Hilary Spurling, Somerville alumna, Honorary Fellow of the College and award-winning biographer of Henri Matisse, has been featured in a documentary about the French artist’s later works. Henri Matisse: A......
Oxford Colleges can look from the outside like monastic retreats and, while this helps to provide strong internal community, it can appear as though they simply wish to evade the......
Two Somervillians were recognised in the New Year’s Honours List while several Somerville alumni and Fellows have received awards or other forms of recognition in 2014 as well. Baroness Onora......
As the campaigning group Liberty turns 80, authors and campaigners have been paying tribute to those who have supported the group’s work down the decades, among them H G Wells,......
Scheduled for release today, Monuments Men tells the story of the Anglo-American team of artists, art historians, museum curators and directors who worked to locate and preserve European monuments, works......
Somerville Junior Research Fellow Dr Máté Nagy has been interviewed by the BBC about his research into canine behaviour. Dr Nagy, the Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville, had found......
Fellow Profile: Simon Kemp, Domus Fellow in French Taking up the position of Schools Liaisons Officer for French at the university was not a move calculated to win Somerville Fellow......
Dr Jonathan Marchini, Somerville Fellow and Tutor in Statistics, has won a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant worth €1.6 million (£1.3 million) to fund two postdoctorate degrees. The......
Somerville College won the first of its two quarter-final bouts in University Challenge on Monday evening, correctly answering questions on Juvenal, the Gini coefficient, Hieronymus Bosch, Go, leading figures in......
A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Autonomous, Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS) is to be run in Oxford thanks with government funding, following an application overseen by Stephen......