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Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor, obscure, dilapidated, ill-favoured, and introspective conservative backwater to an open, outward-looking, financially secure, and academically sound partner in the collegiate university - such rapid transformations being somewhat rare in Oxford.
It is also one of Oxford's youngest colleges and, having been founded only in 1874, ostensibly unsuitable for a book-length history. But behind modern Hertford sits an institutional history reaching back to the thirteenth century and the early days of the university itself, the direct residual legatee of two medieval academic halls (usually precarious, non-corporate licensed student hostels that dominated Oxford's first quarter millenium, providing teaching, accommodation, and the model for later more solidly established endowed colleges) Hart Hall (c. 1280-1740) and Magdalen Hall (c. 1480-1874) and the failed first Hertford College (1740-1816). On a small, intimate but precise scale, Hertford and its precursors map not only the internal history of the university but also the wider social, political, religious and educational settings over seven centuries: the creation of a medieval literate clerisy; sixteenth century humanism, gentrification and Reformation; seventeenth century religious and political upheaval and Civil War; the post-Restoration triumph of Tory Oxford; the latitudinarian eighteenth century; the beginnings of empire; nineteenth century, imperialism, plutocracy and reform; twentieth century slow democratisation; and twenty-first century technology. Based at every stage on deep trawls through rich, much hitherto unexplored archival evidence, and lit by close portraits of dons, grandees, scholars, students, and staff through the centuries, this book charts a story of repeated dislocation, precarity, ingenuity, and renewal, very different from the more familiar image of Oxford's established grandeur and serene progress towards modernity.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Hart Hall
1: Origins
2: Consolidation: Hart Hall in the Later Middle Ages
3: Uncertain Independence: Hart Hall From Reformation To Restoration 1549-1660
4: Changing Fortune: From Hall to College 1660-1805
Part Two: Magdalen Hall
5: Magdalen Hall: From Annexe to Independence c.1482-1602
6: A Godly Hall 1602-1662
7: Staying On: Magdalen Hall 1662-1813
8: The 'Hertford Plot'
9: Macbride's Hall: 1813-1868
Part Three: Hertford College
10: Founding the Second Hertford College
11: Henry Boyd and the Creation of a College 1874-1918
12: Frustrated Modernity 1918-1959
13: Transformation 1959-1988
14: Modern Hertford
Conclusion
