Dr. James Sleigh awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
Somerville Fulford Junior Research Fellow Dr James N. Sleigh has been awarded a four-year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship.......
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Daphne Park listed in Dictionary of National Biography
Former Somerville Principal Daphne Park, most widely-remembered for her work as an intelligence officer during the Cold War, has been entered in the Dictionary of National Biography. The ‘Oxford Dictionary......
Somerville alumni award takes Shakespeare to Italy
The 2013 Alice Horsman Award has enabled alumna Mary Chater (1977, Music) to co-found, together with her husband and an Italian theatre director, Shakespeare in Italy, which stages productions of......
Scaling up – Somerville College Choir
Somerville College choir continues its impressive rise. Today, there are twelve choral scholarships, two CDs out, and foreign tours in the pipeline. We spoke to David Crown about the six......
Somerville Mill Collection in Times Literary Supplement
The John Stuart Mill Collection (above) in the Somerville College Library is the subject of Marginal Mills (paywall), an article in the January 3 edition of the Times Literary Supplement......
New Year Honours
Baroness Onora O’Neill (PPP, 1959) has been made a Companion of Honour in the New Year’s Honours, for services to Philosophy and Public Policy. This outstanding distinction is held by......
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......
Principal and Development Director Visit India
Dr Alice Prochaska and Ms Sara Kalim visited India in December to raise awareness of Somerville’s India project. Highlights of the trip included invitations to the Principal to speak at......
College flag flies at half-mast in honour of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
The Somerville College flag is flying at half-mast today to mark the death of Nelson Mandela, former leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, first President of post-apartheid South......
Penelope Fitzgerald biography series on Radio 4
Part 4 of a series of BBC Radio 4 programmes on the late Penelope Fitzgerald, who studied at Somerville College and won the Booker Prize in 1979, will come to......