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18 July 2023

St Hugh’s Post Graduate research student throws new light on Elizabeth I
St Hugh's Post Graduate Research Student, Helena Rutkowska is working with the British Library using a new state of the art technique to uncover passage of Camden's Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth I's reign. Helena's research is part of a Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Oxford in partnership with the British Library and Open University, and it represents a significant finding in early modern historical scholarship. Camden's Annals is one of ...
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11 July 2023
St Hugh’s College Visitor, The Rt Hon Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood has died
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of our Visitor, The Rt Hon Lord Simon Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (9 April 1937-7 July 2023). Lord Brown...
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10 July 2023
Final-year student of French at St Hugh’s ranked second in a UK-Ireland creative writing contest
Congratulations to Maddy Bellucci, a final-year student of French at St Hugh's, who has been ranked second in a UK-Ireland creative writing contest at...
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10 July 2023
St Hugh’s welcomes record number of students to Open Days
St Hugh's College hosted its busiest Open Days ever in June, welcoming prospective applicants from far and wide!  Our personal statement and admissio...
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20 June 2023
27th Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture held at St Hugh’s
On Tuesday 30 May, we were delighted to welcome to College Professor Fabrizio Nevola, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of...
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20 June 2023
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow appointed a CBE in The King’s Birthday Honours List 2023
Congratulations to St Hugh's Honorary Fellow and Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, Professor Alison Noble CBE...
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13 June 2023
A new Bodleian exhibition: “Gifts and Books” curated by St Hugh’s Fellow opens on Friday 16 June 2023
A major exhibition curated by Tutor in English, Dr Nicholas Perkins, will open on Friday 16 June at the Weston Library in Oxford (the Bodleian’s spe...
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7 June 2023
St Hugh’s Principal is first woman to be appointed Lord Clerk Register of Scotland
His Majesty the King, on the recommendation of the First Minister of Scotland, has appointed Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE PC KC FRSE, as the new Lord C...
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7 June 2023
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology awarded book prize by Society of Africanist Archaeologists
Professor Peter Mitchell’s latest book African Islands: A Comparative Archaeology, has been awarded the Society of Africanist Archaeologis...
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1 June 2023
Debbie Quare, St Hugh’s Librarian from 1980 to 2009, has died
Generations of members of College will be saddened to learn that Debbie Quare, Librarian from 1980 to 2009, died on 30 May. She had been seriously ill...
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1 June 2023
St Hugh’s Principal meets alumni community in New York
In April, St Hugh's Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini, accompanied by Bruce Lawrence, Director of Development and Jenny Wood, Head of Alumni Relations &...
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24 May 2023
Screening of ‘Happening’, by Audrey Diwan
9 June 2023, 7pm at the Maison Française d'Oxford (2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford) Admission is free. Registration req...
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24 May 2023
Exhibition ‘Annie Ernaux, Nobel Laureate: Class, Gender, and Life-Writing’
8 June-1 December 2023 Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm at the Library of St Hugh's College library@st-hugh...
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24 May 2023
International Colloquium ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing, Politics’
9 June 2023 9.30am-4.35pm at St Hugh's College, Oxford Admission is free. All welcome*
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24 May 2023
Screening of ‘The Super 8 Years’, followed by a Q&A with director David Ernaux-Briot
8 June 2023, 4pm at the Curzon Oxford Cinema, Westgate Admission is free Registration required:
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18 May 2023
We saw the crowns placed on the King and Queen: heads of Oxford houses in key role at the Coronation
St Hugh's Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini and Master of University College, Baroness Valerie Amos took part in the Coronation ceremony on Saturday 6 M...
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18 May 2023
St Hugh’s welcomes alumna and barrister, Amal Clooney, back to College
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10 May 2023
St Hugh’s launches art exhibition for Oxfordshire Arts Week
St Hugh’s is delighted to announce it will be hosting a special exhibition as part of the Oxfordshire Art Weeks ...
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10 May 2023
St Hugh’s announces winner of Avril Bruten Award 2023
Congratulations to Eliza Browning (MSt English [1900-present]) who has won this year’s Avril Bruten Creative Writing Award for her story "Jeanne D...
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5 May 2023
Discover the tradition behind The Coronation ceremony with St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in History, Professor George Garnett
There is a long tradition of 'kings', but as St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in History, Professor George Garnett who is a leading expert on coronation trad...
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1 May 2023
The Colin Matthew Fund (2023) is open to applications.
This fund offers travel awards for historical research to undergraduate and graduate members of the University of Oxford. Professor Colin Ma...
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26 April 2023
St Hugh’s Fellow in French in Conversation with Constance Debré
Constance Debré is a former lawyer and a contemporary French writer with an interest in life writing and questions of ge...
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20 April 2023
Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing celebration event
We are delighted to be celebrating the annual Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing next week. There were over twenty entries this year for the Awar...
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20 April 2023
25 Kentish state schools sign up to St Hugh’s College, Oxford outreach tour: “Kent Coast Run Volume 2″
St Hugh’s College Outreach Manager, Lena Sorochina, will run over 170km and deliver outreach talks and workshops at 25 state schools in Kent between...
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18 April 2023
St Hugh’s undergraduate Leo Tidmarsh is finalist of LGBTQ+ Undergraduate of the Year Awards 2023
Congratulations to our French and Arabic third-year undergraduate Leo Tidmarsh who has made it to the finals of the LGBTQ+ Undergraduate of the Year A...
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11 April 2023
The 27th Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture: “The Material Culture of Public Space in Renaissance Italy “
Join us on Tuesday 30 May 2023 for the 27th Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture: "The Material Culture of Public Space in Renaissance It...
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5 April 2023
St Hugh’s Tutorial Fellow in Biology appointed Visiting Professor at the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand
Professor Rachel Tanner, Tutorial Fellow in Biology, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand, where she ...
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5 April 2023
St Hugh’s hosts Ukraine Summit 2023: “European Horizons for Ukraine”
On Monday 13 March 2023, more than 250 current and former representatives of the Ukrainian and British governments, international organisations, acade...
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21 March 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Alexander Lowrie
In the fifth episode of our #HumansofStHughs series, second-year Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) student, Alex tells us about his experience ...
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16 March 2023
St Hugh’s Undergraduate named in Blue Boat for Lightweight Boat Race 2023
Congratulations to our 4th year Biology Undergraduate Indigo Buckler Weerdmeester who has been named in the Blue Boat for Lightweight Boat Race on Mon...
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15 March 2023
St Hugh’s Fellow leads fossil study to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery
A large-scale fossil study, led by College Fellow, Professor Erin Saupe, has revealed the origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years...
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