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13 June 2024

New edition of book written by St Hugh’s alumna, Mary Renault, to be published
We are delighted to announce that a stunning new hardback edition of The Persian Boy written by novelist and alumna Mary Renault (English Language and Literature, 1925), will be published on Thursday 18 July 2024 by Virago Press. The Persian Boy is narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian who becomes the lover and most faithful servant of Alexander the Great. After graduating from St Hugh’s in 1928, Mary worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels which were contempora...
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13 June 2024
Test-of-time award for article co-authored by St Hugh’s Fellow
The 2006 article titled "Reachability Analysis of Controlled Discrete-Time Stochastic Hybrid Systems", which appeared in the Proceedings of the "Hybri...
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12 June 2024
St Hugh’s Chapel Choir music recital
On Saturday 25 May the Chapel Choir went to St Andrew’s Church Linton Road to hold a lunchtime music recital, part of a wider day for Donors and Alu...
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11 June 2024
Fragments of a giant of European Modernism
On 25 April our recently retired German tutor, Tom Kuhn, broadcast an edition of ‘In Our Time’, hosted by Melvyn Bragg and devoted to the life and...
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5 June 2024
Second annual PalEvo-PalMeso lecture takes place at St Hugh’s
The 2nd Annual PalEvo-PalMeso Lecture, entitled "Geoanthropology - Long-term Human Interactions with the Earth System," took place on Wednesday 8 May ...
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4 June 2024
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow appointed as non-political life peer in the House of Lords
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow,
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4 June 2024
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in History is BBC Radio 4 panelist
On Sunday 2 June, St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in History, Professor George Garnett, was a panelist on BBC Radio 4's "In our Time" hosted by Melvyn Bragg...
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3 June 2024
Second edition of The Archaeology of Southern Africa by St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology is published
Professor Peter Mitchell, Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology, has undertaken research on the archaeology of southern African hunter-gatherers for 40 years...
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3 June 2024
St Hugh’s undergraduate student awarded fencing half blue
Congratulations to St Hugh's undergraduate student Will Osborne (Mathematics, 2021) who was awarded a half blue for competing in the recent Varsity ma...
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31 May 2024
An Evening with Natalka Vorozhbyt – Visiting Fellow, St Hugh’s College
On Thursday 13 June, 5pm to 7pm, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, with the Faculty of English and St Hugh's College, will co-host an even...
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30 May 2024
St Hugh’s graduate student co-authors book about St Albans Abbey
St Hugh's graduate student, Meg Kirkpatrick (DPhil Archaeology) has co-authored a book entitled: St Albans Abbey: The Excavation of the Chapter Ho...
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24 May 2024
Support St Hugh’s Boat Club in Summer Eights 2024
This week, St Hugh’s Boat Club have been racing the main annual ‘bumping races’ regatta on the River Isis in Christchurch Meadow. After a succes...
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22 May 2024
Learn the art of Sattriya dance at St Hugh’s lecture-demonstration
St Hugh's graduate student, Oonmona Das (MPhil Global and Area Studies) will be holding a lecture-demonstration on Sattriya dance on Wednesday...
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20 May 2024
Alumni Business Breakfast: “Think like a Brand”
We were delighted to welcome our alumni to a recent Business Breakfast at the Museum of Brands in London, where our two distinguished speakers: alumna...
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13 May 2024
DPhil student of St Hugh’s Fellow awarded annual prize of Society for French Studies
Many congratulations to DPhil student Hannah Scheithauer (Queen's) who has been awarded the annual R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize by the Society f...
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8 May 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics
Congratulations to St Hugh's Fellow by Resolution in Physics, Dr Jack Miller (Phy...
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2 May 2024
The Colin Matthew Fund 2024 is open to applications
This fund offers travel awards for historical research to all undergraduate and graduate members of the University of Oxford. Professor Coli...
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2 May 2024
Alumna and Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, Professor Wendy James FBA, has died
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of alumna Professor Wendy James (Geography, 1959). Before becoming a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at ...
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18 April 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow is co-author of research which uncovers remarkable archive of ancient human brains
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, including St Hugh's Fellow and Tutor in Palaeobiology, Professor Erin Saupe, has cha...
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15 March 2024
St Hugh’s Fellow leads new study revealing insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change
A new study by a team of researchers at the University of Oxford led by St Hugh's Tutor in Palaeobiology, Professor Erin Saupe, has used the fossil re...
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13 March 2024
St Hugh’s students part of winning Oxford team in Rugby League Varsity Match
Congratulations to the Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC) and our two St Hugh's team members, undergraduate Ben Hughs (Economics and Manage...
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12 March 2024
St Hugh’s announces winner of Avril Bruten Award 2024
Congratulations to first year graduate student, Sarah Marshall (DPhil, Classical Languages and Literature) who has won this year’s Avril Bruten Crea...
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7 March 2024
St Hugh’s College to host all expenses paid Admissions Workshop
In an aim to demystify Oxford and the admissions process, St Hugh's College is hosting a two-day admissions workshop on 25 and 26 March on behalf of t...
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7 March 2024
International Women’s Day 2024: Poem published for the centenary of St Hugh’s Principal Eleanor Jourdain’s death
On the eve of International Women's Day, St Hugh's is celebrating the life of one of its most influential women in the College's history, Eleanor Jour...
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6 March 2024
International Women’s Day: St Hugh’s celebrates the conducting career of alumna, Alice Farnham
On the eve-eve of International Women's Day S...
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29 February 2024
St Hugh’s postgraduate student selected to play for the Oxford Blues at The Varsity Matches
Congratulations to St Hugh's postgraduate student Michele Szegda (MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology) who has been selected to play for the Oxford ...
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29 February 2024
St Hugh’s Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE PC KC FRSE, presents findings of Inquiry
On Thursday 29 February, the Home Secretary laid before Parliament the first report of the Angiolini Inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of Sa...
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27 February 2024
St Hugh’s hosts an evening of Cavafy with Oxford Professor of Poetry
On Tuesday 20 February, St Hugh’s College welcomed Oxford Professor of Poetry, A E Stallings (pictured on the right), to preside over an evening ded...
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21 February 2024
St Hugh’s women footballers make it to Cuppers Final
Congratulations to five St Hugh's ladies who have made it to the Cuppers Finals as part of Summertown Women's Football team:  Carrie O’Toole (Engli...
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20 February 2024
Time is racing towards Town & Gown 2024
The next Town and Gown will take place on Sunday 12 May 2024 and we would love members of our Col...
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19 February 2024
St Hugh’s launches 2024 online lecture series: ‘Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present’
We recently launched our 2024 online lecture series with our opening session, ‘Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present’, presented by Prof...
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