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9 February 2023

Professor Anne Hudson’s legacy to fund graduate scholarship at St Hugh’s College
St Hugh's is honoured to be one of two Oxford colleges hosting scholarships supported by an extremely generous legacy left to the English Faculty, St Hugh’s and Lady Margaret Hall by our late Honorary Fellow, Professor Anne Hudson. Prof. Hudson studied English at St Hugh’s, matriculating in 1957. She bequeathed £2.6 million for endowing scholarships for graduate students working on medieval English. St Hugh's will hold the Pamela Gradon scholarship, named after one of the college’s most d...
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7 February 2023
St Hugh’s Gardens in Winter by Head Gardener, Ed Reid
It seems strange to be writing this article in what feels like the first proper winter we’ve had in Oxford for a long time with temperatures only ju...
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7 February 2023
St Hugh’s alumna, Rebecca George awarded CBE in New Year Honours 2023
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna, Rebecca George CBE (English Language and Literature, 1980) who has been appointed...
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6 February 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Ben Moisan
In the second of a series of features entitled #HumansofStHughs we hear from undergraduate, Ben Moisan who explains his philosophy for applying to Oxf...
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6 February 2023
The Belcher One-Day Colloquium, “Victorians and Animal Welfare: The Transnational Network in Literature, Culture and Intellectual Thought”
The Belcher One-Day Colloquium will be held at St Hugh's College on Thursday 2 March 2023 and will focus on: "‘Victorians and Animal Welfare: The Tr...
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1 February 2023
Applications now open for St Hugh’s College Teachers’ Residential 2023
Applications are now open for the St Hugh’s Teachers’ Residential 2023. A limited number of places is available on our fully-funded summer school ...
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30 January 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Kimberley Achebo-Awusu
The following article is the first in a series entitled #HumansofStHughs which feature stories written by St Hugh's undergraduate students about their...
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26 January 2023
St Hugh’s Burns Night Celebration 2023
St Hugh's Fellows, students and guests attended a formal dinner on Friday 20 January to celebrate the life and works of Rabbie Burns, the Bard of ...
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20 January 2023
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA: THE JOURNEY OF ONE UKRAINIAN TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY
We were delighted to be able to welcome our first Ukrainian Graduate scholarship holder, Taras Prodaniuk, to St Hugh's at the beginning of Michaelmas ...
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5 January 2023
St Hugh’s Emeritus Fellow, Susan Wood has died
Former colleagues and pupils will be distressed to learn that Susan Wood died on 30 December 2022, aged 97. Her funeral will take place at St Mary Mag...
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6 December 2022
St Hugh’s Archive loans letter to British Library
St Hugh's has loaned a letter written by novelist and alumna Mary Renault (English Language and Literature, 1925) to the British Library for their exh...
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28 November 2022
St Hugh’s Principal presented with Life-Time Achievement Award
We are proud to announce that St Hugh's Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini has been presented with The Herald's "Lifetime Achievement Award" for her outs...
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17 November 2022
St Hugh’s Emeritus Fellow recognised as one of the best female scientists in the world
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9 November 2022
The Lady Ademola Lecture: “Approaching Disability and Race in British Literature 1780-1840”
We were thrilled to be able to welcome Professor Essaka Joshua, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, to St Hugh's on Thursd...
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2 November 2022
St Hugh’s Undergraduate finds 1.8m year old tooth of early human
Congratulations to third year St Hugh's student, Jack Peart (Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020) who found a 1.8m year old Homo erectus mandi...
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25 October 2022
Black History Month 2022: The Lady Ademola Project
The Lady Ademola Project Update by Professor Thomas Cousins, Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences and Tutor for Equality & Diversity...
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13 October 2022
Black History Month: St Hugh’s first Lady Ademola scholarship holder
We were delighted to welcome our first Lady Ademola scholarship holder in 2021, Ndume Ibrahimu, who read for a Master of Studies in Linguistics, Philo...
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13 October 2022
Poetry readings event at St Hugh’s in tribute to alumna, Ruth Bidgood (1922-2022)
The College will be paying tribute to major Welsh poet and alumna Ruth Bidgood (English Language and Literature, 1940) on Tue...
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11 October 2022
Oxford Alumni Choir performs in St Hugh’s Chapel
We were delighted to welcome the Standish Consort, an Oxford Alumni Choir based in Gloucestershire as part of their residency in Oxford. The choir was...
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6 October 2022
Student Stories: Exploring clubs and societies by St Hugh’s student Molayo Ogunde
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6 October 2022
Ruth Bidgood, 20 July 1922-4 March 2022
On National Poetry Day, we remember St Hugh's alumna, Ruth Bidgood (née Jones, English Language and Literature, 1940) who was one of Wales's finest p...
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6 October 2022
St Hugh’s to participate in Oxford’s All-Innovate Ideas Competition 2022-23
St Hugh's College is delighted to be participating in
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29 September 2022
Exhibition extended: Annan Affotey’s “My Complexion”
St Hugh's is delighted to announce that we will be extending the exhibition of Oxford-based artist, Annan Affotey. Due to popular demand, we will cont...
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8 September 2022
A statement from St Hugh’s Principal on the death of Her Majesty The Queen
On behalf of St Hugh's College, our Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini offers her deepest sympathy to The Royal Family on the death of Her Majesty Th...
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4 August 2022
The Lady Ademola Lecture 2021-2022
St Hugh's was honoured to host Sir Geoff Palmer OBE for the 2021-2022 annual Lady Ademola lecture on Thursday 9 June 2022. The lecture was held virtua...
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16 June 2022
Join us at the Belcher Colloquium: Writing Between Empires in the Long Nineteenth Century 
We invite you to join us at St Hugh's College for the Belcher Colloquium entitled, "Writing Between Empires in the Long Nin...
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14 June 2022
Congratulations to Julia Millard, MBE who has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna, Julia Millard (née Lehmann) (History, 1987) who has been awarded an MBE in the Que...
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13 June 2022
St Hugh’s crews celebrate performances at Summer Eights 2022
We were delighted to be able to welcome alumni back to College to celebrate St Hugh's Boat Club's (SHBC) recent successes and to cheer on the crews at...
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13 June 2022
Congratulations to Zoë Billingham, CBE who has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna, Zoë Billingham (PPE, 1983) who has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Hono...
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10 June 2022
St Hugh’s Principal receives personal appointment from The Queen
The Royal Household has made the following announcement this morning: The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint The Right Honourable Dame El...
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7 June 2022
St Hugh’s gardens now 100% organic
Congratulations to our Gardening team who have announced that after a number of years of hard work our gardens are now 100% organic. They have discont...
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