Modern Langauges George Smart (*) She loved the rules, the precision and and Philology, 1985-2003 sound of the French language. She Dr Roger Pensom 1961 loved the rigours of Racinian classicism, Malcolm Davies the imaginative amplitude of Proust, the Fellow & Tutor in Geography, 1990-2012 philosophical challenge of Camus. But Dr Paul Coones 1962 culturally ‘home’ was Oxford where she David Hartley came first to teach French at the Oxford Lecturer in Modern Languages, High School for Girls, to marry and have 1992-2003 1967 two children, then to teach language Jeanine Balhetchet (*) John Abrahams and literature as an external tutor and lecturer at various Oxford colleges. 1942 1969 Temperamentally, she preferred to Basil Lord John Bradley remain an outsider, skirting the fringes with a light collegiate footprint. But 1946 1971 in tutorials her focus was total, her Richard Powell Geoffrey Carr (*) transmission and engagement with Some years ago, strolling through Soho ideas electrifying. Learning of her death, 1948 1976 on one of my mother’s very rare visits Cathy Slater, one of her sixth form Fergus Bateson Robin Cranmer to London, we heard a voice call ‘Mrs students, and later colleague at LMH and Balhetchet, hello!’. A young woman friend, wrote, ‘Jeanine challenged us to 1949 1979 rushed to greet her French tutor from think differently, and made literature a John Nottingham (*) Lynne Locker Hertford College days, and delving into gateway into new and intriguing worlds.’ her pocket with a magician’s flourish, If asked to play Desert Island Books 1950 1980 she pulled out a well-thumbed copy of and save just the one from the waves, Anthony Stone Jeremy Heywood Flaubert’s Trois Contes – a slim volume Jeanine would haven chosen Camus – admittedly, but hardly light reading. My L’Étranger or perhaps La Peste. 1951 1987 mother beamed and I fully expected There was something about her own Robert Judson Mark Joshi a tutorial on Flaubert’s uses of irony moral self-interrogation, her freedom Richard Williams to ensue right then and there. ‘It’s all from false affect and her compassion, 1996 because of you!’ said her ex-student. which expressed itself in her last years 1953 Victoria Gilhooley It was one of those moments when in a philosophical serenity, a valuing Richard Steele (*) you see a parent as others ‘in the world’ of what is truly important, which found Michael Talbot Friends of Hertford see them. When you measure the its literary distillation in this writer and Ralph Vaughan Williams formative influence, the emancipating thinker she admired and understood 1954 Mary Walters power and intellectual legacy of an and constantly re-read. Noel Cooper inspiring teacher. But it was Hertford College, and the Leonard Taylor My mother, Jeanine Balhetchet, was friendships she cherished with faculty born in France in 1927. She studied at colleagues Dr Anne Holmes and Dr 1956 the universities of Lyon and Aix-en- Roger Pensom, with which Jeanine had Norman MacLeod Provence, reading Classics, and then greatest affinity. The compassionate English. She would sometimes speak commitment to supporting students, the of the war – evoking an adolescence egalitarianism and intellectual values she

Hertford College magazine 2017-18 2017-18 Hertford College magazine 128 Reunions, Marriages & Obituaries AFTER HERTFORD AFTER HERTFORD Reunions, Marriages & Obituaries 129 felt college represented, pleased her. Philosophy and Economics at Hertford at the University of Warwick. They were the values she embodied in College. He also earned a Blue in In 1954, he left Nyeri for a district officer her very essence. hockey. posting in Mbooni, which consisted of Before leaving the army and starting encouraging community-based work Of his professional life, John Sophie Balhetchet at University, he taught the bottom form and helping to develop local schools, at Shrewsbury School, but decided the local court system, health issues, will be remembered most that teaching really was not for him. water supplies and agriculture. In for his involvement in 2002 John Cato Nottingham Nor were the worlds of commerce or 1955, he returned to Oxford to attend to seek a formal apology (PPE 1949) business. Whilst at college and certainly the Second Devonshire course for a Born in Coventry on 25 February influenced by accounts of his father’s further year, which was designed to give and acknowledgement of 1928, John Cato Nottingham was sent career in Africa, John applied to the district officers a chance to digest their the truth from the British to Shrewsbury School to board at a Colonial Service. experiences and read more widely on tender age. His father, Captain Eric Cato In July 1952, after an oral interview relevant practices. In addition, he was government for human Nottingham, awarded the Military Cross at the Colonial Office in London which, under the tutelage of Dame Margery rights atrocities committed during the First World War, was appointed humorously, he told his family he Perham, then at Nuffield College, who during the 1950s in various capacities within the colonial passed by being up-to-date with the was a senior advisor to the Colonial police force in Nigeria, eventually cricket scores listed in The Times that Office and very influential in its future becoming the Police Commissioner. In day, John was offered a position as policy towards independence in Kenya. 1938, he was transferred to be Police a cadet on probation. He attended In 1957, he returned to Kenya and Commissioner in the Gold Coast, now the First Devonshire course at Oxford was posted to Kapsabet, then back to which he had observed first-hand as a Ghana. John’s mother, Mary Brenda University, a colonial service training Nyeri in July 1958, where he stayed for young district officer in Kenya. According Louise (née Newsome), was a member course, consisting of learning Kiswahili two more years, serving temporarily as to Leigh Day, the London-based law firm of a well-known Coventry family who and other skills deemed to be useful district commissioner in 1960. There in the case, his witness statement, sworn were prominent in civic life. in Kenya. However, in October 1952, were further postings in Machakos and in November 2010, helped win the Mau John flourished at Shrewsbury School, a state of emergency was declared in Vihiga and, in July 1962, he moved to Mau veterans’ historic and victorious excelled at sports and was made head Kenya and he was sent out by boat in Nakuru as acting district commissioner, legal action at the Royal Courts of Justice boy. In 1946, whilst at school, he was November 1952 to be a district officer. but resigned three to four months later. in June 2013. conscripted into the British Army where Upon his arrival in Mombasa six weeks In 1964, after time spent writing and John was laid to rest at his home, he served for three years in Northern later, he travelled to Nyeri for his first teaching at Makerere University in Cherry Tree Farm, Redhill, near Limuru, Ireland and Germany in the British Army posting to find that his limited training Uganda, he became a Kenyan citizen. Kiambu County in Kenya on 21 February of the Rhine (BAOR). In 1949, he left the did not prepare him for the disorganised His love of all things literary evolved 2018. He is survived by his wife of 55 army as a lieutenant in the Intelligence chaos, which was the emergency in its and, in 1965, he created East African years, Joyce Muthoni (née Waciuma), Corps and enrolled under a scholarship initial stages. Publishing House, initially with André and his children Susan, Jacqueline, to Oxford University to study Politics, John would later co-author with Carl Deutsch Ltd, publishers in London, and Brenda, Fiona and Christopher. His Rosberg, an American academic and then subsequently on his own in the son Richard Cato Waciuma Nottingham pioneer in the study of African politics, 1970s with Transafrica Press. He left predeceased him. the seminal work, The Myth of ‘Mau an impressive legacy in Kenyan and Mau’: Nationalism in Kenya in 1967. African publishing. For outstanding, or Thanks to Susan Nottingham for this Written from his personal experience in distinguished, services rendered to obituary, which also appeared in The Nyeri, it sought to chronicle the rational his adopted nation, John was awarded Salopian Magazine. He attended the First causes that led to the Mt Kenya people the Order of the Grand Warrior by the Devonshire course at Oxford taking up arms. government of Kenya. He retired from Richard Steele This book would be the inspiration for publishing rather reluctantly at the onset (Forestry 1953) University, a colonial service such work as the Pulitzer Prize winning, of Alzheimer’s in 2014. Dick was born in Moulmein on 26 training course, consisting Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Of his professional life, John will be May 1928. He and his sister left Burma Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, by Professor remembered most for his involvement when he was seven years old to go to of learning Kiswahili and Caroline Elkins at Harvard University, in 2002 to seek a formal apology and boarding school at Ashburton Grammar other skills deemed to be and Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty acknowledgement of the truth from the in Devon where he became head boy. useful in Kenya. War in Kenya and the End of Empire, by British government for human rights After doing his national service in the 6th Professor David M Anderson, currently atrocities committed during the 1950s, Airborne Division of the Royal Artillery,

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combination of skill and fitness, wearing two-day reunions they held together down his opponents, even though he with wives and partners. Through these, smoked to suppress his appetite and they got to know May, Brian’s second At Oxford, he concentrated on boxing, gained his half- stay at middleweight. wife, who was his great help-mate for Brian graduated with a Second in three decades. Brian and May arranged Blue and elected Captain in 1960. He won most of his 1961. He first joined Dr Beeching, whose one excellent reunion at Miskin Manor fights with a combination of skill and fitness, wearing brief was to restructure British railways. near Cardiff. Sadly, around the time of down his opponents, even though he smoked to suppress Brian noted how dedicated most railway his 80th birthday celebration Brian was employees were. For them, it was more diagnosed with terminal cancer that had his appetite and stay at middleweight. than a job. Brian later joined Alcan already spread from his left lung to his in its personnel department in South spine. Wales. He became a family man, with a At his funeral those who knew him daughter and a son, a house, garden, through counselling and tai chi paid and even goats. Sadly, his marriage tribute to his gentleness, kindness stationed mainly in Palestine, Dick went After retirement, Dick sat on failed, but he remained close to Leonie and encouragement in each of his on to study and complete a degree in many boards and committees of and Oliver and took pride in their and, endeavours. Forestry and Botany at Bangor. In 1951, national and international forestry later, his grandchildren’s successes. he applied to join the colonial service and conservation organisations and Meanwhile, Brian was taking courses Obituary by Richard Brown and was posted to Tanganyika. He undertook consultancies all over the in counselling, with the aim of becoming returned briefly in 1953 and 1954 as a world. This included being chairman of self-employed. He gained his diploma in postgraduate in Forestry at Hertford the UK National Committee for IUCN 1992 with distinction, and by 1995 he was George Richard Smart College. Dick spent 12 very happy years from 1980-1991. Dick also took on the both teaching courses in counselling (History 1959) in Tanganyika where he achieved many chairmanship of the southern regional and acting as supervisor for trainees. Richard Smart, who died on 19 March things, including building roads on committee of the National Trust. With the latter he was innovative – 2018, pursued a career in history Mount Kilimanjaro and setting a record as a teacher he was clear, calm and teaching and local history. He taught in with a friend for the fastest time for Dick Steele died on 22 June 2018. very popular with his students. All this, Bedford from 1970 to 2001 at Bedford climbing the mountain. besides building up his own clientele. Teacher Training College, which became In 1963 Dick and his wife Anne returned Mary Pitkethly (née Steele) And there was more. Brian took up tai chi Bedford College of Higher Education to England where Dick took up a post in 1993, became so involved with it that in 1976, and then part of De Montfort as head of the woodland management he obtained accreditation and opened University in 1993. In 1976, he became section at Monks Wood Experimental Brian Hunter his own academy. He also became an Head of the History Department. We Station. In 1972, Dick became Head (PPE 1958) honorary Welshman, cheering their kept in touch through the work of of Terrestrial and Freshwater Life After National Service, spent mostly sporting successes, especially over his students on local archaeological Sciences for the Natural Environmental with the Intelligence Corps in Germany, England! excavations as part of their annual field Research Council in London. Then Brian came up to Hertford on a History As he aged, Brian continued to give courses during the 1970s. In 1982 he in 1978 he moved to the Institute of scholarship, awarded in 1955. He more than he took. He began to visit published a history of Bedford Training Terrestrial Ecology in Cambridge as switched to PPE, sharing his tutorials two care homes to give tai chi classes, College, a pioneering study of one Head of Scientific Services. In 1980, with Ian Gunn, notably in Philosophy adapted to the abilities of the residents of the foremost Frobel colleges, with Dick became the Director General of with the chain-smoking Principal, N and from which they gained great a foreword by Christopher Fry. This the Nature Conservancy Council of R Murphy, and in Economics with the benefit. He joined the Newport ‘Share’ remains the definitive work on the Great Britain where he remained until Bursar, R Ross. Ian credited Brian project, a community-based centre for college. he retired in 1988. During his career, with getting him through Prelims in people from a variety of backgrounds He was instrumental in starting he published more than 40 papers on the Politics paper, while Brian said he and abilities. As well as tai chi, Brian led a National Archive of Memorial woodland ecology and forestry and relied on Ian for his understanding of the centre in gardening projects, which Inscriptions (NAOMI), recognising the nature conservation including editing Economics – obviously a good team. gained the centre awards in 2015, ‘16 rate at which churchyard evidence was Monks Wood: a Nature Reserve Record Brian had been an all-round and ‘17. In the latter year, he joined the being eroded and how local enthusiasts with Colin Welch. He was also a Fellow sportsman at his London school, Share board of trustees. might engage in systematic recording, of both the Institute of Biology and the Buckhurst Hill County High. At Oxford, Since the early 1990s a dozen of something later taken up much more British Institute of Management and a he concentrated on boxing, gained Brian’s Hertford contemporaries had widely by burgeoning family history fellow and past president of the Institute his half-Blue and elected Captain in kept up with each other in bi-annual societies. He was Secretary of the of Foresters. 1960. He won most of his fights with a

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Bedfordshire Historical Record Society routine success in the classroom was instrumental in launching the ‘George’ Geoffrey retained close ties with from 2000-2013, for which he edited rewarded when he was offered a place at ASDA clothing range, having Hertford throughout his life. He enjoyed The Bousfield Diaries: A Middle-Class at Hertford College to read PPE. formulated a plan to bring clothing attending gaudies and helping the Family in Late Victorian Bedford Geoffrey excelled at Hertford, holding to the supermarket chain, emulating college where he could. When his close (2007). Kate Tiller’s review in The Local significant roles within the Business and stores like Walmart in the US. Geoffrey friend and colleague from Hertford, Historian praised his introduction and Economics Society, and latterly through convinced the former CEO of Next, Jonathon Swallow, passed away [see footnoting as ‘taking on the necessary his election as treasurer of the JCR. He George Davies, to introduce the new issue no 97], Geoffrey was instrumental task of recreating the contexts – of received second choice of rooms in his brand of clothing to the supermarket. in setting up the Jonathon Swallow family, household, workplace, chapel, final year, and chose to occupy a room This was a pioneering endeavor. Fund for Additional Welfare Support at town and wider travels – which would on the ground floor, rumoured to have Before this, clothes were not sold in UK Hertford College. The fund is used to have been automatically invoked in the once been used by Evelyn Waugh. supermarkets. top up welfare grants in cases where minds of the diarist and her grown-up Geoffrey spoke about his time In his later career, Geoffrey pursued the regular sum will not be sufficient to children as they looked at the entries.’ at University with an abundance of a number of academic interests, help the student in question. The strong interest in local history and fondness and pride. He adored the including his calling to the bar at the Geoffrey’s passion for academics, the practical involvement of people in comradery with students and tutors alike Middle Temple. food and wine, was matched only by pursuing its research characterised – particularly his relationship with Roger Further to career pursuits, Geoffrey’s the joy that fatherhood brought him. Richard and has now become more Van Norden – whom he admired as a love for food and wine was central to Geoffrey dedicated so much of his life to widespread thanks to the guidance mentor and friend. his life. Some at Hertford will recall mentoring his children, Arabella, Oliver, and enthusiasm of individuals such as After leaving Hertford, Geoffrey him pushing the boundaries of his William and Alistair. himself. commenced his career as an investment role within the JCR by making polite Geoffrey’s time at Hertford was analyst. Naturally, he was drawn to the enquiries to the college chef prior to instrumental in moulding him as a bright Obituary by David Baker (1960) retail sector. dinners. Over the years, he gained an and eccentric character. A photograph His career began to flourish when he encyclopedic knowledge of wine. His of his Hertford College cohort and joined the stockbroking firm Scrimgeour passion for food and wine led to a role portrait of the Bridge of Sighs hung on Geoffrey Carr Kemp-Gee in the mid/late 1970s. His as a Director of Slow Food UK and to his bedroom wall for the entirety of his (PPE 1973) deep understanding of the industry him establishing the Taste Real Food adult life. Geoffrey Stanley Carr, former Treasurer and close relationships with company group. of Hertford College JCR, who is chairmen and CEOs was greatly in With thanks to Arabella Carr. credited with introducing clothing into evidence in companies as diverse as supermarket retail, died this year, aged MFI, ASDA and Next. 66. Under Geoffrey’s leadership, the Geoffrey was born in Grappenhall, Kemp-Gee team led city rankings for the Cheshire. His notable academic ability best part of a decade. and exceptional work ethic were Having firmly established himself as evidenced from an early age at Lymm a retail guru, Geoffrey was approached Grammar School. by the ASDA group in 1987 and Alongside managing the books at appointed Strategy Director. It was his father’s greengrocers – the spark here that Geoffrey achieved his most- that ignited his interest in retail – his famed commercial success. He was

Having firmly established himself as a retail guru, Geoffrey was approached by the ASDA group in 1987 and appointed Strategy Director.

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Nicola Barnes Bodleian library. His next book will be providing the main venue, and Somerville Alumni News (MLitt German 1976) published in the UK and USA in autumn College, which has kindly agreed to host Nicola Barnes (neé Hughes) has just 2018. It is an off-piste experiment that an exhibition of major items connected published her translation of Wolfgang grew into a book based on exploring the with Murdoch. Professor Peter Garrard Hildesheimer: Times in Cornwall. history and life of New Jersey when he (St George’s, University of London) will be was back at Princeton, called Meet you in giving a public lecture on his work on the Aidan Liddle Atlantic City: Travels in Springsteen’s New use of Murdoch’s writings in his research (Literae Humaniores 1997) Jersey. He has been made a Research into Alzheimer’s in the lecture theatre Aidan Liddle is still with the Foreign Associate of the Institute of Orthodox of the Weston Library at 1pm on 12 July. & Commonwealth Office. He was Studies in the University of Cambridge, More information about the conference appointed Ambassador and Permanent and is co-organiser of the Obolensky and other events can be found at this Representative to the Conference on Centenary Exhibition and associated website Disarmament in Geneva in July this academic conference at Christ Church in https://www.chi.ac.uk/humanities/public- year, after four years as Deputy Head September 2019. humanities/literary-and-cultural-narrative/ of Mission at the British Embassy in iris-murdoch-research-centre or by Stockholm. Just before moving, in April, Frances White emailing [email protected]. All are daughter Laura Christine was born, a little (English 1978) welcome, whether long-standing readers sister for Jenny. Frances White (née Brudenell) gained of Murdoch’s work or newcomers to this her PhD at Kingston University London major late-twentieth-century novelist and Paul Manduca on the philosophy and fiction of Iris philosopher.’ (Modern Languages 1973) Murdoch (2010) and is currently a Visiting After going down in 1973, I have had Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Rachel Weiss a long career in the City. For the last the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the (Mathematics 1985) two years I have chaired TheCityUK’s University of Chichester, as well as Editor I founded Rowan Consultancy 20 Advisory Council. TheCityUK is the of the Iris Murdoch Review, Kingston years ago to help people live more industry body which incorporates all University Press and Writer in Residence satisfying lives. We now have a network financial and professional services. I am at Kingston University Writing School. of counsellors, coaches and trainers Chairman of the Templeton Emerging She writes:. delivering services throughout the UK. Markets Investment Trust, of the peer-to- ‘As 2019 marks the centenary of Iris I’ve been given the Points of Light award peer lender Ratesetter, and, since 2012, Murdoch’s birth on 15 July 1919 I would from the Prime Minister in recognition of of the Prudential Group, having been on like to flag up the celebratory activities some of my voluntary work for the charity the board since 2010. planned to take place in Oxford next Menopause Café, a group which hosts year alongside many other events in pop-up events to encourage men and Simon Mason Chichester, Kingston, London, and women of all ages to come together to (Geography 1985) elsewhere. talk about the impact of the menopause Simon Mason was recipient of the World ‘As Miles Leeson, the Director of the on their lives. Meteorological Organisation Commission Iris Murdoch Research Centre, says, The cafés bust myths, tackle taboos for Climatology Outstanding Service “the centenary comes at something of and signposts further support available award. His book, Climate Information crossroads for the Murdoch scholarship. locally. This year, the group has become for Public Health Action, co-edited with After suffering a decline in popularity a registered charity in Scotland, with Madeleine Thomson, has also just been after her death in 1999 (certainly in the BBC’s Kirsty Wark as patron, and published by Routledge. fictional terms) there is now a resurgence has launched a ‘Menopause Festival’ of interest in her writing and we envisage featuring discussions and support. James Pettifer 2019 being a key year for wider (Editor’s note: The Points of Light (English 1967) recognition of her work.” The central awards recognise outstanding individual James Pettifer continues to teach mostly event of 2019 will be the centenary volunteers, people who are making a post-graduates modern Balkan history at conference to be held in Oxford from 13- change in their community and inspiring St Cross College in Oxford, and is active 15 July. We are delighted to be working others.) as adviser and donor in building up the with St Anne’s College, which will be modern Balkan history collection in the

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Alan Barlow (DPhil Economics 1971) My Profiting from Integrity: How CEOs can deliver superior profitability and be relevant to society was published by Routledge, 2018. The evidence shows that when a company acts with heightened integrity, this directly results in superior profitability – as much as 23-38% over a ten-year period when compared to peer companies.

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