Somerville Choir releases advent calendar
Following a highly successful recording of Duruflé’s Requiem and Milford’s Mass for Five Voices, the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, has released its second commercial CD on the Stone Records......
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Fab Four through to last 8 of University Challenge
Somerville’s University Challenge team made it through Round Two on Monday, beating the University of York’s team by 240 points to 135. Their subjects ranged from polemical writings to parasites,......
BBC2 drama on invention of radar was produced by Somerville alumnus
Castles in the Sky, a drama that recounts the story of a team of British scientists working to invent radar in the run-up to the Battle of Britain, will be......
Richard Ashdowne speaks to BBC Radio Oxford on completion of Latin Dictionary
Richard Ashdowne, a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, has been interviewed by BBC Radio Oxford following the completion, after 100 years, of the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin from......
Nicola Blackwood MP talks to New Statesman
Nicola Blackwood MP (2005, Music) has been interviewed by the New Statesman about the University of Oxford, laws on child exploitation, and her own reasons for going into politics. The......
The Chemistry Between Them
Adam Ganz, Reader in Screenwriting at Royal Holloway University of London, has written a radio play for the BBC about Dorothy Hodgkin and Margaret Thatcher which is scheduled to be......
Somerville Fellow in Honduras – An Ecological Murder Mystery
Professor Alex David Rogers, Ernest Cook Fellow Operation Wallacea (OpWall) is an education and conservation organisation providing rich learning experiences for school and university students whilst also working to conserve......
Report on the Somerville Choir 2014 tour to the US
In summer 2014 Somerville College Choir toured the US. Here Choirmaster David Crown reports back. We’d made it! This, to my mind is a feat when touring with any group.......
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, 1.10.1912 – 10.8.2014
Members of the Somerville community will be saddened to learn that Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw (1931, Mathematics) died on 10th August 2014 at the age of 101. Dame Kathleen read......
Dictionary of Medieval Latin – begun 1913, completed 2013
The British Academy completed the final part of its Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, bringing the project to an end under its final editor Dr Richard Ashdowne, a......