Hatfield Record - 2021

Hatfield Record 2021

Two Hatfield Lions – Timba the Hatfield Mascot (aka Rachel Doyle), and Badger the Cathedral Cat (R.I.P. April 2021) on Chapel Chapel Green during Freshers’ Week 2020

Senior Man Sam Goring and the All One Hatfield Declaration at College Matriculation in October 2020 2

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Contents The Master’s Letter

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Notes from the Acting Vice-Master and Assistant Master 13 Notes from the Acting Vice-Master 17 Notes from the Acting Assistant Master

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Notes from the Coordinating Chaplain

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College Awards and Prizes

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College Sport

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College Societies

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Notes from the Hatfield Development Officer and Honorary Director of the Hatfield Trust

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Hatfield Trust Awards 2019-20

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The 1846 Club

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The Hatfield College Map

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Notes from the Librarian

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Hatfield Association

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Notes from the College Operations Manager

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Reflections of the President of the Hatfield Association

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Hatfield Junior Common Room

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Members’ News

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Hatfield Middle Common Room

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Deaths

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Hatfield Senior Common Room

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Obituaries and Tributes

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College Articles

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College Notes

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Notes from the Food and Beverage Services Manager

The Master’s Letter

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Christmas Formal 2020 Covid-style Household 8

When hard times hit, the communities we have built and belong to are thrown to the fore and tested for their fundamental strengths and values. Over the past year, Hatfield has proved itself to be an extremely strong, flexible and enduring community as so many Hatfielders, present and past, have demonstrated just what being the very best we can be means under the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid pandemic.

At the time of last year’s Record, covering the year from Easter to Easter 20192020, our College residents and many students living out in the city had returned home under the first lockdown, fully expecting to emerge again in time for post-exams events. However, it rapidly became clear that Covid was with us for longer, its impact quickly escalated, and Easter Term in person was shut down.

Hatfield, however, did not go into sleepy hibernation. As the hard realities of fast increasing levels of hospitalisation became clear, we were selected to house critical care workers as a major part of the University’s contribution to local resilience planning. Over one short week, our remaining student residents moved out in Covid-secure transport to Josephine Butler College in the far reaches of Durham; the would-be student occupants of College rooms signed to release them back to us; and a miniature army of College staff – porters, housekeepers, and catering - set about packing up student belongings from 125 suitable rooms left in mid-year freeze.

The Burt Room was rapidly filled to the brim with boxed up student possessions, the overspill housed in the Birley Room, and our first doctor arrived before all was stored away. The extraordinary effort and goodwill displayed by everyone involved was shining testimony to Hatfielders’ sense of our responsibility to the wider community.

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JCR Wine Service at the Christmas Formal 2020 behind a Covid Santa screen

Easter Term 2020 became a virtual affair. Students were understandably anxious about 48-hour online exams, and diminishing internship and employment prospects, in addition to the fastenveloping Covid clouds. We set about creating an online College community as quickly as we could. It’s hard to remember now the novelty of Teams and Zoom, but thanks to their underpinning, our College support and student welfare teams went into virtual extra-drive ensuring Hatfielders far and wide, still resident in Durham or spread across the globe, could access advice, support and signposting to services. We endeavoured to parallel our usual College-based provision, familiar to our students who are known to College staff, clearly evidencing the value of a collegiate system.

Aiming to respond to the Covid-related employment anxieties of graduating and continuing students, we put out a call to alumni to assist with Virtual Careers Conversations, based on our very successful in-house Careers Conversation 6

Dinners. And how our alumni responded.

We had imagined running three or four sessions from a variety of sectors, but thanks to the fantastic alumni response, we were able to host 13 wonderful conversations, covering everything from the arts to teaching, from civil service and foreign office to consultancy, finance, industry, law, technology and working for charities. The new virtual world enabled alumni from the USA and various European bases to join in, as well as others who would normally be too time-pressed to make the trip to Durham. Present students were able to gain hugely from the experience and openness of alumni and friends, to learn how career paths often meander as they develop, of how the presently very successful had also hit hard times along the way, made mistakes and pulled through. Many personal examples made evident the importance of grabbing opportunities and of being confident in what your Hatfield and Durham experiences have given you. As the environment around was fast closing

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The spirit of Hatfield was not to be dimmed as we celebrated roundly and recognisably, albeit Covid-style.

down, the warmth and concern of alumni for current Hatfielders was so uplifting and encouraging. Our students were very enthusiastic and grateful for their engagement. We will be back to ask for more!

The end of Easter Term in Hatfield is usually an exuberant combination of celebrations, performances and social events. However, for 2020 we had to rise to the challenge of online possibilities.

The JCR ran a virtual Hatfield Day – we trust the Castle foundations still shook – and we started to plan for a virtual Floreat.

Our major year-end awards event is usually celebrated in true Hatfield style, at a wonderful formal dinner in our beautiful College dining hall. How would we emulate this virtually?

Once again, our alumni willingly helped out, combined with many of our talented student musicians, for a virtual show carefully woven together by the trusty in-house team of Gareth Lawson, Grace Norman and Janet Raine. Never let it be said that Hatfielders can’t raise a celebration. As Senior Man Kathryn Rogers and I gathered in an otherwise empty dining hall, students, staff, alumni

and friends gathered on Zoom to witness events. The ceremonies opened with Kinky Jeff, whose ever cheery recordings from scattered bedrooms and attics kept us upbeat throughout. Hatfielder Sir Tim Smit KBE, founder of the Eden Project, was our headliner, speaking from his sunbathed gardens in Cornwall, encouraging our students to take up every third invitation and hence open themselves to serendipitous good chance. Yolande Wright, first female Senior Man, now Global Director Child Poverty, Climate and Urban at Save the Children International; Nicola Candlish, CEO British Youth Opera and former Keeper of the College Cane; Louisa Reeve, Olympic rower; Alok Kumar and Dom Berry, 2019 awardees of our top awards; and Mark Brian, SCR member and Head of Sport at Experience Durham, all sent video messages of congratulations.

Others, including donors of College awards, Barrie Wetton and Cynthia Connolly, provided congratulatory quotes with which we peppered proceedings.

And so we celebrated our first class graduates, and the winners of College Colours, Awards and Prizes for outstanding contributions to College life, including presenting the Michael Crossley Shield to Chloe Sweetland for four years of superb leadership and contributions to College life, and the Barrie Wetton prize to Thavish Annal, for his many wonderful, quiet contributions behind the scenes during his four years. The far-flung Chapel Choir led our rendering of the College song, and, for the last time, Senior Man Kathryn Rogers bowed out as I presented her with gifts from the College in thanks for a superb year in office. The spirit of Hatfield was not to be dimmed as we celebrated roundly and recognisably, albeit Covid-style.

We also said a formal goodbye at Floreat 2020 to two key members of the College staff, Vice-Master, Senior Tutor and Chaplain, Professor Anthony Bash, and Assistant Master, Dr Ellen Crabtree.

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Freps hard at work preparing for Freshers’ Week in the Birley Room 2020

years, through many changes across the Colleges, and in Hatfield. Ellen, a Hatfield graduate who had returned to the College fold, served for nearly four years as our Assistant Master. Both were in post when I arrived, and I owe them particular thanks for their support in inducting me into things Hatfield. Amongst other contributions, many students sought their expert and empathetic help when the going got tough, and I know how much this was appreciated, and how many went on to flourish (see p.39 for further acknowledgments).

Whilst Hatfield is a world unto itself, we are also very aware of the environment around us. News of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 in faraway Minneapolis resounded loudly within our walls as it did around the globe. As a College community, we work hard to be inclusive and to demonstrate how much we value our diversity, and we wanted to make a public

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statement of our commitment. During our celebration of 30 years of women at Hatfield in 2018, we coined our ethos, #AllOneHatfield. Building from this, during Easter Term 2020, we came together and created the #AllOneHatfield Declaration, a firm statement of our values, which was jointly signed on 1st July 2020 by representatives of all parts of College, our three Common Rooms, College Officers, Operations and Catering staff (please see inside back cover for the full statement).

Summer 2020 proved a relentless several months of planning and re-planning for the ever-changing Covid situation. Covid financial concerns looming, our two vacant College Officer posts were frozen to recruitment. After a gap in provision for several months, we were extremely fortunate to be joined on internal secondments by Assistant Master Katie Stobbs, previously of Ustinov and Student Volunteering in Experience Durham, and

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A toast to the Founders of Hatfield during the Virtual Founders’ Day event 2021 via Zoom

half-time by Vice-Master Gareth WeaverTyler, aka the Team Durham hockey coach, who both rapidly picked up the ethos of College and threw themselves wholeheartedly into Covid-era preparations for the new year. From the improvisation of Easter Term, we shifted to gleaning and interpreting government regulations and guidelines as they appeared and morphed. The University negotiated our permitted framework with the local public health and Council authorities, and we set about creating as good a collegiate setting as we could under the multiple restrictions imposed. My office become Hatfield mission control, as daily meetings first thing in the morning provided mutual communication of up to date intelligence on how we could operate, as well as much needed good humour as the realisation of what Michaelmas might bring became clearer.

We were extremely fortunate to have two excellent Senior Freps, Minnie Parker and James Reid, together with other student leaders, who worked to create a College welcome for our incoming Freshers as good as any year, under conditions we could never have imagined, and ever-changing constraints. And so international students began arriving in early September, for 14 days quarantine

in their Jevons’ rooms, many never having stepped foot in the UK before. Our International reps, Sanya Sharma and Kim Ninh, made sure, albeit remotely, that all felt welcomed and supported with checkin Zoom calls and games. And then, over four sunny days in late September, all dutifully socially distanced, our Home undergraduates arrived, beaming with excitement at finally reaching this point, accompanied by relieved looking parents, keen for their offspring to move on from months of incarceration and boredom.

The Freps swooped as always to help carry bags and boxes, to ensure new Hatfielders were welcomed as well as ever, even if masked up and keeping apart.

We had health authority permission to form Households of 16-18 Freshers. The class of 2020 will be marked forever by a different ice-breaker question to graduates from other years – for this year only (we hope), ‘which staircase were you on’ will be replaced by ‘which Household did you belong to’, letters and names replaced by numbers 1-24. This would be the group you were allowed to socialise with for the rest of the year, pretty large, though not it seems large enough for some, as the sanctions for the new misconducttype of ‘household-mixing’ mounted up.

However, in the meantime, household silent discos, household socials, and household dining times became the order of the day. Matriculation in the Cathedral was not possible, and so we ran 24 College matriculations in the Chapel, by Household, where our newest members signed the College matriculation book and pledged to uphold the #AllOneHatfield Declaration.

There are very few silver linings from Covid times, but this short ceremony, our Freshers begowned and gathering in our central building followed by a fulsome greeting on pots and pans, was a great success, and a new tradition for the future.

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Sir Tim Smit, KBE, Hatfield alumnus and Key Note Speaker at Virtual Floreat 2020

Following these sunny beginnings, a rapid Covid infection spike set in very quickly after the start of term, necessitating a fast change of gear. In quick succession, Livers In Households went into isolation, and many Livers Out, too. Rather than heading out for classes across the city, most students had to turn to sessions online. Our marvellous catering team, led

by Will Green, created a food delivery service from scratch – freshly prepared food from our kitchens boxed up and delivered all around College. The Chapel became the initial food delivery depot, quickly moving to a marquee in Dunham Court. Students volunteered to carry out deliveries, initially Livers In but as the numbers allowed out dwindled, Livers Out came from far and wide to undertake the task. It was an extraordinary effort, slickly managed, all dietary requirements catered for, rapid changes in which students were able to attend the dining hall or had to stay in, all managed with aplomb. An avalanche of online orders by students and their families, required a second tent, and another major delivery operation. Katie Stobbs, our Assistant Master, led an extraordinary effort to co-ordinate and communicate, from infection updates to isolation rules, to student support and feeding. For resident students it was a very tough experience.

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Most had been put together in Households of strangers a couple of weeks earlier and now they were unable to interact in person with anyone else. Teams calls between student Household reps, JCR and MCR Exec members and College Officers demonstrated extraordinary resilience and determination in our students to do the best they possibly could to support each other, and warm appreciation of the efforts of College. For staff, extremely long, hard hours were seemingly relentless, but the Hatfield team stuck together through thick and thin, ever focused on doing the very best we could for our students in the circumstances. We didn’t always get everything right, and had to make many a rapid adjustment, but never a cross word was said amongst us as we worked to support each other. All our systems came under huge strains; the skills and stamina of our Student Welfare team, our Student Support Office and all our student leaders and staff were stretched beyond all imaginable limits. I am extremely proud of how Hatfield stood up to the battering, how our collegiate, community values saw us through.

As the first Covid wave diminished, we started to plan for opening up, for Formals and festivities, for sport, theatre and music.

However, it was to no avail as Covid clouds darkened the national picture and further restrictions came in. We had to focus on what was possible from a very narrow menu. Our volunteering teams led the way to punching through. Under Charity Committee Chair, Ruby Debell, our College food bank collections swelled, and with the steerage of Katie Stobbs, a number of our schools links enabled students to go into virtual mentoring action with local schoolchildren.

Members of our Chapel Choir, led by Music Director Jess Norton Raybould, with Organist Miles MacLachlan, together with a very generous team of locum priests from the University Chaplaincy and

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Accountancy and Finance Virtual Careers Conversation event 2020

Cathedral, ensured that the weekly Hatfield Evensong services prevailed. Beamed through Facebook to Hatfielders past and present, from Stanford to Britten’s ceremony of Carols, we were restored and cheered by continuation of this tradition.

The Remembrance Day Service was held outside, conducted by Canon Michael Everitt from the Cathedral, with a beautiful rendering of the last post by Benedict Lewis. Around 150 Hatfielders attended (stretching social gathering rules at the time), many making the effort to dress respectfully and begowned. Our beautiful World War II honour book was placed on a central bench. We honoured the service of the Hatfielders who fell, as has been done since the Great War, and paused in reflection on tougher times.

Our bar and café opened and closed as restrictions varied. Our student bar and café teams provided superb Covid-secure service to Household groups, and our extra outside tables and parasols have made Dunham Court and Fellows Garden all the

more amenable. Sports teams competed under Covid rules whenever possible.

Student groups, bands and theatre companies took up the opportunity to rehearse socially distanced in all available teaching rooms as in person classes diminished. Our Visiting Drama Fellow, theatre director Jake Murray, founder of the North East Theatre Company Elysium, worked virtually with our enthusiastic Hatfielder thespians who recorded a stunning performance of Antigone from bedrooms and attics scattered through Durham and across the water in Germany, having never rehearsed in person.

Meanwhile, we proudly got involved in the very earliest trials of self-administered Lateral Flow Tests, as part of a collaboration between Durham University and the Oxford research team. Project central was set up in Hatfield SCR Dining Room where Oxford medics, Public Health England officials and our University Coordinators planned the campaign. The very first tests were carried out by students in

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Household 15 (aka E and F stairs in Pace) trialling online training and door-step delivery and collection of test packs. Their feedback informed larger scale trials in two other Colleges, leading to the development of cross-university test sites in Durham, and widespread usage of LFT tests in schools, work places etc.

to pull through in good shape. Then in February, many alumni joined us online for a virtual toast to our Founders, on David Melville’s birthday. Pre-proceeding chatter about the day’s test cricket accompanying greetings between long-lost alumni peers reflected the warmth and good humour of long-held Hatfielder links.

Formals were not permitted under Health Authority rulings. So, the JCR organised delivery tokens for Household ‘eat out’ events, and the MCR held virtual Formals.

Our Scholars’ Dinner went online, wouldbe attendees pre-collecting a small bottle of prosecco and a Hatfield embossed cupcake from the Chapel to fuel virtual proceedings. Christmas Formals couldn’t happen, but under standard Covid dinner arrangements, Livers In collected plates of turkey and full trimmings from the servery, to eat as for every meal in three Household-based sittings in the dining hall, at tables separated by screens. As a small seasonal offering, Christmas crackers were handed out, and the JCR served a glass of wine to all. After a grim, restriction-bound term, and despite the inability to perform the usual raucous community version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, spirits were lifted and a very good time was had by all.

Masked and distanced, I walked between tables, and was so delighted to hear from many students how they had enjoyed their first term, how they were very proud to be Hatfielders, how they appreciated what had been done to make things the best they could be. How extraordinary, how heart-warming – and, speaking personally, just the tonic I needed, the reassurance that our College community was going

The Hatfield community is built from Hatfielders across the generations.

Among our many impressive student leaders, Sam Goring, Senior Man 202021, demonstrated enormous skills under extraordinary circumstances as JCR plans for the year had to be transformed, and collaborative engagement as part of the College Management Team became more demanding and crucial than ever.

Many alumni have come forward to offer assistance, to join in virtual activities, and just to demonstrate their understanding of how hard day to day College life has become under ever-changing restrictions and infection bouts. A special donation from the Hatfield Association has supported a number of students who found themselves in particular difficulties under Covid. Hatfield Trust turned its funds to enabling Covid-secure extra activities by individuals and groups. On behalf of everyone in College over the past year, thank you all for your many and generous demonstrations of the true Hatfield spirit that emanates our wonderful community.

Professor Ann MacLarnon Master

P.S. As this edition of the Record will be late in going to press, another casualty of the pandemic, it allows me to preview the next chapter of the Hatfield saga from Easter 2020. The remainder of the 2020-21 year has been a happier tale as Hatfielders, true to our spirit, bounced back to make the most of the opportunity to abandon Zoom and Teams, and despite remaining restrictions, to take up every permitted possibility to celebrate the end of a hard year together in person once again.

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Notes from the Assistant Master and Acting Vice-Master

Katie Stobbs, Assistant Master (and Acting Vice-Master) 2020-21

(January to June 2021) Hello there and I trust all is well with you as we make our way to the end of what has been an interesting year, to say the least!

I joined Hatfield as the new Assistant Master in July 2020, following Dr Ellen Crabtree’s departure in April. I spent the next five weeks at my kitchen table navigating my new role and getting to know my new colleagues, whilst endlessly fighting with my cat for access to the computer keyboard. In August, I was finally able to cross the threshold and come into College for the first time.

This year has been like no other and there hasn’t been much time for reflection until now. Going back to that first day where I was able to start working from the Rectory, I remember feeling a real sense of pride that I was now a Hatfielder. Just before the first national lockdown in March 2020, I had been to visit Durham Miners’ Hall. For those of you who have never visited Redhills, the crowning glory is a spectacular debating chamber, nicknamed

the Pitman’s Parliament, in which each numbered seat corresponded to a colliery from the Durham Coalfield. Deliberately designed to resemble a mine-owner’s country estate, Redhills is a unique and extraordinary monument to working-class pride, ambition and self-organisation. Seat number 39 was Eden Colliery’s designated seat and now bears a token under the seat engraved with the names of my greatgrandad and his brother.

I never met my great-grandad, but by all accounts, he was a clever man. However, University would never have been an option for him. It would have been within touching distance, but only in a physical sense. I wonder if he ever peered into Hatfield when he was in Durham for the Miners’ Gala, whether he and his “marras” even knew of the world inside of the College gates. It wasn’t that my greatgrandad wasn’t capable, just that he didn’t have the opportunity. It may seem unfathomable that pit-men who earned very little to start with, donated a portion of their wages each month to support the Durham Miners’ Association (DMA) and

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Durham Miners’ Hall

to building Redhills. But for them, it was the way to create opportunity, not just for themselves, but for their children, and their children’s children. It was about accessing places and people that you believed you deserved to have access to. So, I go back to feeling that sense of pride on my first day in my new role at Hatfield. I’m very proud to be a first generation scholar from County Durham, an alumna of Durham University and now the Acting Vice-Master of Hatfield College, Durham’s second oldest College. I’m sure my great-grandad would have loved the concept of All One Hatfield, the belief that a diverse, inclusive community of equals is of the highest value to all. I am very excited to be a part of it.

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inducting all of our new undergraduates and postgraduates been greater, whilst supporting our current students at the start of a new academic year shaped by uncertainty. We were determined to welcome all applicants who met their offer grades, despite the chaos on A Level Results Day and the subsequent decision to approve centre assessed grades.

There were suggestions of housing some Hatfielders across the City. However this year, more than ever, our priority was to create that strong sense of community Hatfield is known for. Luckily, we were able to create a mixed undergraduate and postgraduate community in James Barber House for the first time, in order to accommodate everyone who had earned their place at Hatfield in very difficult circumstances.

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College staff, the JCR, MCR and the indefatigable Frep team (led by James Reid and Minnie Parker) went to unbelievable efforts to ensure that the incoming cohort of students, whether living in or out of College, whether living inside or out of the UK, whether quarantining or otherwise, could experience College life and benefit from as many opportunities as possible, enveloping them in the Hatfield spirit and passing on our traditions and quirks. From organising a four-day arrivals weekend to drafting servery meal times with military precision, from household wristbands to mini-matriculations in the Chapel and socially distanced Freshers’ formals, Michaelmas Term 2020 received a level of planning last seen in Churchill’s War Rooms. Not to mention coordinating an army of Hatfielders to deliver meals on wheels for 300 self-isolating students, three times a day!

Whilst August to December was the ultimate baptism of fire as a new staff member, I was very privileged to work alongside the most creative, adaptable, dedicated and resilient colleagues and students who showed true grit and collegiality when the chips were down.

However, as the old saying goes, out of challenge comes opportunity. Despite the unexpected obstacles, opportunities came to improve many procedures and practices in the wider student experience and operational spheres within College.

Key administrative processes have been streamlined and gone online, working practices have become more efficient and effective, and our collaborative mind set was cemented. Progress in a pandemic – it hasn’t all been bad!

Covid-19 restrictions have enabled us to focus on how we can make College as accessible as it can be, in a physical and logistical sense but also more widely.

Our ethos of All One Hatfield has been embraced and celebrated at any given chance. From anti-racism training for

our Freps, to Hanukkah doughnuts in the dining hall and fortnightly First Generation Scholars’ meetings, we have been doing everything we can to ensure that Hatfield is a place where all of our students can thrive and diversity is celebrated. Hatfield has supported more students than ever before through the Hatfield Bursary Scheme, another positive milestone.

I have responsibility for student support and wellbeing within College. Many of the students I see on a daily basis are going through a difficult and challenging time, but I have been impressed by their motivation and resilience. It has been a particular pleasure to work with Jess Clark and Shauna Townsend, the JCR Welfare Officers this year, who have done a huge amount to support their peers at a time when welfare and student support have been very much in demand. I know the support and encouragement from our Student Support Office and Welfare team is greatly appreciated. This academic year has seen the introduction of a new Hatfield Student Signposting Handbook, and a number of important wellbeing campaigns have been run throughout the academic year including a Body Positivity Campaign with Hatfield Feminists, an Imposter Syndrome campaign including a spotlight on imposter syndrome in the People of Colour community and a Men’s Mental Health Month campaign in November 2020.

The Welfare team have also been keeping the famous Tea and Toast tradition alive virtually throughout term! Our Mentors have also been truly brilliant, supporting Hatfielders virtually as well as bringing College and Durham to life, especially for those students who have been studying entirely online for this academic year.

Two virtual Post-Offer Visit Days in February and March 2021 have been a great opportunity to get to know many of our current applicants. They are a socially engaged bunch who showed keen interest in sports, societies and the other pillars of

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College life, but also wanted to know about the College response to the Black Lives Matters movement and how to get involved in feminist activism or environmental initiatives. We hope that after their virtual visit as well as through our ongoing programme of events for applicants, they will be convinced Hatfield is the place for them.

We have been active in reaching out to our neighbours and it has been so good to see the local community enjoying what our students can offer; 235kg of food has been donated to local food banks, much needed funds have been raised for Durham Action on Single Housing and Red Nose Day, advent calendars and Christmas cards have been distributed amongst young and elderly residents alike, and our Schools’ Mentoring Project has continued to support local sixth formers despite the lockdowns. The Hatfield Fashion Show will be held in College once again this year and is sure to raise vital funds in aid of the Trussell Trust. I know that all our community partners appreciate the contribution our students make to the lives of local people. Simultaneously, involvement in volunteering and outreach is an important formational experience for Hatfielders, particularly this year where contact with others and the world outside has often been illegal! I hope that with time our neighbours also refer to us, as you do, as ‘our College’. This resonates with our passion for, and dedication to, making a difference to the lives of people both within and outside the College and developing a strong sense of community and inclusion in all that we do. Our 175 Good Deeds campaign marking our upcoming 175th anniversary will be the perfect opportunity to promote that.

My first ten months in this role have been hugely enjoyable and I am looking forward to the next academic year and the challenges, opportunities and rewards it will bring for all members of our College

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Alex Galucci, JCR Charity Committee, at our Red Nose Day fundraising stall 2021

community, hopefully with the end of the pandemic in sight. I write in mid-April 2021 at an uncertain time for us all but I know life at Hatfield will continue to be the best it can be!

Katie Stobbs

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Gareth Weaver-Tyler, Acting Vice-Master July to December 2020

Notes from the Acting Vice-Master (July-December 2020) In times of uncertainty we have needed to be adaptable and I strongly believe we have achieved this as an entire Hatfield family.

When the global pandemic started in March 2020 and the University started to close, I was the University Head Hockey Coach, and little did I know that a mere three months later I would be seconded to the role of Vice-Master at Hatfield. I would like to take this opportunity to state the honour it has been to be part of College life at Hatfield and a huge thanks to the entire Hatfield family.

Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, I did not have the pleasure of seeing Hatfield in its true full colours and this is something I will look forward to in the future when normal times resume. I did, however, manage to get the opportunity to wear my gown on one occasion during Michaelmas Term, to attend a socially-distanced Formal. This was, of course, a highlight of my time at Hatfield, primarily seeing first-hand our wonderful students enjoy themselves in the Dining Hall. However, secretly, it was

due to wanting to enjoy one meal on the huge tables that myself and Will Green (Hatfield’s amazing Food and Beverage Services Manager), had to move to maximise the dining capacity when the numbers per student household were significantly reduced. The reason behind disclosing such a story is far greater than purely moving tables to maximise numbers that could be catered for in one sitting – it typifies the All One Hatfield culture.

Michaelmas Term was extremely difficult for all, but the spirit and the connection amongst all staff and students was incredible and allowed us to maximise every opportunity. Culture in any organisation must be demonstrated by strong leadership and in Professor Ann MacLarnon we have this in abundance. I am extremely grateful that Ann gave me the chance to be seconded to the role in Hatfield and without doubt I have made a friend for life.

The culture of All One Hatfield was always present, even in our darkest hours. I was so fortunate to work alongside so many outstanding staff and students at Hatfield who collectively came together repeatedly 17

High Table at Freshers’ Formal Covid-style 2020 – front James Reid, Minnie Parker (Senior Freps).

to overcome difficult situations. Whether this was working with David Embleton, Operations Manager, to ensure all Covid-19 risk assessments were signed off to open Hatfield facilities, or Katie Stobbs, Assistant Master, who has been instrumental this year, alongside Brenda Mitchell, in ensuring all our students were supported.

Fantastic working relationships were not exclusive to College staff, as our student leaders continually stepped up to work in partnership with staff to enhance life at Hatfield. From Senior Man, Sam Goring, to James Reid and Minnie Parker (Senior Freps) all the way through to our newly appointed Household Reps I thank every one of you! Leadership amongst your peers is never easy, but thank you for everything you have contributed to Hatfield this year.

It might not have been our best year, but it has certainly been memorable and this would not have been possible without you!

I would also like to extend a huge thank you to our College Mentors who were equally adaptable this year under difficult

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circumstances and became household mentors through online platforms rather than playing their more usual role. Finally, a huge and very special thank you to Janet Raine our wonderful Senior College Administrator, for listening to so many questions throughout my time at Hatfield.

Janet really is the true oracle of all Hatfield knowledge!

Will I be disappointed to see the back of Covid-19? Absolutely not, but am I disappointed to see the end of my time at Hatfield? ABSOLUTELY! However, we all know ‘Once a Hatfielder, always a Hatfielder’ and therefore I am sure I will see many of you at a College function in the near future.

Thank you to everyone who has made me feel part of the Hatfield family.

Gareth Weaver-Tyler

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Jonathan Rooney, Acting Assistant Master February to April 2021

Notes from the Acting Assistant Master (February-April 2021) To sit down and write this note has been an incredible opportunity to look back and reflect on the incredible year that we have experienced. Every aspect of College life has been impacted in some way; the response has been brilliant to witness. In my short time at Hatfield as a small cog in the system, I have been able to see and help a wonderful cast of characters that have come together and been tested like never before. I would like to thank Professor Ann MacLarnon for her continued leadership and dedication to the College in this trying time.

There has not been a single area of College life that has not seen an impact of the restrictions in some form. The restrictions themselves have even been an ever-changing challenge and the whole community of staff and students have come together brilliantly to ensure that people here are safe and secure.

In the last edition of the Hatfield Record, Professor Anthony Bash was looking forward to the appointment of a new Assistant Master and Katie Stobbs has been an incredible source of support for both students and staff in taking up that position. Katie’s dedication and professionalism led to her stepping up as Acting Vice-Master for Epiphany Term onwards. Michaelmas Term saw Gareth Weaver-Tyler join the team as Acting ViceMaster and the groundwork he put in place enabled a smooth transition for me to come in for the Epiphany Term as Acting Assistant Master. I would like to thank both Katie and Gareth for the incredible support they offered me.

One of the biggest challenges Hatfield faced was the use of our site in a safe manner. Households, mealtime slots, booking systems for music practice, gym, Multi-Use Game Area (aka the tennis court) and even for the bar have taken a huge amount of administration and our student executive has stood up to the challenge with aplomb. I can seldom recall a week in which David Embleton (College 19

Operations Manager) and Will Green (Food and Beverage Services Manager) and their teams didn’t have to adapt to a new wrinkle within the rules. The student body responded to these changes with grace and an understanding that they needed to play their part and play it well.

In a challenging time for behaviour and discipline, the increase in rules that disrupt the natural experience of life at Hatfield led to an increase in reported incidents.

The vast majority of these incidents were momentary lapses in concentration resulting in minor violations of rules that we all hope will not exist by the time you read this. The students were consistent in their understanding and empathy for those around them and engaged with the processes, helping to spread the word to their households about where the lines are drawn. Sam Goring (Senior Man) and Jonathan Leung (JCR VP Discipline) played their part in ensuring the messaging was consistent and coming from all stakeholders not just the College Office. Jonathan played a huge part in his contributions to Informal Disciplinary Hearings, and I am sure the students involved are thankful for his efforts. I certainly am.

Katie Stobbs and Brenda Mitchell (Student Support Officer) have overseen a challenging period for student support with an unbelievable resilience and their impact on student outcomes is difficult to put into words. During my brief time with the College, I was stunned by the depth of support offered both by the central team and the brilliant JCR Welfare team. As we return to more face-to-face activities these teams will be critical to the health of the College as some of the effects of this period will be felt for some time yet.

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I am pleased to see the recent increase in activity from our First Generation Scholars’ group and, a year on, there is a consistent flow of information and activity that will only strengthen the College in the future.

Our mentoring programme has faced a challenge this year with a lack of faceto-face activity, but the resilience and determination shown by our group of mentors has been impressive to witness.

Our mentors are looking forward to the relaxation of restrictions to visit the College and finally meet the students in person.

A lot of the focus has been on the safety and security of those on site, but we can never forget the incredible contributions made by the wider community. Holding our first virtual Founders’ Day we were reminded by our alumni that we will find a way to succeed no matter what challenge we face. The Hatfield Trust has had a year of incredible contributions to unique projects helping students to adapt to the current situation. Our Visiting Fellow in Drama, Jake Murray, produced a stunning version of Sophocles’ Antigone rehearsed and performed entirely online with students in several countries contributing.

Reading back through this I will make one final reflection. No matter what the challenge we faced this academic year, Hatfield College came together and worked tirelessly to make the most of the situation. This year has demonstrated that we are All One Hatfield like no other.

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No matter what the challenge we faced this academic year, Hatfield College came together and worked tirelessly to make the most of the situation.

This year has demonstrated that we are All One Hatfield like no other.

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Hatfield Remembrance Day Service with Canon Michael Everitt and the Hatfield Chapel Choir 2020

Notes from the Coordinating Chaplain Following eight years as College Chaplain and Vice-Master of Hatfield College, the Revd Professor Anthony Bash moved to a new role in the University in the Easter Term 2020.

Since then, there has been a vacancy in the post of College Chaplain. In the interim, I have had the pleasure of supporting the College, particularly in relation to chapel worship.

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Raybould, Director of Music, and Miles MacLachlan, Organ Scholar. They have both worked hard to maintain the College’s excellent choral tradition in exceptional circumstances.

Due to Covid restrictions, Chapel services have been broadcast each week via the Choir of Hatfield College Facebook page. These have been led by various College chaplains as well as members of the Cathedral clergy. There has been a ‘reduced’ Covid-compliant choir at each service who have sung a range of anthems and settings for Evensong. This is a remarkable achievement with only three or four voices! Special acts of worship have included an outdoor College Remembrance

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I have enjoyed getting to know the College, its traditions and distinctive personality.

Day Service led by Canon Michael Everitt, Eucharist on Ash Wednesday and a Tenebrae Service in Passiontide.

Additionally, the choir released a number of choral pieces on Easter Sunday.

As I have said already, it has been a pleasure to support Hatfield College over the 2020/21 academic year. I have enjoyed getting to know the College, its traditions and distinctive personality. I look forward to the appointment of the next College Chaplain who I know will be well-supported by students, staff and alumni.

Revd. Gavin Wort

Hatfield Chapel Choir with Jess Norton Raybould, Director of Music and University Coordinating Chaplain, Revd Gavin Wort in the Hatfield Chapel

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Notes from the Food and Beverage Services Manager Well what a year. To say this year has been tough is an understatement, with Covid hitting the country hard, the University and College still had to be there for our students. Hatfield well and truly lived up to the saying All One Hatfield.

Who would have thought our Lion In Winter Ball (LIWB) on 6 March 2020 would have been the last event we hosted for a long time. Nevertheless, our Head Chef and his brigade managed to wow 300 guests with a mouth-watering menu.

With Epiphany Term over and done with we had to move into swift action as Hatfield was used to support University Durham Hospital with critical care workers.

Our catering team (myself included) threw on our PPE, packed up every single bedroom in Hatfield and moved student belongings into storage to free up our rooms. The commitment by all the team to helping during this tough period was second-to-none.

With teaching all online during Easter Term, the College had a dormant period when the dining hall stood still and the fridges and freezers in the kitchen stood empty as our catering team was placed onto the government’s furlough scheme.

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glass screens in the servery and framed dividers sectioning off tables. The servery and dining hall did look a whole lot different. On the plus side, our catering team and café/bar team were allowed to resume their duties in College. A different start to the term with no traditional Freshers’ Week, but a week of planned socially distanced events in our bar, which our students still managed to make the most of. Formals were allowed to recommence, in a slightly different format due to social distancing, but we still managed to pull it off and keep it as “normal” as possible to give our freshers a “proper” Hatfield welcome.

...our Head Chef and his brigade managed to wow 300 guests with a mouthwatering menu.

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Hatfield Dining Hall with safety screens, one-way system and washable chairs

Michaelmas Term was a tough one even with no major events planned. The College was placed into lockdown and our catering operation had to move swiftly as all 300+ living in students still had to be fed their three meals per day. This is when Hatfield meals on wheels was born. With help from our dedicated living out students, we managed to deliver over 5000 meals per week. With Christmas fast approaching, we weren’t going to let Covid put a dampener on our celebrations. Since we couldn’t put on our traditional Christmas formals our students put on their Christmas jumpers and headed down to the dining hall in households for a Christmas dinner Covidstyle. After a very hard first term, our students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and even pulled a Christmas cracker or two.

Breakfast at the Hatfield Servery

Epiphany Term 2021 started with pretty much more of what 2020 brought us.

The main focus was to get through the term as safely as possible. Due to restrictions, our bar remained closed, but our café managed to stay open and provide a comfortable environment for students to come and study in during the day. With the cancellation of formals, it was business as usual in the dining hall and the cheery catering team were always there providing as much normality for our students as possible.

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Notes from the Librarian For the second time, I find myself writing this report from my office at home. The ebbs and flows of the pandemic continue, but thankfully vaccinations offer hope of life returning to some degree of normality in the coming months.

Hatfield College and the wider University have done their best to continue to educate and provide resources to students, but there have been many challenges to overcome. Hatfield Library was closed from the first lockdown in March 2020 and throughout the summer. In the summer, to help postgraduates, we offered to purchase books and have them posted directly to the student, to be returned to the Library and catalogued when they were finished, which some students gratefully accepted.

In September, following Covid-19 checks completed by College Operations, and discussions with College Officers, the Library was able to reopen for Michaelmas Term, albeit in a much-reduced capacity.

Following models developed by the Bill Bryson Library over the summer, Hatfield Library offered students living out the ability to request books via a web-form, which were then packaged for them to collect – a ‘Click & Collect’ service. Liversin could access the library for 30-minute ‘Browse & Borrow’ appointments, which happened throughout the week. By the third week of Michaelmas Term though, 26

most liver-in households were in lockdown isolation due to someone testing positive for Covid-19, so a third service – to deliver books via the internal post to isolating students – was introduced as well.

Due to a lack of ventilation (after all, the Melville building is nearly two centuries old!), the B-Stairs Study Room and the Computer Room were completely offlimits. The A-Stairs Study Room had one small openable window, allowing for one person at a time, so it was decided to become the book collection point for livers-out. Despite the inconvenience of small mostly unopenable windows, at least there was a door from the rear carpark (near Kingsgate Bridge) that would allow students to come to the Library without going through a ‘household’ of livers-in.

However, the small size of the Library itself, and closeness between bookshelves and desks, has meant no spaces for study have been available to students since March 2020.

The December lockdown (from which we are only just emerging now at Easter 2021) required even greater restrictions; no students could be allowed in the Library, so Library Assistants and I have been working hard to provide books to all Hatfielders via the ‘Click & Collect’ service. We also introduced postal loans and chapter scanning to students not in Durham.

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Despite the huge disruption to services, new books continue to be purchased, and donations added to the collection. So far nearly 50 new books have been purchased and catalogued. Unlike most years, very few books were donated by graduating students, but of course no one was here to do so! We did, however, have a generous donation of over 200 academic books by Anthony Bash, our outgoing Vice-Master/ Senior Tutor, mostly concerning theology, history, and philosophy.

The Student Library Assistant Team have done a brilliant job this year helping provide ever-changing services to keep Hatfield Library running. They include returners Declan Merrington, Chloe Ellison, and William Hutchings, and new Library Assistants Kim Devereux-West, Anthony

New signage to maintain Covid-safe protocols at the Library

Morris, Charlotte Cox, Katie Yau, Jess Norton Raybould, Naomi Rescorla-Brown, and Charlotte Davies, who started in October 2020. We are all looking forward to the next academic year when (hopefully) things will be a little more normal.

Hatfield Library is always working to develop the collection to ensure our relevance to the College and its students.

To support that aim we are always happy to accept donations of modern editions of academic books and/or financial donations. Many thanks!

Dr Kevin Sheehan

External A-Stairs door to the back of College facilitating the Covid-safe one way system

Library books in quarantine

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Christmas jumper day for the Hatfield staff team 2020

Notes from the College Operations Manager The past 12 months have been a period of continual change for the Hatfield Operations Team, as it has been for the entire population due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At times, this has presented a number of extremely difficult challenges, which our Team has managed to overcome with flying colours.

Hatfield was chosen as one of two Colleges to provide accommodation for critical care workers in March 2020, which involved packing, moving and storing all of the students’ belongings from their rooms into the Burt Room, then servicing all of those student rooms within a tight turnaround time. Our Team managed to complete this in brilliant fashion, whilst still dealing with the uncertainties and unknowns that we faced as the Covid pandemic began to hit. I would also like to thank the Catering Team who assisted in packing students’ belongings while preparing for the arrival of the critical care workers; their help was enormously appreciated, and showed what a great team we have in Hatfield.

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Welcoming back our students to a Covidsecure environment in October was a great moment for the College and our Team. This involved organising our accommodation into Households (of maximum 20 students) in which the sharing of facilities and being socially distanced was not required.

This also meant changes in a number of processes and procedures to enable us to continue to provide a service in a Covidsecure way. As we have come to expect from our Hatfield community, all staff and students have been extremely helpful and understanding, and we thank you for your cooperation during this period of change.

There have also been a number of works completed in the College, which continue to improve our site. The Covid-19 five-test model allowed our College to be Covidsecure; the model involved the installation of hand sanitisers throughout the site, screens and one-way systems to allow our community to remain safe. The Estates and Facilities’ summer works programme allowed improvements to many of our student rooms across the entire site. All these works have had a huge impact on

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improving our site and I thank everyone involved. In the coming 12 months we are looking at further projects to continue to improve the College.

Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were unable to hold our usual annual events such as Hatfield Day and Hatfield Sessions in 2020. Our Operations Team did assist with many events such as Lion in Winter Ball, which was able to take place prior to the pandemic, and Freshers’ Week, which went ahead in a modified way with Covid controls in place. I would like to thank all those across the College who attended these events and, in particular, thank you to the students who put these

Hatfield Housekeeping team 2020

events together. Special thanks and well done to the Freps Team. Despite all the changes in Covid guidance and challenges in the lead-up to Freshers’ Sunday, they still managed to put on some outstanding activities.

The Operations Team has accomplished a number of great things over the past 12 months. I am extremely proud of what the Team has contributed to the Hatfield experience and to the community in what has been a year like no other.

David Embleton

Lateral Flow Testing marquee on Dunham Court

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From left to right: Sam Goring (Senior Man), Jonathan Leung (Vice-President Discipline), Jess Clark (Senior Welfare Officer), Max Hart (Treasurer), Jonathan Cherrett (Facilities Officer), Rhiannon Melass (Communities Officer), Dane Bainbridge (Sports and Societies Officer), Chloe Hayes (Events Officer), Leonor Lopes (Secretary), Cassandra Baptiste (Chair)

Hatfield Junior Common Room As readers may have expected, Covid has dominated the activity of the Junior Common Room in the period April 2020 – March 2021.

Despite what can arguably be seen as the most significant interruption to undergraduate life since the war, undergraduates have come together in the Hatfield spirit to make the best of it, help others, and be the best they can be.

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Amongst the confusion of the initial Covid outbreak my able predecessor, Kathryn Rogers, set about establishing an online community to provide support to Hatfielders at home and to those still in Durham. Through these networks Hatfielders shared their suggestions for keeping physically and mentally fit, as well as providing light relief and humour in those dark times. Podcasts, books, lectures, fitness apps and more were shared and enjoyed.

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Sabbatical Senior Man Sam Goring Chair Cassandra Baptiste Communities Officer Rhiannon Melass Events Officer Chloe Hayes Facilities Officer Jonathan Cherrett Secretary Leonor De Castro Ferreira Lopes Sports & Societies Officer Dane Bainbridge Treasurer Max Hart Vice-President (Discipline) Jonathan Leung Senior Welfare Officer Jessica Clark Undertaking exams at home posed a potentially daunting challenge to many Hatfielders. The JCR rose to the challenge and supported Hatfielders with virtual welfare campaigns spearheaded by Senior Welfare Officer, Jess Clark. Online drop-in hours were consistently provided and there was never a moment when Hatfielders were without support. Jess’ report (see page 87) details the hard work put in the by the team for which we are all thankful.

Following the death of George Floyd, the JCR was united in its determination to root out inequality within the JCR, College, University and wider society. To that end Rhiannon Melass, JCR Communities Officer, established an Equality and Diversity Committee. Recommendations from the

group are expected in Michaelmas 2021.

At a university level, the JCR, through our People of Colour community, contributed to DU People of Colour Association’s ‘17 Letters, 4 Words’ Campaign. The communities have continued to create safe virtual spaces for marginalised groups in College despite Covid and have contributed feedback and campaigned to make the lives of their constituents better.

This work has gained renewed urgency following the murder of Cuth’s alumna Sarah Everard in March 2021. Hatfield Feminists continue to work to make Hatfield, Durham and the wider world a safer, more equal, place for all.

Though the usual post-exams festivities were abandoned, Chloe Hayes, JCR Events Officer, rose to the challenge and organised an online Hatfield Day. The day emulated Hatfield Day as far as possible and included music, quizzes and a mysterious Zoom call early in the morning.

As quickly as summer came, it left. With a new Senior Man in post the JCR set about delivering Freshers’ Week in a Covid environment. The usual festivities and move-in activities looked impossible on paper. However despite this, James Reid and Minnie Parker, the JCR’s Senior Freps managed to organise a Freshers’ Week like no other. Hatfield freshers were able to get a true taste of College life through an ambitious, well marshalled, programme, which had been assembled in only three days. Senior Freps usually have 12 weeks!

Not only was there a good array of evening entertainment, but the move-in itself was smooth, socially distanced and well spirited. The tradition of having a Freshers’ Formal on arrival was sadly discontinued, but Freshers’ Formal did continue. Two thirds of freshers attended a Formal before Covid intervened. We are aiming to hold the last Formals in Easter Term 2021.

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calendar. The team are now hard at work on Summer Ball.

Rebuilding College life will be difficult, but if anyone can do it, it’s this Exec and their teams.

momentum. Dane Bainbridge, JCR Sports and Societies Officer, set about providing training to club captains and society presidents to help them navigate the Covid landscape. Following this, sports and societies quickly established themselves in a Covid secure way and offered a great sense of community to many.

Unfortunately, the November lockdown put an end to sports and societies operating, but the JCR is looking to relaunch clubs and societies in early May. The November lockdown also put an end to plans to restart Formal dinners in a reduced capacity format. It confirmed the rescheduling of the Michaelmas and Lumley Balls, which were eventually joined

by Lion in Winter Ball. All three have been merged into the Summer Ball, which is taking place in Easter Term. Not resting on their laurels, the JCR events team organised a number of unique events including variations on the theme of Formals. The JCR gave money to members to eat out at a restaurant or obtain takeaway if they dressed up and looked the part. The team also arranged a series of online events, with in person versions for livers in, which brought some variety to an otherwise dull November lockdown 32

Epiphany Term was rather like the end of Michaelmas Term and as such facilities in College were restricted in use. Jonathan Cherrett, JCR Facilities Officer, doggedly worked to keep as much open as was possible. The gym remained open as a household exercise area for many weeks and spaces such as the Little Burt Room were available for light relief courtesy of the dartboard. In the final weeks of Epiphany, through working with College Office, the JCR was able to open the Birley and Little Burt Rooms as additional study space to help with overcrowding at the Bill Bryson Library.

A consistent theme of the year was the increase in disciplinary issues owing to Covid regulations. As Vice-President (Discipline), Jonathan Leung represented the view of the student body in disciplinary hearings. The volume of these was incredibly high. Working with the Acting Vice and Assistant Masters, Jonathan ensured the difficulties of student life under Covid were considered in decisionmaking whilst also advocating for community responsibility.

Owing to a lack of expenditure, Max Hart’s tenure as Treasurer was relatively quiet.

Max, eager as ever, did not simply accept a large surplus. He has set out in detail where the surplus funds are to be spent in Easter Term. He also helped the JCR solve a number of long-term bookkeeping issues and improved the JCR’s financial planning documents. Not necessarily the most glamorous, but necessary and important, work.

Throughout the pandemic, Cassie Baptiste, JCR Chair, ensured members could make their voices heard and that the JCR’s democratic processes continued.

JCR meetings were streamlined with the introduction of written reports and standardised agendas. New segments

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aimed at livening up meetings were well received and the experience gained led to my victory over the Chad’s President on Chad’s Day. During the lockdown in November, the JCR held a referendum on its governance. Cassie led the way chairing online debates and producing informative material. The result was that the JCR will register as a charity. Cassie is continuing to work on charitable status in the JCR’s newest Exec position – Charity Framework Officer.

The past year was certainly not the year the Exec signed up for. Despite this they didn’t merely keep College life on life support; the Exec sought to constantly do as much as was safe to do, to do as much for others as they could and to reimage old events and traditions for the Covid era.

They are the best Executive I have served with and I am incredibly proud to have led such a fantastic, dedicated team.

Looking ahead the JCR is in a strong position to help relaunch College life.

With a new Exec on-board and ready to go, we will start as we mean to go on with a bumper Easter Term. Rebuilding College life will be difficult, but if anyone can do it, it’s this Exec and their teams. I am confident that next year’s Record will feature a report with College life looking as it normally does but augmented with improvements from the Covid era. Normal service to resume shortly; watch this space…

Sam Goring Sabbatical Senior Man

Left: Freps Dom Cornfield and Joe Burnage taking a well earned break on Chapel Green Right: Fresher signing College Matriculation Book at Covid-safe mini matriculation in Hatfield Chapel

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Hatfield Middle Common Room This year has been tough for everyone, but the MCR has been able to step up and adapt to the situation to ensure that postgrads have been able to make the most of their time at Hatfield. It has been incredibly difficult, but it has brought us closer together and helped us appreciate the value of community at College.

During Induction Week, we held online events so that students would be able to take part despite the national restrictions.

Livers-in were able to have a wine night and take part in a matriculation ceremony in the College chapel. We also wanted to have at least one in-person event for the livers-out and our ‘speed dating’ networking event in College allowed students to meet each other in person and make connections, whilst ensuring that masks and distancing rules were adhered to.

Our online research symposium was a great success with fascinating presentations by the speakers from a wide range of subjects ranging from research areas such as English literature, world music and physics.

Our online Formals were a great opportunity for students to have at least some semblance of normal College life and we used the online platform ‘Wonder’ to facilitate a relatively more natural method of interaction within a virtual space.

Recognising how difficult lockdown has been for students, we also used the MCR budget to help the students’ social events by subsidising the price of Summer Ball tickets, the cost of food and beverage

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for online Formals, as well as purchasing sports equipment and Christmas decorations for the residents at James Barber House.

With restrictions easing, we have been able to slowly begin in-person events with formals, a research symposium in College and a barbeque in the Fellows’ garden.

It has been a great pleasure to meet the students this year and I hope that our students will continue to engage with College activities and continue to contribute to the rich academic life and community within the MCR and College.

Amila Wijesinghe MCR President

President Amila Wijesinghe Academic Officers Salam Aazam, Benjamin Shaw Chair Henry Hoyle Events Officer James Petley Secretary Lydia Foss Treasurer Miles Hughes Welfare Officer Lorna Flynn

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Hatfield Senior Common Room Due to the national lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, events since March 2020 have been severely restricted, but we have been creative in finding ways to join together to keep the Hatfield spirit alive.

We held our first virtual Hatfield SCR pre-dinner drinks on 5 June 2020 via Zoom, from 6.30 to 7.00pm, when under normal circumstances we might have been gathering in the SCR sitting room before Formal. SCR members were able to meet online for cheerful conversation and to share ideas and experiences, along with our own gin and tonic! Our weekly virtual pre-dinner drinks proved popular, and so they have continued, hosted by Sophie Philipson, Andrew Jackson and Christine Kent. Professor Tim Burt, former Master, kindly gave a presentation of his “Memories of Hatfield” at one of these events in February 2021.

The SCR Book Club continues with enthusiasm. Seven regular members meet online every third Thursday to discuss the latest book. We read what are described as “modern classics” which have been recommended by members of the group.

Although the virtual meetings have served us well throughout the pandemic and have allowed us to continue to include members from far and wide, we hope to meet in person in College again once restrictions are lifted.

During the summer we also set up a Media Club, taking advantage of the free screening of plays by the National Theatre, available on YouTube. Six SCR members discussed four productions via Zoom,

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President Sophie Philipson Social Secretary Christine Kent Secretary Andrew Jackson Treasurer Julian Hatton including The Madness of George III; Small Island; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Les Blancs.

One thing we can’t do online is the SCR walks! However a small group met up on 15 May for a six mile walk from Sunderland Bridge, visiting Croxdale and stopping for an alfresco packed lunch on the village green at Hett.

Despite not being able to offer the normal benefits of SCR membership, I would like to thank members for their engagement whenever it has been possible and for also supporting our initiative to use the subscription income for 2020-21 as a donation to the Hatfield Trust to support Hatfield students from lower-income households who have been impacted by the pandemic and most in need.

We look forward to welcoming you back into College to take part in face to face events again soon.

Sophie Philipson SCR President

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I would like to thank members for their engagement whenever it has been possible and for also supporting our initiative to use the subscription income for 2020-21 as a donation to the Hatfield Trust. This will support Hatfield students from lowerincome households who have been impacted by the pandemic and most in need.

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An Appreciation Reverend Professor Anthony Bash Anthony served the Hatfield community for 12 years, through many changes in the Colleges, and in Hatfield under two Masters.

After studying law at Bristol University, he trained and practised as a solicitor.

He then studied for a theology degree at Glasgow University and a doctorate at Cambridge University. After a period as a parish priest, he joined first Castle and then Hatfield College. He was appointed Tutor for Postgraduates and Chaplain at Hatfield from February 2008. Following Dr Penny Widdison’s retirement as Senior Tutor in December 2012, he took up the role as Acting Senior Tutor, and his appointment as half-time Senior Tutor and half-time Chaplain was confirmed in June 2013.

He was Acting Master (during Tim Burt’s research leave) in Easter Term 2014, and added the title Vice-Master as University terminology developed.

Anthony was always keen to ensure that a framework for promoting student wellbeing and personal development was in place. At the forefront of Colleges developing the now-styled Wider Student Experience for Durham students, Anthony has left Hatfield with a number of core and established programmes, including our active College Mentor scheme, the Hatfield Schools’ mentoring programme supporting five less privileged local secondary schools, and SHAPED, a student-led programme Supporting Hatfielders’ Academic Progress, Employability & Development.

Reverend Professor Anthony Bash on a Hatfield visit to the London Academy of Excellence

Anthony steered the development of the Hatfield Award, recognising students’ personal development achievements, which was a progressive forerunner of the University-wide Durham Inspired Award.

Anthony’s quiet good sense and judgment were of huge value to our College community, and many individual students experienced his wise and kind support.

For others, their most direct experience was an early morning appointment via the wooden waiting bench at the foot of the Rectory stairs. Transgressing the boundaries and values of our community was the subject of many a misconduct hearing under Anthony’s guidance. Encouraged to recognise the error of their ways, to demonstrate this through acts of community service and

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to express or develop remorse, drew on Anthony’s background as a solicitor, theologian and priest. Many of the duly admonished and sanctioned came to consider his interactions salutory learning opportunities.

Anthony was also the College Chaplain and an honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion. Not a musician himself, he was nevertheless a strong supporter of the Chapel choir and organists, many of whom return for annual reunion dinners at Hatfield, and to sing evensong in the Cathedral during the choristers half-term break.

Anthony’s theological specialism involves engaging in reading and interpreting the New Testament in an inter-disciplinary way.

For the last two decades or so, he has been writing and thinking about forgiveness and reconciliation in a modern setting and he recently published the fruits of his reflections as a book, Remorse: A Christian Perspective. Anthony taught theology to undergraduates, a masters module on Religion, Culture, and Conflict for the School of Government and International Affairs, and regularly taught a masters module on forgiveness.

Dr Ellen Crabtree Ellen was appointed to the post of Assistant Senior Tutor, later retitled Assistant Master, at Hatfield College starting in September 2016, returning to the Hatfield fold where she had been both an undergraduate and postgraduate student. She had also been a College Mentor at Hatfield since 2012.

Ellen Crabtree (née Dew) grew up in Warwickshire and attended Rugby High School before starting at Hatfield in 2007. She read for a Joint BA Honours in History and French with an Erasmus year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. She then completed a taught MA in Modern History, also at Hatfield, before moving to Newcastle University for her doctoral research on the political engagement of French historian Madeleine Rebérioux (1920-2005). She was the recipient of an AHRC Northern Bridge Studentship and the 2015 Ralph Gibson Prize awarded by the Society for the Study of French History.

Anthony took up his new post in the University Student Conduct office in July 2020, where his experience of students on good days and bad is no doubt highly valuable.

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Ellen’s work was key to the success of our College Student Support Office...

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Dr Ellen Crabtree at Floreat Awards 2020

Ellen’s work was key to the success of our College Student Support Office, her contribution greatly appreciated by our students, academic departments and specialist University support services alike. Colleges are central to Durham’s superb student support framework, and Ellen epitomised how this is best delivered through a focus on individual student needs, by collaboration with Student Welfare Teams and other University units, and with an overarching aim of enhancing student resilience.

Ellen played a key role in a number of Hatfield developments, notably our celebration and reflection on 30 years of women at Hatfield in 2018-19. Working with students to draw on archives, oral memories, memorabilia and photographs, an exhibition first in the dining hall and then in the Chapel, brought to light the battle to establish women in Hatfield and the experiences of our first women students. The 30 years celebratory weekend in October 2018, was a wonderful coming together of alumnae, alumni and current students, to learn, reflect,

compete on the sports field and above all to celebrate how our community has developed and the shared values that guide us.

Ellen also helped to bring Hatfield into the modern age through developing our presence on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She enabled new ventures, including Research Roulette for Freshers, providing an immediate window for newcomers into the fascinating research worlds of our higher year undergraduates and postgraduates, giving insight into disciplines closer and further afield.

In April 2020, Ellen took up her new post as Vice-Principal of University College, where we trust some fine Hatfield ways are finding a receptive new home.

Ann MacLarnon and Tim Burt (1996-2017) Masters

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Illustrated photograph of the University’s rugby XV of 1900/01 from the University Archive

From the Archive Arguably, the most significant addition to the whole University archive this year has been the illustrated photograph of the University’s rugby XV of 1900/01.

Apart from a good run of Boat Club group photos going back to the 1860s, the University archive is not as well blessed with early group photos of any sort as it might be. This one is actually now the earliest photo of the University rugby team

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by some 20 years. It is worth highlighting here as it shows that even at that date, Hatfield played a prominent part in the University’s rugby scene. Of course in 1901, the University then comprised the Colleges in Newcastle – Medicine and Science – as well as the Colleges in Durham, made up in effect of just University and Hatfield, along with the Unattached students (St Cuthbert’s Society). Overall, the majority of the then University’s resident students were based in Newcastle, and this is reflected in most of the university-wide

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teams, with rugby being no exception. It is also worth bearing in mind that good rugby players, such as these Hatfield students, would probably also have been representing Durham Colleges, which had its own representative team, as well of course as Hatfield, and possibly even the county and above.

Home matches for the University were generally shared between Durham and Heaton in Newcastle. In 1900/01, the University played 13 fixtures, winning 8, drawing 2 (both 0-0!), and losing 3.

Opponents were: Tynedale, Durham City, Durham School, Hartlepool Old Boys, North Durham, Sedbergh School, Tudhoe, Hartlepool Rovers, Northern, and Sunderland. Interestingly, the correspondent in the Durham University Journal (volume 14, p.152) considered that the University team laboured under something of a handicap in its matches with local opponents whose underhand tactics on occasion would not be stooped to by students: “The teams we play, for the most part, do not hesitate to adopt practices which, to say the least of it, are shady. The ‘Varsity teams cannot retaliate, and so are at a great disadvantage.” It was also suggested that the University ought rather to play other [university] teams from Oxford, Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.

Of Hatfield’s members of the University team in 1900/01, Walter R. Heath (BA 1901) and Leigh Smith (BA 1901) were half backs, and John C. Hill (BA 1902) and Charles G. King (BA 1903) were forwards. All were then awarded their palatinates, with Smith being also the Vice-Captain and Secretary.

Hill and Smith also variously captained Hatfield’s team, and Heath captained the Durham Colleges rugby XV in 1900/01 to which Hatfield contributed on occasion 10 players. All except King also represented at least Hatfield at football. Additionally, Heath was Captain of the College Fives

team, Hill was President of the College Choral society, and Smith was President of the College Chess club.

Hatfield featured in the final of the Dons’ Challenge Cup for College teams that year, unfortunately going down 19-0 to the Medicals, the winners of the inaugural competition the previous year. The College played 5 other rugby matches that season, against other Colleges and Durham School, being otherwise undefeated apart from the Dons’ Cup final.

The photo is a staged group one, typical of the period, with a variety of poses adopted by the participants. It is taken in a photographer’s studio. The participants are mostly in their university kit, which is a fascinating feature, showing the shirts of the date, mostly of hooped design, colours of course indeterminate. Some are wearing blazers, King’s being for 1900/01, with another being for the previous year.

We also have caps represented, a variety of socks, shorts, scarves, and Heath seems to have turned up largely in his rowing kit (blazer, jersey, shorts, scarf; he was President of DUBC that year). The image is by R.E. Ruddock, ‘Art Photographer’, of the Grand Studio Goldsmiths Hall, at the top of Pilgrim Street in Newcastle. The photograph came from a great-nephew of one of the College of Science players.

It now provides us with images of Hatfield rugby players a good generation earlier than the earliest College rugby group photo (1929). If there are any more such images out there looking for a good home, the archive would be delighted to hear of them.

Michael Stansfield College Archivist

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Tristan Stocker and Household 2 at the 2020 Christmas Formal

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Reflections of a First Year Student Under Covid-19

The Freps were great, always available and willing to answer questions to get us up to speed quickly and they definitely made the whole process a lot easier.

This year has been like no other and starting university was inevitably going bring a number of challenges for everyone, with freshers arguably one of the most affected groups.

The prospect of living in an entirely different part of the country without any knowledge of the surroundings or existing friends was nerve inducing, but also exciting after months of being stuck at home.

Freshers’ Week was certainly different from what I expected when I applied to Hatfield, but it was clear that a significant amount of effort went into trying to make it as enjoyable as possible. The Freps were great, always available and willing to answer questions to get us up to speed quickly and they definitely made the whole process a lot easier. Events such as University Matriculation were obviously not possible, but College did its best to give us something to remember with a matriculation taking place within households in the College Chapel rather than the Cathedral. Unfortunately, a number of occasions we anticipated enjoying had to be cut down or cancelled altogether to comply with government guidelines. However, as with matriculation, Hatfield pushed to maintain a sense of normality as much as possible. Formals 45

continued within households (although as yet I have not attended one) and special dinners, such as a lovely Christmas dinner with wine and crackers, were organised.

To complement these dinners, we’ve also had ‘fake formals’ where the JCR gave us money, as a household, to spend on food from a local restaurant, for occasions such as Halloween; these have been entertaining and a fantastic opportunity to get to know the people in our households better.

One of the activities I was most looking forward to when I got a place at Hatfield was rowing as it is something that I have never done before. I have only been to one Hatfield rowing training session so far, which was demanding but also very enjoyable to learn about a new sport and meet new people, and I look forward to getting more involved in the future! As luck would have it rowing, as well as all university sport, had to stop a few days later in response to updated government guidelines, but I recently got my HCBC stash fleece, which is clearly the real reason people sign up for rowing! I did also want to get more involved with the Hatfield community, which led me to apply for the Social Media Rep position – worthwhile for understanding the inner workings of the College and contributing a small amount to keeping everyone updated with the latest information.

The difficulty in meeting people in the rest of Hatfield, let alone other Colleges, due to restrictions was challenging, but allowed me to explore Durham by virtue of the fact that walking was one of the only available group activities. My fitness definitely improved with all the walking and I was incredibly grateful that Hatfield managed to open the College gyms while still abiding by government guidelines. It’s an excellent household activity and exercise is so important for mental health. This was especially important as a number of people, including me, within our household went through Covid and the self-isolation 46

period required as a result. Luckily, Hatfield has the tennis court so the household was able to exercise every day and I was glad to have brought a monitor so in the evenings some of us would watch a TV show or movie which was always a nice break after a day of working!

It may seem that this academic year has been somewhat disappointing, and clearly to some extent that is true. The lifestyle I imagined I would have as a member of Hatfield and the wider university in first year was not entirely possible as a result of the restrictions. However, it was my decision to come to university this year and Hatfield has done its best to give us an enjoyable first year despite the challenges compared to previous years.

I do envy all previous Hatfield members who were able to experience everything this wonderful College has to offer without any limitations. That being said, I have without a doubt enjoyed my time so far. I have learned so much already, made many memories, taken countless photos and found a great group of friends. At the time of writing this, I’m looking forward to the Easter Term with the easing of restrictions allowing for events such as the Hatfield Summer Ball. The University has also extended the academic year by a week to allow more events to take place which I am excited for!

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Celebrating College Matriculation in the Hatfield Chapel

Tristan Stocker and Household 2 celebrating Matriculation outside the Durham Cathedral

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An Ode to Hatfield In ‘65 we came a’journeying To Durham’s famous seat of learning Arriving then at Hatfield College With our youthful thirst for knowledge From North and South and West we came In awe of Durham’s august name Callow youths we were so keen To take advantage of that privileged scene To College, the Bailey and Shincliffe Hall We all dispersed to await the call From many a sportsfield or bar to frequent And one or two to serious studies went To Spanish, Social Studies, Geography too And even Honours Psychology – a heady brew Over the following months and years Strong friendships grew with fellow peers But far to soon was ‘68 Was it the last time through Hatfield’s gate But first a visit to Palace Green The fruits of our labour to be seen Many a Third, a Second or two A Gentleman’s degree for you know who Bags packed and off we go To meet again we never know But amazingly our small band has remained With ever close bonds attained And how easily in our group we find How close we are in thought and mind Please then raise a glass and cheer For absent friends hold back a tear Remember Withers and my old mate, Dennis Hopefully up there looking down on us Please also remember our partners fair Our recollections they must forbear And now to close – our College refrain Dunelmo! Dunelmo! – it’s Hatfield again.

John Elliott 1965-68

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We were delighted to celebrate the many academic and extra-curricular achievements of Hatfielders.

In the summer of 2020, of 293 Hatfield undergraduate students who completed their studies, 128 gained first class honours.

Many of these students accepted their invitation to attend the Virtual Floreat Event on 24 July 2020. (see page 7 of the Master’s letter)

Juliane Deli Music Olivia Doody Liberal Arts (with year abroad) Rosie Glover Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad) Antonia Hamilton Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad)

First Class Honours

Sophie Hare Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad)

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Samuel Honnywill History

Henrietta Allen English Literature

Francesca Howard English Literature

Isobel Asti English Literature

Fiona Matthews Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad)

Sharah Athayde English Literature Natasha Bagnall English Literature Daniel Brooks Liberal Arts Thomas Burgess Music Harriet Burns Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad) Matthew Callow Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad) George Chilvers History

Anthony Morris History Lisa Prescott Ancient Medieval & Modern History Ottilie Price English Literature Florence Rayner English Literature (with year abroad) Samuel Rees Music Rebecca Rudd English Literature Lewis Russell English Literature

Henry Cook History

Barnabas Sampson Modern European Laguages & Culture (with year abroad)

Sophie Davies Jones Liberal Arts

John Shelton History

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Chloe Smith English Literature Benjamin Smith History Harri Thomas Classics Charlotte Way Liberal Arts (with year abroad)

Robert Sullivan Economics

Faculty of Science Dipali Ambasna Psychology (Science) Thavish Annal Physics & Astronomy

Kaler Wong History

Cydonie Ashbridge Psychology (Science)

Anna van der Star Modern Laguages & Culture (with year abroad)

Lars Bentsen General Engineering

Faculty of Business George Davies Business & Management Xinning Fan Marketing & Management Annabel Gorst Economics Julian Iacovone Marketing & Management Philippa Jones Economics Alexandre Kaminov Economics Henry Morgan Economics Lauren Palacios Economics Charlotte Phillipson Business & Management Charlotte Saxby Business & Management Giacomo Saxton Economics & Management Robert Stenson Economics & Management

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Iona Biggart Psychology (Science) Raja Aiman Balqis Binti Raja Mazuir Geoscience Isabel Brooks Biomedical Sciences George Carter Physics & Astronomy Benjamin Collins Physics (4 year) Andreas Conte Natural Sciences Lily Denham Natural Sciences Lukas Dohm-Karatjas Mathematics (4 year) James Everitt Mathematics (European Studies) Laura Harries Natural Sciences Cameron Jones Natural Sciences Kristen Keen Psychology (Science) Joseph Kelly Biological Sciences Charles Lee Physics

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Laura Lopez Odrioxola Chemistry (4 year)

Charlotte Simpson Biological Sciences

Charlotte Lynch Physics (4 year)

Bradley Sims General Engineering

James Maloney Mathematics (4 year)

Rory Sutton Geology

Oliver McDonald Natural Sciences

Laura Swinton Natural Sciences

Rina Mjeku General Engineering

Thomas Watson Computer Science

Jessica Muurman Biomedical Sciences

Leyna Watson May Mathematics (4 year)

Benjamin Norris Physics (4 year)

Natalie Webster Natural Sciences

Jacob Orgee Chemistry

Michael Woollatt General Engineering

Patrick Osborne Geoscience William Panton General Engineering

Faculty of Social Sciences & Health

Lucy Pearce Psychology (Science)

Isobel Allchurch Geography

Joshua Pena General Engineering

Bertie Bateman Sociology

Megan Perry Biomedical Scienes

Aisling Bevan Archaeology (Science)

James Petley Physics & Astronomy

Henry Biggs Ancient History & Archaeology

Kamran Rachlin Natural Sciences (with year abroad)

Tsakani Brauer-Maxaeia Law

Louis Robinson Natural Sciences Pawel Rudnicki Mathematics (4 year) Amy Saunders Chemistry (International) Honor Seddon Biological Sciences Samuel Seldon Natural Sciences Zhongwei Shi Computer Science

Felicity Challinor Geography Wang Hei Cheung Law Lucy Etheridge Philosophy, Politics & Economics Benjamin Fowles Geography (Science) Georgina Gorvin Politics Quinn Higgins Combined Honours in Social Science

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Natassia Kazanskaya Geography

In addition to celebrating academic successes, named prizes and awards, College Colours, and Clubs, Societies and Teams Colours were awarded to students who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the Hatfield community during their time in Durham.

Natasha Lambert Combined Social Science (4 year)

College Colours were awarded to nine students.

Emily Hutton Geography Daniel Jukes Law Topias Karlsson Law

Caroline Lewis Geography (Science) Madeline Lock Education Studies – English Studies Chiara Longo Law Declan Merrington Education Studies – History Francesca O’Neill Geography (Science)

Clubs, Societies and Teams full colours were awarded to 28 students, half colours were awarded to 11 students and a further 36 Hatfielders received a special commendation. It was good to see many of these students, as well as mentors from the SCR celebrating at the Virtual Floreat event.

Frances Raymond Sport Exercise & Physical Activity

College Named Prizes and Awards

Florence Russell Geography (with Year Abroad)

Chloe Sweetland Michael Crossley Shield

Zachary Salmon Law

Will Whipple Cynthia Connolly Cup

Thomas Scott Education Studies – Geography

Sam Goring SCR Award

Zoe Tilsiter Geography

Will Monaghan Hatfield Trust Trophy

Anna Trelawny Health & Human Sciences

Thavish Annal Barrie Wetton Prize

Harry Tyler Combined Honours in Social Sciences

Barney Sampson Whitworth Trophy

Aurelia Waltham Geography

Izzie Asti Rik Coldwell Award

Guanlin Wang Archaeology & Ancient Civilisations

Richard Sheng Hatfield Trust Award

Nicholas Whitehead Combined Social Science (4 year) Iona Young Politics (with year abroad)

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Juliane Deil Gilbert Larwood Prize Stephanie Kenna Spencer Regan Shield

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College Colours James Everitt Quinn Higgins Henry Hoyle Alex Kaminov Kelly-Ann McAulay

to collect a celebratory drink and Hatfield Scholars’ cupcake from the College Chapel on the afternoon of the event, so that everyone could join together in a toast at the virtual ceremony. We were delighted that College Staff, Mentors and Senior Common Room members zoomed in from various locations to share the special occasion.

Isaac Rudden Tom Scott Bradley Sims

Max Hart picking up his Scholars’ Dinner treat in the College Chapel

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Orations for Major College Awards Chloe Sweetland, winner of Michael Crossley Shield 2020, with Timba

The Michael Crossley shield is awarded to Chloe Sweetland for her outstanding contribution to College life throughout her time at Hatfield.

Thavish Annal - Barrie Wetton Prize for behind the scenes contributions to College life.

Thavish Annal, winner of Barrie Wetton Prize 2020

Chloe Sweetland – Michael Crossley Shield for outstanding contribution to College life.

Chloe says herself how much the Hatfield community has supported her, and she in turn has given back in so many ways. From Social Media Rep, to Post Offer Visit Day Rep and Frepping, to JCR Secretary, when amongst many other actions, twice a week, every week, she quietly set up Formal sign up in Teikyo, where 40 of our Freshers were housed as Jevons was renovated.

Recognising her talents for leadership and action, Chloe was elected as Senior Man (2018-2019). Amongst many acts of leadership and diplomacy in this role, she set about building the case for the Senior Man role to become sabbatical including through demonstrating the value of College representation on university-wide bodies, despite doing all this alongside her academic studies as a non-sabbatical, and the electorate responded. After finishing her term of office, Chloe continued to play an active role in a final test of her skills. In this, her finalist year, she has quietly served on the welfare team, and reactivated Voices our non-auditioned choir. Chloe is a Hatfielder through and through, from her sporting the colour blue on every possible occasion, to her absolute dedication to participation and service to others.

Right from my very first days at Hatfield it was evident to me that Thavish was quietly key to so many activities, be it as a stalwart member of the welfare team, to clearing up after every event, to creating a practical guide for putting back the jigsaw of Hatfield dining tables after the room had been cleared for a Ceilidh or Ball, to keeping everyone cheery for Freshers’ Sunday in the rain. Thavish is practical, caring, takes care of things before anyone thinks to ask, and all with his ever present smile and cheery words of encouragement.

The Barrie Wetton Prize is awarded to Thavish Annal for his very significant ‘behind the scenes’ contributions to College life throughout his time at Hatfield.

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Baxter Prizes and College Scholars

Harry Fluck Mathematics (4 year)

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Adam Iqbal Mathematics (4 year)

Louis Cardoe Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad) Imogen Higgins English Literature Theo Kochberg Modern European Languages & History (with year abroad) Jess Norton Raybould Music Oliver Phillips Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad) Chloe Yorke Chinese Studies (with year abroad)

Faculty of Business Oliver Brown Finance Ashlyn Holliday Accounting Finance Placement Jingchun Li Finance

Annabel Fredericks General Engineering

Faculty of Social Sciences & Health Isaac Eastham Sport, Exercise & Physical Activity Mark Spooner Combined Social Science (4 year) Emma Williams Education Studies, Psychology Sasha Zaroubin Combined Honours in Social Science

College Scholars Faculty of Arts & Humanities Evgenia Alexandrova English Literature Sophie Alibert English Literature Gilah Allardice Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad)

Yizhi Zhang Accounting & Finance

Barnaby Baker Modern Languages & Culture (with year abroad)

Faculty of Science

Dominic Cornfield Chinese Studies (with year abroad)

Alexander Ainley Carruthers Mathematics Emily Baker Physics (4 year) Alexander Cooke Natural Sciences

Dylan Cresswell History Francesca d’Enno English Literature Charles Gee Classics

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Eloise Gibbins Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad) Jemima Gurney Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad) Jonathan Head English Literature Amy Howlett Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad)

Joshua Butler Economics Constance Byé Economics with Management (with study abroad) Ziyi Fang Accounting & Management Edward Faulkner Accounting Finance Placement William Fildes Economics with Management

William Hutchings English Literature

Shuchen Ge Economics

Aleksandrea Karkoszka Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad)

Edward George Business & Management

Imogen Levine Modern Language & History (with year abroad) Elenor Maddock Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad) Harriet Pandeli History Heléna Quinn Theology & Religion Florence Singer English Literature Oliver Stockley English Literature Caitlin Sturrock Modern Language & Culture (with year abroad) Caragh Taylor History Maggie Wong Japanese Studies (with year abroad)

Faculty of Business Cassandra Baptiste Accounting & Finance

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Joseph Gibber Economics Cameron Greenshields Finance Daniel Harding Economics Pernille Hyggen Economics with Management Emilia Impey Marketing & Management Edward Innes Business & Management Jiayu Jia Finance Zhixin Jin Finance Jo Kok Economics with Placement Year Harry Le Maistre Economics Siyi Liu Accounting & Finance Li Liu Accounting & Finance Fengyue Lu Accounting & Finance

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Yuefei Luo Finance Corisande Lyster-Binns Accounting & Finance Alexia Milliken Finance Sasha Munn Economics Valeriia Paliichuk Marketing & Management James Phillips-Evans Finance Thomas Prentis Economics with Management with Placement

Zhiguang Zhang Finance

Faculty of Science Samsaam Baig Computer Science (Ordinary) Archie Baldock Natural Sciences Emily Barker Biological Sciences Frederick Bloomfield Chemistry (4 year) Matthew Brown Natural Sciences

Harry Rees Finance with Placement Year

Kate Burn Psychology (Science)

Daniel Smith Accounting & Finance

Ned Carmichael Mathematics (4 year)

Lihyeon So Marketing & Management

Adam Carruthers Mathematics

Edward Spinks Business & Management

Olivia Cavalieri Natural Sciences

Michael Stalley Business & Management

Jonathan Cherrett Computer Science

Benjamin Stewart Economics

Ekaterina Chukseeva Psychology (Science)

Yixuan Sun Finance

Rose Clark Biological Sciences

Mann-Shiuan Tzeng Finance with Placement Year

Mia Connor Chemistry (4 year)

Aron Wates Economics with Management

Charlotte Cox Psychology (Science)

Rhys Williams Economics

Oliver Daniels Physics

Tamerlan Yessekeyev Economics with Management with Placement Year

Amy Davies Biological Sciences

Yvonne Yip Economics

Harry Davies Natural Sciences

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Rordon Daws Mathematics (4 year)

Jacob Holmes Mathematics (4 year)

Paul Dirk Physics

Angelica Hopton Natural Sciences

Austin Doherty Physics & Astronomy

Kamran Hornby Mathematics (4 year)

Alexander Down Natural Sciences

Nancy Hughes Natural Sciences

Emily Duerden Chemistry (4 year)

Patrick Hurley Theoretical Physics

Felix Fawcett Natural Sciences

Arnolds Ievins-Brambis Computer Science

Joel Fekkes Chemistry (4 year)

Kevin Irvanipour Computer Science

Tsz Ming Foo General Engineering

Oliver Jones Biosciences

Alexander Forbes-Leith General Engineering

Michael Jones Mathematics (4 year)

Andrew Galloway Mathematics

Rebecca Judge Mathematics

Alec Garrett-Cox Natural Sciences (Ordinary)

Ryan Key Computer Science

Nieve Gauvain Psychology (Science)

Sarah Kirk Physics (4 year)

Alice Godridge Psychology (Science)

Jack Kirk Mathematics (4 year)

James Goodhall Computer Science

Charles Knapp Computer Science

Florence Goodhart Psychology (Science)

Alexandra Krajewski Computer Science

Thomas Gourley Psychology (Science)

Ryan Lail Computer Science

Eleanor Gray Psychology (Science)

Frederick Lawie General Engineering

Ailin Han Psychology (Science)

Carrie-Lea Lewis Mathematics

Max Hart Natural Sciences

Benedict Lewis General Engineering

Michael Heron Mathematics (4 year)

James Maitland General Engineering

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Eleanor Marles General Engineering

Natalie Phillips Biological Sciences

Yasmin McGeoch Psychology (Science)

Jordan Picken Mathematics (4 year)

Joe Mckeon Theoretical Physics

Luca Pittalis Biological Sciences

Jack McNeill Natural Sciences

Oliver Platt General Engineering

George Means Physics

Tamsin Priest Mathematics

Andrew Midenda Physics (4 year)

Tobias Priestley General Engineering

Isabella Mifsud Psychology (Science)

John Reeve Physics

Stuart Milne Mathematics (4 year)

Alfred Renn Physics (4 year)

Matthew Moran Mathematics (4 year)

Naomi Rescorla-Brown Chemistry (4 year)

Shannon Morrison Mathematics

Samantha Rogers Biosciences

George Oakland Computer Science

James Rose Chemistry (International)

Thomas O’Farrell Psychology (Science)

Mary Rylands Chemistry (4 year)

Maya O’Sullivan Physics (4 year)

Thalia Seale Mathematics

Lucy Pallent Natural Sciences

Christopher Sharman Mathematics

India Palmer-Tomkinson Physics (4 year)

Alice Slattery Earth Sciences

Alexander Paraskos Natural Sciences

Theresa Sommer Psychology (Science)

Henry Paremain General Engineering

Benjamin Spinks Computer Science

Harry Parker Physics (4 year)

Jamie Stirling Computer Science

Velina Petkova Chemistry (4 year)

Edmondo Strada Natural Sciences

Pierre-Louis Peuch Physics (4 year)

Karolina Szwak Psychology (Science)

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Ellen Talbot Natural Sciences

Dominic Bonham-Lloyd Combined Honours in Social Science

Anton Tavitian Chemistry (4 year)

Jake Carr Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Benjamin Taylor Physics (4 year)

Samantha Carswell Sociology

Max Taylor Chemistry

Maia Dilloway Combined Honours in Social Science

Sandeep Thapa Computer Science

Rachel Doyle Primary Education

Eden Thiede-Palmer Physics

Hanne Gravningen Criminology

Tazeena Thorowgood Biological Sciences

Amelia Holden Archaeology & Ancient Civilisations

Cameron Thurlow Natural Sciences

Stephanie Kenna Primary Education

James Took General Engineering

Emily Kirkby Combined Honours in Social Science

Frank Watkinson Chemistry (Industrial)

Tateeyia Mann Health & Human Sciences

Joseph Weller Physics (4 year)

Emma Martinelli Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Holly Whitehouse General Engineering

Phiannon Melass Primary Education

Tianhao Xu Psychology (Science)

Mary Neale-Smith Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Yanji Yang Theoretical Physics

Adele Parry Education Studies – Psychology

Katie Yau Psychology (Science)

Joshua Powell Geography (Science)

Nicholas Yelland Mathematics (4 year)

Aoife Silke Ancient History & Archaeology

Hao Zhang Mathematics (4 year)

Shauna Townsend Archaeology (Social Sciences)

Faculty of Social Sciences & Health

Theo Wnnington-Ingram Law Jingxuan Yang Education Studies – Psychology

Eleannor Agu Benson Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Joseph Zietman Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Jake Allen Sport Exercise & Physical Activity

Congratulations to all our graduates and prize winners!

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Staff Awards

David Embleton by B Stairs entrance

Students’ Award for the Most Supportive Member of Staff David Embleton (College Operations Manager)

Master’s Award for the Outstanding Member of Staff Robert Marsh (College Porter)

College Officers’ Award for the Best Staff Team The Chef’s Team: • • • • • • • • •

Colin Thompson Beverley Hall Malcolm Lukins Paul Lightfoot Claire Traynor Michael Dunn James McCance Paul Clifford Ahmed Odeh

Bob Marsh in the Birley Room with packed student possessions cleared for Critical Workers

Head Chef Colin Thompson, Deputy Head Chef Bev Hall and the chef’s team at Lion in Winter Ball 2020

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The HCBC lockdown Zoom quiz had to be ended with a tie breaker determined by who was wearing the most ridiculous fancy dress

Boat Club For every rower, it is a truth universally acknowledged that rowing can have its frustrating moments. Using every muscle in the body, requiring strength, power and cardiovascular endurance, it is widely regarded as one of the world’s toughest sports.

We train all year, enduring early morning outings and blisters, all in the pursuit of that feeling of being in perfect synchronisation with your crew, only for a sudden head tilt to offset the boat and cause a dip to one side. That’s when we’re lucky enough to get on the water. Rowers are well accustomed to the frustration of cancelled outings due to poor weather, whether it be flooding, gale-force wind or icy shards on the water, all a common occurrence in Durham. However, none of that compares to the frustration brought on by Covid-19, denying us everything we

love about rowing. We miss gliding along the water seeing Durham in all its beauty.

We miss the adrenaline felt before a race and the ecstatic feeling of crossing the finish line, and we miss all the moments in between that make the sport enigmatically addictive. As well as improving our physical health, we miss the service rowing did for our mental health, helping us to combat the stress of University life.

However, above all, we all miss seeing each other. Whether it be yoga outside the boathouse, a fancy dress social, a race day road trip or a fitness session to 80s club music, Hatfield College Boat Club is one of the most vibrant, friendly and supportive student-run societies in Durham. We cater for novices and seniors, rowers and coxes, those wanting to get involved once or twice a week to those enthusiastic to don a unisuit and train every day. Therefore, when the news sunk in that we would be unable to return to Durham for the much-anticipated regatta season, we were

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The Boat Club men enjoying a sunny afternoon on the Wear

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inevitably devastated. However, I am proud to have this opportunity to highlight the exceptional efforts made to keep the Club going this year. We were among the first to jump on the Zoom bandwagon and host a very HCBC quiz. Our Social Secretaries put our general knowledge to the test, including our Durham and rowing trivia.

After three heats and one fancy-dress final, the 21 quizzers demonstrated that HCBC has both brains as well as brawn.

Speaking of brawn, we competed in a virtual exercise contest against other College boat clubs. Over a month, our task was to log as many minutes running, cycling or erging. HCBC was jumping in and out of the podium for much of the competition, however, a final effort propelled us to win gold!

Jumping ahead to September, we had a busy number of weeks planning the Club’s safe return to the water. We updated our risks assessments, attended Covid training, sourced cleaning supplies, bought new equipment and tidied the boathouse, which was no small feat. We even gardened the boathouse exterior, which, after months of neglect, resembled more of a jungle than a landing stage.

Thanks to our efforts and funding from the College Trust and Hatfield Association, we were the first College Boat Club on the water, managing to squeeze three weeks of outings in beautiful autumnal sunshine before we were surprised with a November national lockdown and the subsequent Winter lockdown after that.

coxes. We are delighted to be welcoming them into the Club in the next few months.

Reflecting on my three years at Durham, choosing Hatfield and learning to row at HCBC was the best decision of my life. To lead a community of fun-loving, compassionate people as President has been an incredible privilege. Whatever the Easter Term may bring, I know I have made friends for life at HCBC and the Club will always triumph. However, it is my sincere wish that this term will be everything we hope it will be. From races to socials to gentle paddles along the Wear on beautiful summer evenings, it is the Durham we have missed, and one we look forward to enjoying once again.

Ella Bicknell President

The Boat Club women taking a break during their morning outing to snap a picture by Prebends bridge

One thing this pandemic has taught us students is to make the most of everything, especially at Durham where you’re presented with limitless opportunities in your brief time as a student. It was amazing to see that enthusiasm among the freshers despite their university experience being limited by the pandemic. Incredibly, we had over 100 sign-ups at the Freshers’ Fair to join the Club as novice rowers or

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Floodlit Cup holders 2020-21 (Covid stopped play), Hatfield College Football Club, after Cup victory in 2019

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Football Club (Men) After the abrupt end to the previous season, the 2020/21 football season began with a fresh wave of uncertainty due to the continuing coronavirus restrictions. Despite this being a year in which we were unable to follow the traditional football schedule and social calendar, it did not stop us from making the most of the circumstances.

From the footballing perspective, the most notable event of the year was the freshers’ trial. This was split into two separate trials in order to observe the limit of 30 players on the pitch at any time, but in the absence of the customary introductory social it served as an excellent way of briefly meeting the new budding College footballers. This was followed by a trial match during a training slot in which a team consisting of freshers pulled off a remarkable 3-2 comeback victory against a more experienced team. Further restrictions in November brought all football to a halt, but plenty of promise was shown from the new intake in the small amount of football that was played, and it was reassuring to see that the future of the Club is in safe hands.

The lack of the famous HCAFC socials provided an opportunity for the focus off the pitch to turn elsewhere. In particular, there was a large push to encourage involvement in the Club’s attempt to raise money for Movember. This year, we collectively raised £2750, almost doubling our total from the previous year and securing us a place on the top 10 fundraising leader board for all sports

...there was a large push to encourage involvement in the Club’s attempt to raise money for Movember.

This year, we collectively raised £2750 almost doubling our total from the previous year.

clubs throughout the University. There were a number of excellent efforts from club members across all years, but a special mention goes to Alex Carruthers and Fraser Graham for playing darts non-stop for 24 hours as part of their endeavours.

The future does show promise with plans for full fixtures to return during the summer term and the prospect of finally being able to host the much-awaited socials before the end of term.

Despite the disruption this year, the hope is that normal service will be able to resume next year and that the traditions, socials and team spirit that have been at the heart of the Club for so long continue to be passed on.

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Running Club Turnout for rounders at Whinney Hill, Saturday morning of Freshers’ Week 2019

Rounders Club Hatfield Rounders Club, like many of our fellow sports and societies, have not had the most eventful year (not on the Rounders pitch at least!).

If you’ve taken up a new sport during lockdown, a good bet is that you’ve started to run. When all university and College Park Run races were cancelled this academic year, 139 Hatfield athletes turned to Strava to log their progress. At the height of the first lockdown, club members like Freddie Bloomfield and Luca Pittalis embarked on 19-mile loops around London while others, including Anton Tavitian, took to doing countless laps of the Durham racecourse as a substitute for a track.

Our new Executive Committee was elected towards the end of Easter Term of last year, with myself as Captain, Hannah Davis as Treasurer, Jess Norton Raybould as Coach and Yusuf Cimcoz as Social Secretary.

Though disappointed by the lack of Rounders played so far, we enthusiastically await the chance to return to play – armed with as many freshers as we can drag along - as soon as possible. The Rounders bats are being dusted off (and thoroughly disinfected) and whilst things may look a little different in the coming summer from previous years, we are nevertheless incredibly excited to be back playing Rounders in the Durham sunshine (fingers crossed) very soon.

A highlight this year was the Hatfield vs Castle running competition, where we tallied a total of 1195 miles in just seven days – 110 miles more than Castle – to raise money for DASH (a local homelessness charity) in partnership with the Hatfield Charity Committee.

Impressive contributions from Emily Roseballer, Alana Mann, Owen Robinson, Mikey Young, Kathryn Rogers, Tom Lipton and Alice Cox, who all logged over 30 miles, demonstrated undeniable depth to the Club this season. As we close on the third year since Hatfield Running Club’s inception, its consistent top three finishes in the College league table and continual growth in membership has deservedly gained us a reputation for being one of the strongest among the University’s Colleges – a position we hope to continue as lockdown eases and running races return in the forthcoming season.

Elise Jeffrey

Luca Pittalis

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2020 Hatfield Freshers’ Ultimate Frisbee Team, celebrating second place in Freshers’ Tournament

Ultimate Frisbee With the few training sessions that I was able to run with HUF, I have been excited by the engagement of both our new and returning players. With around 50 sign-ups at the Freshers’ Fair and the return of our existing squad, many of whom have been regularly training with Team Durham’s Ultimate Frisbee, the future of HUF is looking bright.

Our Treasurer, Patrick Hurley, was great at organising informal frisbee throwing sessions during lockdown when we were able to meet outside in pairs and small groups. When sport was not permitted, our Social Secs, Jacob Holmes and Freddie Lawie, kept us entertained with their

inventive Zoom socials. Behind the scenes, we have also invested in some new club frisbees with a sleek new design. Let’s hope these can be enjoyed by the future generations of HUF before they inevitably end up in the bushes surrounding Hatfield’s tennis court!

At the time of writing this, we are looking forward to the return of sport in the third term. The Durham HAT tournament will likely go ahead this summer, which will give HUF the opportunity to play in mixed teams with other Durham and non-Durham frisbee players of all abilities. The aim for our final term is to get as many Hatfielders involved in HUF as possible, hopefully playing some friendlies with fellow Colleges to investigate the competition for next season!

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Chapel Choir The Choir returned in September with a somewhat unusual start to the year, with all auditions taking place in the relative comfort of our bedrooms. However, through the trials of Zoom and online auditions, we managed to put together a choir hopeful for Services to begin again in 2020! Tragedy struck soon into term when we discovered that our weekly evensongs could only go ahead following government guidance around interacting in households. Thankfully, we had some brilliant, keen freshers who were very fortunately living in the same household bubble in College.

Throughout Michaelmas we were challenged with unusual repertoire by composers such as Dufay, Monteverdi and Lassus, and Hatfield Chapel was transformed back to the days of plainchant and monastic singing. This didn’t last for long though, as our colleague and friend, Will Sims, composed a set of Lockdown Responses written for “Household Choir”.

We christened the newly named “Chapel Green” with an outdoor Remembrance Service of wreath laying and hymns which was remarkably well attended despite the limitations of social distancing. The highlight of these unusual Evensong arrangements culminated in our Celebration of Nine Lessons and Carols, led by the Canon Michael Everitt, where we performed Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols rearranged for Sopranos, Tenor and Organ.

Epiphany Term started much as Michaelmas ended, with our Household Choir increased to two whole households!

With some very careful tweaking of repertoire, we managed to perform an (almost) normal service of Evensong each week. The Choir also put out recordings to lift the spirits of our growing Facebook congregation, with Ewens/Jones arrangement of Blooming Heather for Burns’ Night Supper, Ash Wednesday, a Tenebrae Service for Passiontide, extracts from Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs for Easter Sunday, as well as other anthems.

By Easter Term we were able to have a socially distanced choir, and we definitely made the most of it with large anthems such as Byrd Sing Joyfully, Hadley My Beloved Spake, and Harris Faire is the Heaven. It was great to finally see all the members we had auditioned several months earlier and give a proper send off to our graduating members. Though it was a tough year, we navigated the challenges of Chaplains, Covid, Livestreams, and plainchant with enthusiasm every week.

We are very grateful to the visiting Chaplains for all the support they offered Hatfield Chapel Choir this year, and Professor Ann MacLarnon and Janet Raine for ensuring that Services took place. Finally, I would like to thank and congratulate Miles MacLachlan, Alice Latham, Beth Yates, and Adam Whitmore for their tremendous efforts throughout the year, their unwavering enthusiasm, and the remarkable achievement of delivering a service each and every week of this year.

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Hatfield College Charity Committee Whilst we have been unable to assume some of our usual projects such as Awkward Formal and Valentine’s chocolate hearts, we have had the opportunity to work on more projects with DUSVO (Durham University Student Volunteering and Outreach) and University College.

In terms of fundraising, our distancedbased competition with University College managed to raise over £1000 for DASH and Teenage Cancer Trust, with students walking close to 4000km combined. We are also working on another fundraising project for Hatfield-Castle Day. We opened our Charity Toastie Bar in Michaelmas Term and conducted a Red Nose Day cupcake collection in Epiphany.

Charity Committee fundraising update in competition against Castle

Despite being limited by coronavirus, Hatfield Charity Committee (HCC) has operated to the best of its ability, trying to provide socially distanced opportunities for volunteering and fundraising throughout College.

Enabled by new separate fundraising and volunteering subsections, the scope of HCC has widened and hopefully in the subsequent years we will see wider College participation.

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On the volunteering side of things, our fantastic Vice-Chair of volunteering, Alex Gallucci, has been working closely with DUSVO on projects such as the Green Move out Programme, Christmas Card Projects, School Mentoring and the Once a Month Project.

Our aim is to get volunteering and fundraising ingrained in College life and hopefully now that Hatfield Charity Committee has been established for two years, there is a better foundation for the next Executive Committee.

Ruby Debell Chair

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Hatfield College presents Antigone by Sophocles online March 2021, directed by Visiting Drama Fellow, Jake Murray. (Cast above)

Hatfield Drama Club Theatre and performing arts have been heavily affected by the pandemic over the last year. For many students at Hatfield, drama is a large part of Durham student life; rehearsals every evening and performing in spaces around Durham regularly.

Inevitably, this was difficult this year because of Covid restrictions. Nevertheless, organised by the Master, Professor Ann MacLarnon, a group of Hatfield students, led by the award-winning Theatre Director, Jake Murray, began meeting virtually every week in Michaelmas Term. At first, Jake

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...online rehearsals definitely had its perks for me: sitting in slippers and not having to learn lines!

began taking us through audition and monologue techniques until we stumbled upon the Greek tragedy Antigone in one of the rehearsals. Jake calls it “the greatest political drama ever written … a roller coaster of emotion”, and upon our initial reading of it, we agreed at the great power of language this play held. It seemed uncannily apt for the present moment, when the conflict between the State and the Individual remains in turmoil around the world.

At the beginning of Epiphany Term, we spread the word about Antigone, gaining more talented actors to join our group.

With a range of experience and a mixture of freshers, second, third year and masters’ students, we began rehearsals for Antigone via Zoom. Rehearsing online is a concept that was new to us all, and although delayed responses and bad connections can be disruptive, online rehearsals definitely had its perks for me: sitting in slippers and not having to learn lines! With a pre-recording on Zoom the week before, we released the play online on 20 March 2021 making one of the first Durham plays not only accessible to a Durham student

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Director of Antigone, Visiting Drama Fellow, Jake Murray

audience, but to anyone in the world. It was a unique experience considering I had not met many of the cast face-to-face (hopefully at some point we will!) but it allowed us to really focus on Sophocles’ thought-provoking language, and our own characterisation. I feel very grateful to work with a professional Director, for Jake’s insight, experience and expertise. I hope Hatfield actors continue making Hatfield proud and proving that a pandemic cannot stop the world of creative art!

Alana Mann Actor

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Feminist Society Despite the circumstances, Hatfield Feminists have had a great year this year. We have made the best of the situation and have found that our membership levels have still managed to increase this year which we are thrilled about!

Elise Jeffery at the FemSoc table at Freshers’ Fair 2020

Michaelmas Term was unfortunately fairly uneventful as we navigated the changing restrictions and were sceptical about online discussion groups. We did however get involved in the ‘Zoom social’ craze and managed to get creative with our first Zoom social of the year featuring a scavenger hunt.

Epiphany Term was packed throughout with events and discussion groups.

Before the start of Epiphany Term, our new structure was approved, and the new Assistant Senior Feminist Reps were elected each with a specific role, and each Assistant Senior Rep was given a junior to work with. This meant that over the three categories: campaigns, outreach and socials we saw a flurry of activity led and supported by the Senior Feminist Rep. This year, we organised some great campaigns including a body positivity campaign featuring a podcast with Hatfield Welfare and an Instagram giveaway.

We held a talk by DASH (a local charity tackling homelessness, particularly through their vulnerable women’s project) followed by a walking/running challenge through which all the Exec then raised over £900.

We also made a video for International Women’s Day about why Hatfielders are feminists.

We held weekly discussion groups on a range of topics from ‘is marriage inherently

anti-feminist?’ to ‘the power of birth control’ which were very well attended despite having to take place on Zoom. As well as this we had many online socials, including a joint social with the other communities in Hatfield, and a Netflix party movie night. We also began to plan for a very exciting panel event for Easter Term. We are so excited for our events to hopefully begin in person again starting from summer term.

Our social media presence also grew, and we featured many Instagram take-overs as well as Female Creator Fridays every week.

And our Facebook group chat now has 73 members which is absolutely fantastic.

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Feminist Society Social poster and Debate & Discussion poster from Instagram

time for a change. Elise, Senior Feminist Rep, proposed a referendum, which unfortunately did not make it through the JCR vote, but we are keen to start a bigger conversation about the power of gendered language going forward. Excitingly the first female Senior Man, Yolande Wright, will be attending our panel event in Easter Term, which we believe will start a great conversation about the history of women in Hatfield.

All in all, we have had a great year and can’t wait to carry on growing as a community. We would like to say a big

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thank you to Elise our Senior Feminist Rep (who is now taking up a position on the JCR Executive Committee as Communities Officer) for her great leadership and support! And we would like to wish a fond goodbye to Beth and Maddie (the founders of our community) who will be leaving at the end of the year who will be greatly missed.

Laura Smith Assistant Senior Feminist Rep

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Kinky Jeff and the Swingers back together again for socially distanced rehearsals in the Palace Green marquee!

Kinky Jeff and The Swingers This year has been a year like no other for Kinky Jeff.

With gigs, tours and rehearsals cancelled, the new Exec comprising Leah Collins (President), Alex Down (Musical Director), Ollie Stockley (Producer), Lydia Rae Stephenson (Treasurer), Alex AinleyCarruthers (Social Secretary) and Archie Holder (Social Secretary) had to band together and try something new. We successfully held our virtual auditions in October, welcoming three freshers to the band. Despite the Covid restrictions, we managed to pull together an online version of our annual ‘Kinkiest Fresher’ social, which was an entertaining way to throw the new members into the KJ family.

Over the summer, we created a series of well received ‘Lockdown Recordings’ which included I Will Survive, and The Girl from Ipanema. Following this great reception, we created the KJ Christmas CD, and raised £435.31. This money has been put towards a number of purchases, including a new bass amp and microphone for the band. The Hatfield Trust was also fantastic this year, funding a new cocktail drum kit which our drummer has enjoyed using recently.

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thinking cap, and organised some virtual rehearsals after the Christmas break, which were brilliant for keeping the Kinky Jeff vibe ticking along. Thankfully, third term is looking good for us as we have successfully booked a handful of gigs, and we’re back to weekly in person rehearsals.

After the confusing months that 2020 and 2021 brought us, it’s not clear what next academic year will bring, but we know that, sadly, we’ll be losing a few members to new adventures. Sam Goring, one of our tenor saxophonists, has played with the band for the last four years, and as such he’ll be missed greatly. Ollie Stockley, an alto saxophonist and this year’s Producer, is going to pursue a programme in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, and he takes our well wishes with him. We

may also lose Lydia Rae Stephenson, our vocalist, tenor saxophonist and this year’s Treasurer, and Yusuf Cimcoz, our drummer.

They’ll both be successful in whatever their future endeavours will be; they have contributed so heavily to the Kinky Jeff family that their presence will be hugely missed.

No matter what happens next year, Kinky Jeff and the Swingers won’t give up, we’ll keep rehearsing, gigging, and touring, and making Hatfield proud every step of the journey.

Leah Collins President

The new drum kit, funded by the Hatfield Trust, being put to good use by KJ drummer, Yusuf Cimcoz

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Lumley Ball When I was appointed as Lumley Ball Chair in April 2020, I never expected to be in the position our team is in today.

Hatfield’s 2020 Summer Solstice Ball logo designed by Tanisha Jha

Planning for the Ball started promptly, in the hope that Covid-19 would not prevent the magical Lumley Ball from happening in December 2020. Alongside the Events Officer, Chloë Hayes, I appointed our talented seniors. The team then collectively decided on a theme and started getting creative with decoration and entertainment ideas, as well as booking the beautiful Lumley Castle as our venue. Unfortunately,

by September, it became clear that coronavirus would not have sufficiently eased for this event to take place, but we didn’t let this knock us back! Chloë and I made the decision to combine forces and create the new Hatfield’s Summer Solstice Ball, due to take place on 21 June 2021, combining Lumley Ball and Michaelmas Ball into one.

I must thank Elouise Brookes, Treasurer, and Caitlin Sturrock, Creative Officer, for all of their hard work towards the Lumley Ball that sadly didn’t happen. The rest of our team decided to stay on to help plan the Summer Ball and are still hard at work preparing for what will hopefully be a brilliant event!

By Christmastime, we made the decision to also combine with Lion in Winter Ball, adding Lucy Pallent and her team onto the Summer Ball Team. Planning an event with three Co-Chairs has been a learning curve, but has also given the team an enjoyable opportunity to explore a new way of event organisation. The theme of

the Ball is ‘Wonderland’, based on Alice in Wonderland. This theme has let our creative team flourish. The resilience of the team in these challenging times amazes me, and I am so grateful that we have had the opportunity to continue working on some form of event to bring Hatfield to life in the summer term. We can’t wait for you to see what we have planned and come together as a community once again in June!

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Music Society The 2020/21 academic year has been a challenging one for music-making, but the Hatfield Music Society has tried to remain active through all the restrictions.

Thanks go to Lily McNeill (Concert Manager), Amila Wijesinghe (Ensemble Coordinator) and Chessy Weiner (Treasurer). The first term’s Freshers’ Concert was held in November in the College Chapel with some impressive performances from our new Hatfielders.

Our Christmas Concert was held online due to restrictions, but we were treated to excellent performances of Schubert, Mozart and more. Whilst facilities have been more difficult to access, musicians

across College have kept on practising and we are looking forward to performing together in the final term. A Lunchtime Recital series is planned for June partnered with the Chapel Choir, and we are looking forward to more gigs in the bar and sunshine after exams.

Despite the challenges this year, there is clearly a diverse range of musical talent in Hatfield and we look forward to celebrating it more next year.

Miles MacLachlan President

Student International Team Working as Senior International Representatives alongside the International Team has been a rewarding and enriching experience this year. Since the beginning of term, we have strived to provide an inclusive, diverse and welcoming environment for all international students at Hatfield.

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College Officers to discuss plans for International Freshers’ Week. We wrote an International Handbook for incoming international students with new sections on advice from other international students, details on what to bring to College, important aspects of life in the UK, anti-racism resources and statements from other communities in Hatfield. The success of this handbook would not have been possible without the support from James and Minnie. Feedback from the international students is that the handbook is comprehensive and contains a wide

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We organised two weeks of virtual events for international students who had to quarantine in College, ranging from discussion sessions, question and answer sessions to movie nights and quizzes.

variety of resources and information which is proving useful during their time at Durham University.

We organised two weeks of virtual events for international students who had to quarantine in College, ranging from discussion sessions, question and answer sessions to movie nights and quizzes.

In addition to these virtual events, we organised a schedule of events during International Freshers’ Week, with activities such as walks around Durham, cookie decorating and International Tea and Toast. Pre-arrival, we also ran several virtual information sessions to answer any questions from the incoming freshers.

We delivered presentations on antiracism resources and micro-aggressions, with scenario-based training for all the Hatfield Freps this year. During the year, we also worked collaboratively with other communities on anti-racism resources.

Our Instagram takeover during the

summer featured international students from different corners of the world, which had a great engagement on the page. We worked collaboratively to host several inter-communities’ events throughout the year which were great, in addition to international welcome events and several talks about the university experience. Moreover, we held a panel discussion amongst all International Freps for incoming freshers which was very successful and a great forum to discuss experiences and advice from international students.

In addition to working collaboratively with communities in College, we also worked closely with Hatfield Welfare on the Imposter Syndrome campaign.

Overall, this year we organised several inter-communities’ events and campaigns, shared anti-racism resources, supported international students from the summer to Freshers’ Week and throughout the year using Q/A and campaigns on Instagram.

We are excited to see what the next Senior International Reps do and the work the International Team will continue to do to support international students.

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Circle of Pride This year was particularly challenging for Circle of Pride and Hatfield’s LGBTQ+ community. Our community is a place where people get to celebrate their differences and explore the vibrant queer culture, which historically and usually happens through in-person discussions, contacts and festivities in designated LGBTQ+ spaces.

However, we still managed to have an eventful year filled with fantastic online interactions and informative campaigns on the wonderful diversity within the LGBTQ+ community.

Starting with an extravagant Pride social in June to make up for the dearly missed and iconic parades in cities around the world, we then prepared to welcome Hatfield’s 2020 freshers by increasing our social media presence and editing, writing and sharing helpful information. As Michaelmas Term settled in we held socials for new members to engage and returning ones to reconnect with one another.

In light of the events of the previous summer with regard to racial injustice and the Black Lives Matters movement, we felt that it was necessary to celebrate black members of the LGBTQ+ community as they have always been at the forefront of the fight for Gay Liberation, against AIDS, and have also produced many central parts of today’s queer culture. Each week of October we showcased different important, yet lesser known, black LGBTQ+ figures to highlight the vast diversity of personalities involved, but also projects and work undertaken. We also held watch parties, provided further information resources and encouraged donations to

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charities such as the African Rainbow Family and the Intersex Justice Project.

We concluded a busy first term by participating in events with the Durham LGBTQ+ Association and other Colleges’ LGBTQ+ communities, and had our very own holiday special social.

Epiphany Term marked the real beginning of what is hopefully to become central to our College’s life: intersectionality.

While still maintaining our own projects, such as celebrating LGBT history month with a thorough campaign on AIDS, we also worked with Hatfield Feminists and conducted a discussion session on the dynamics and limitations of reclaiming homophobic and misogynistic slurs.

The success of this event and the efforts of the JCR Exec have led to increasing collaboration between Hatfield’s different communities. Over the past month we have been engaging and learning from each other, while at the same time planning future events to ensure that when life does go back to normal, each community will rise to the challenge.

We are looking forward to Easter Term and we are eager to bring out the energy and positivity that many of us have been missing over the past year. Throughout the year, despite only having a few freshers join us and our previous members separated across the globe, we still managed to make our presence heard and felt. This was something we always did with great pride.

Loïc Derrien and Emerson Muhmoud Senior LGBTQ Reps

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People of Colour Community The Hatfield POC Community has always played a vital and pivotal role in the Hatfield Community.

Nevertheless, the role of POC Rep is a fairly new position which was recently filled in 2020. Despite the struggles of Covid-19 making this year a year like no other, the POC Community has created a strong online presence through social media and events.

Through this academic year we have created freshers’ anti-racism training in collaboration with the Hatfield Internationals Community, targeting micro-aggressions in College and ways to educate ourselves and deal with them.

This was shown and discussed with the freshers in September 2020. Besides this, in November 2020, we collaborated with Durham People Of Colour Association and other Colleges on their 17 Letters, 4 Words; A Racism Free Durham Campaign working to make a safer place for minorities in Durham University.

Furthermore, on 17 March 2021, we held an online Communities Social with Hatfield Feminists, Hatfield Internationals and Hatfield Circle of Pride through Zoom with members of all communities participating in a night of games and quizzes. The POC community also collaborated with the Durham People of Colour Association and Mixed Students’ Society on 26 March 2021, in an online tribute and panel discussion about the recent anti-Asian racism crimes.

Here Aida Rosnan discussed the opinions and words from the POC community and

ways to help with other POC students in Durham University.

This year the POC community has succeeded in creating a stronger online presence from the ground up, as well as collaborating with other societies and communities in making a more supportive and educative environment. In June 2020, we worked on raising awareness and posting resources regarding the Black Lives Matter movement and ways in which we could all collectively support the Black community. Furthermore, in February 2021, we successfully collaborated with Hatfield Welfare in recording a podcast about Imposter Syndrome in the POC community.

We worked on posts, tips and signposting guides on reasons why Imposter Syndrome could occur in POC communities as well as easy to get support.

In addition to this, we worked with Hatfield Internationals on creating a statement about the current rise in anti-Asian hate crimes including further ways to educate oneself, and to help out as well as receive help. The POC community is involved on the newly established Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee. Here we have successfully collaborated with Hatfield Welfare to create a signposting guide for communities. Through the EDI Committee we also hope to work on creating compulsory anti-racism training for upcoming freshers and clearer actions against micro-aggression and racism in College.

In conclusion, the POC community has worked to create a stable foundation that future reps can build on, and raise awareness throughout College of the issues facing the community. We hope to see the community flourish in future years.

Aida Rosnan (Acting Senior POC Rep) Andrew Midenda (POC Rep)

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SHAPED This year SHAPED moved to become part of the JCR, and functioned entirely online, allowing global participation. The Senior Exec joined from across the world, with Emily Chen as Academic Rep, Velina Petkova as Development Rep, Florence Singer as Lions & Careers Rep, Alison Greenfield as Publicity Rep, and Asif Mashadi as Chair.

Operating SHAPED remotely did create some challenges, but largely facilitated more attendance from alumni. The Civil Service Fast Stream Talk as part of the Hatfield Virtual Careers Conversations was our most well-attended events, as three civil servants joined us from across England and South Africa to shine more light on Hatfielders’ potential careers in the Civil Service. SHAPED also hosted a ‘Break Into Tech’ Talk with alumnus, Alok Kumar.

Moving into Epiphany Term, SHAPED increased its attendance and engagement, especially with the series of CV Clinics

by Dr Richard Bain and Alexander Taylor of the SCR, which proved exceptionally popular with undergraduates. New events included ‘Pursuing Postgraduate Study’, where alumni, Quinn Higgins and James Petley answered a range of questions from students about the complex process of managing postgraduate applications.

SHAPED also expanded its digital side, moving the previous Squarespace website onto the College’s JCR site, with the help of the JCR Software Officer, Alex Paraskos.

The process was partially enabled by the creation of new named junior roles, with Manon Sintes as Editor, and Alexander Cooke as Marketing Rep, transferring 24 blogs from SHAPED’s previous website

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to the new one. SHAPED was also joined

by Rosie Beckwith-Smith as Content Contributor, Lucy Pallent as Treasurer, and Julius Balchin as Junior Academic Rep. Over the past year, SHAPED authored 13 new blogs on a range of topics, from understanding the STARR technique, to experiences as an international student at Hatfield, whilst updating SHAPED’s comprehensive Interview Bank.

Special thanks go to Grace Norman, Hatfield Development Officer, for allowing SHAPED to engage with alumni events, and also to the JCR Executive team for promoting events and to Software Officer, Alex Paraskos, who was instrumental in helping SHAPED transfer the website.

Lorna Cosgrave Programme Coordinator

Civil Service Fast Stream Virtual Careers Conversation in partnership with SHAPED & Flyer for the SHAPED Managing STEM exams workshop and for the SHAPED CV Clinics

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Voices Hatfield Voices joined the trend of Zoom socials and AGMs in Easter Term, electing our new Executive and reuniting from across the globe (from Canada to Germany!).

Connie Brown was elected as Secretary and Sally Deverell as Social Secretary.

Rosa Marks and Paul Dirk continue in their roles of Musical Director and Accompanist

respectively. Michaelmas and Epiphany Terms have been rather quiet terms for Voices due to Covid, and as a for fun singing group with no auditions, we felt that Zoom practices would not be suitable.

We greatly look forward to what the next academic year will bring and hope that we will be able to be back singing together soon!

Emma Williams President

Welfare In a year like no other, Hatfield’s Welfare Team have not failed in dedicating their time to helping others. Launched straight into a national lockdown after the election of Jess Clark as our new Welfare Officer, the Team’s priority was to ensure that Hatfielders still felt part of our community despite being at home.

After exams, our Livers Out Representatives hosted a successful liversout/abroad campaign. It was great to see old and new Hatfielders talking about their experiences and sharing tips for those about to live out/abroad for the first time.

We also released a Livers’ Out Handbook.

This resource informed those living in student housing how to navigate contracts, bills, deposits, and other daunting tasks associated with housing.

Hatfield At Home, a social media-based interactive campaign, was a massive hit during the Easter holidays. From a Great Hatfield Bake Off to self-care hampers posted home to Hatfielders, our Team took pride in bringing some sunshine to people during difficult times. Meanwhile, our drop-ins had to adapt to virtual support, which came with a host of challenges.

We struggled to create a non-clinical environment that virtual calls can often feel. Our ‘how are you doing today?’ interactive posts on Instagram stories were a great way to help Hatfielders check-in with themselves and make drop-ins feel more friendly, informal and casual.

Meanwhile unfortunately, College marriages also had to be online with certificates sent via email. Hopefully, next year students can get married officially in the College Chapel.

Another first this year has been the creation of a Student Signposting Handbook to make student support more accessible to Hatfielders, old and new. After dedicating her summer holiday to create the 70-page handbook, Jess distributed it to College Officers, freshers, JCR members and even beyond our gates to other Colleges.

Hopefully, the handbook will become a legacy that will shape the accessibility of student support in the future.

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Welfare Team welcome back team photo

Freshers’ Week was a blur as usual, but Hatfield Welfare’s very own James Reid and Minnie Parker did an outstanding job running a seamless induction despite government restrictions. Welfare was an integral part of supporting both freshers and freps during the week. We ran daily drop-in hours, extremely popular Tea and Toast takeaways and a Welfare wind-down afternoon. A new initiative for the year was introducing supply cupboards in each household, ensuring that freshers were all stocked up on Welfare’s infamous supplies!

Parenting night was hosted shortly after Freshers’ Week via Teams, and we hope to follow up the evening with an in-person event in the summer term.

Michaelmas Term was all about teamwork.

We were thrilled to appoint 11 new Junior Welfare Representatives who have been fantastic throughout the year despite not having the opportunity to meet in person. This year’s new role as a Supply Representative, filled by Rosie Nicholls, successfully promoted Welfare supplies and coordinated supply drops for livers88

Advertising the new podcast episode featuring the Welfare and Communities teams

in. Next year we hope to increase the outreach of the role, introduce new supplies and have more campaigns surrounding supplies.

During Michaelmas, we hosted our first ever inter-collegiate Take Time to Sign campaign, the 12 Days of Welfmas and another Hatfield At Home campaign, all being social media-based. The Livers’ Out Team ran an Eat Out to Help Out scheme for livers out craving College brunch. And we were thrilled to be able to run an online version of Tea and Toast, where students could study and meet other Hatfielders; it has been an enormous triumph thanks to our Tea and Toast President, Zach Nezianya.

We are also delighted to announce our first-ever collaboration with the Good Lad Initiative in light of Movember. As a College, we understand that we have some way to improve gender equality and men’s mental health and we felt that the Good Lad Initiative was the perfect charity to work with our male leaders within the

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College. The interactive workshop was praised by those that attended, and we hope to work with them in the future, especially with our Sports and Societies.

our individual and group achievements as a team. Our most extraordinary achievement has been helping to create such a welcoming community.

Despite the Welfare Team being at home for the Epiphany Term, our campaigns have never been better! Our Epiphany campaigns included Mental Health Awareness, Body Positivity, Work Smart and Imposter Syndrome. And this year, we took the initiative to work more closely with our wonderful Communities on these campaigns by collaborating on podcasts, signposting material and videos. Furthermore, Jess Clark (JCR Welfare Officer) and Rhiannon Melass (JCR Communities Officer) pioneered Welfare Liaisons, where a Nightline-trained Welfare Representative was voluntarily matched with a Senior Communities Representative.

In doing so we hope to strengthen the accessibility of support for both communities and the Senior Communities’ Representatives who may face disclosures.

Hatfield is in safe hands for the future, cared for by dedicated, passionate and warm individuals who have a desire to help their peers at the heart of everything they do. Therefore as your JCR Welfare Officer for the year 2020-21, I extend my tremendous thanks and best wishes to Shauna Townsend (Assistant Welfare Officer), Bonnie Bayliss, Ambika Padki and Aida Rosnan (Senior Welfare Representatives), Connie Brown and James Reid (Senior Campaigns Representatives), Lizzie Irwin, Lauren Hendrick, Keeva Newland and Emma Williams (Junior Campaigns Representatives), Taneisha Atkinson and Mia Connor (Junior Livers’ Out Representatives), Zach Nezianya (Tea and Toast President), Rosie Nicholls (Supply Representative), Sophie Appleby (Social Media and Marketing Representative), Liv Begley (Social Media and Marketing Representative for Campaigns) and Eliza Norman (Secretary).

Progression and improvement are something that Welfare are determined to achieve; therefore, Jess submitted a motion at the end of her term to create a Senior Men’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Representative. Having now passed an OGM vote, this Representative will host drop-ins, work with men’s mental health charities, help deliver engaging consent training and campaign for better mental health and wellbeing for all within the College. We are excited to see what the future holds for this role and the positive impacts it will assuredly have upon the Hatfield community.

All resources mentioned in this report can be found on the Hatfield JCR website (www.hatfieldjcr.co.uk) under ‘Welfare’ or our Instagram page @HatfieldWelfare.

Jess Clark (Hatfield Welfare Officer 2020-21, Assistant Welfare Officer 2019-20)

Undoubtedly, this year has been a challenge for students and student support. Yet, Hatfield Welfare saw Covid-19 as an opportunity to increase the accessibility of support for students and to help encourage more active conversations around mental health. And despite such an isolating year, we are incredibly proud of

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Notes from the Hatfield Development Officer and Honorary Director of the Hatfield Trust The Hatfield Trust motto is ‘Supporting Students All The Way’ and never has this been more necessary than during this last year. The Trust exists to provide students with opportunities to take part in developmental activities, to support College facilities, and to ensure Hatfield can stand strongly by its #AllOneHatfield ethos and remain as inclusive as possible by providing a range of scholarships, hardship funds and bursaries.

We are extremely grateful to our donors who have continued to support the Trust’s activities with generous regular donations, one-off donations and by leaving us gifts in their will. The positive impact of these donations on the Hatfield community cannot be understated. Not only have donations come from alumni and friends of College, but from the communities within our community – the Hatfield Alumni Association and the Senior Common Room. The generosity of both communities has allowed the Trust to channel funds to students and student activities which were struggling due to the effects of the pandemic, and helped to secure the future of our Hatfield Bursaries Scheme, which has supported 90 students to date as we finish its second year and anticipate uptake of the scheme will increase next academic year.

Despite the challenges that the pandemic has presented, cancelling student plans and halting career development opportunities such as internships, the Trust has adapted its offering and supported more than 200 students over the last year. Our undergraduate research internship scheme, launched in 2019, 90

moved online with students taking part in 6-8 week placements within their chosen department and funded by the Trust.

The support of our community extended from Virtual Careers Conversations to an alumna-hosted internship for Annabel Talco at The Flava People, kicking off the Collaborative Internship Programme.

Heading into the 2020-21 academic year, the focus of the Trust turned to supporting students, clubs and societies to adapt to the current climate, whether that be funding to ensure activities were Covid secure or funding student projects where income from part-time jobs was few and far between. We also saw the launch of two new scholarship schemes – the Robin T White 1956 Scholarship and the British Council Women in STEM Scholarship - providing support for undergraduate students from lower income backgrounds and female postgraduate students from South America respectively. We look forward to welcoming these scholars along with two Lioness scholars and three Schon music scholars in September 2021.

In the following pages, you will find a selection of reports from student recipients of Trust awards and internship funding from the last year. At the Trust, we are proud of the range of projects we are able to support and look forward to continuing this support with gusto as pandemicfuelled restrictions lift and activity returns to pre-covid levels.

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Trust Grants Awarded 2020-21 Each year, the Hatfield Trust supports scores of students with awards to take up a range of opportunities to help in their continuing development. In the last year, over £100,000 has been awarded to fund student projects in the areas of academia, sport, music, volunteering, drama and career development as well as enabling Hatfield to be an inclusive community by supporting students who encounter unexpected financial hardship as well as all those from lower income households.

What follows are some examples of student reports following Trust grants.

Anna Beaumont (Courtauld Summer School) Postgraduate Programme, Conservation of Archaeological and Museum objects As a conservator in training it is important to have a grasp of Art History. Getting an idea of artistic currents, trends, ideas, and techniques can help assess an object, determine its value and help narrow down its period of creation. Additionally, such knowledge would enable constructive discussions with museum curators, who usually have a more art history background.

The Courtauld Institute has intensive Art History summer classes that were put online this year where lectures, discussions, and artwork analysis are done with expert lecturers in their specific fields. Thanks to the funding from the Hatfield Trust and their forwarding my application to the Rotary Club of Durham for the Norman Richardson Award, I was able to attend two courses that were the most relevant to my specialism: Mosaics and Weimar Republic art (1920s-30s with multimedia art and the setting of trends for interior design in the next few decades).

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The first week was on the Weimar Republic. At the time where film, photography, and mass consumerist culture started to become prevalent, it felt like going back to the roots. Two sessions concentrated on the Bauhaus school of design which created everyday objects, such as tea sets, lamps, or chairs, whose aesthetics have remained popular to this day. It was interesting as it linked social and political movements with the production of art and everyday objects.

The second week was on Byzantine mosaics. The course covered how mosaics were made, planned, and designed, before delving into the in-depth study of them. For a conservator, learning about the importance of inscriptions, religious symbolism, and colour palates is crucial if a mosaic has to be restored. There were also discussions on changes made through time to the mosaics and the importance of these, as well as a discussion on the ethics of the reconversion of San Sophia (in Turkey) into a Mosque. I went to see the mosaics in Ravenna for myself after this course and was much more tuned-in to the details of manufacture and aesthetics.

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Wall mosaics in the Basillica di San Vitale Ravenna. Photo taken by Anna Beaumont.

The Courtauld summer classes were a unique opportunity for me to follow two areas of my interest: Middle Eastern material culture with the Mosaics course, and the complex and revolutionary interwar period. In addition to the great content of the lectures, seminars, and literature, it was eye-opening to listen to other people coming from

backgrounds outside of the conservation, or the museum world, and understand their approach when interpreting the significance of these objects and artworks.

A great lesson for future exhibition or outreach projects that are important elements of the job of a conservator.

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Amare, The Hague, where the composition Afrique, to which Tom Burgess’s research contributed will be performed next year

Tom Burgess (Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme) Undergraduate Programme, Music Over the past summer, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside Dr Richard Rijnvos (Professor of Composition) to help conduct research and complete transcriptions for his upcoming piece Afrique. This forms part of his larger project Grand Atlas, and will be premiered next year in The Hague’s new cultural

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complex Amare by their Residentie Orchestra and the percussion ensemble Slagwerk den Haag. Naturally, it was an honour to contribute in any way towards this significant piece by an internationally reputable composer, and proved thoroughly rewarding and exciting for the full eight-week duration. I cannot thank the Hatfield Trust enough for facilitating this by allowing me to find and embark on this highly specialised internship in accordance with my lecturer’s goals - indeed, he is exceedingly grateful too!

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Afrique comprises the latest work in Richard’s expansive compendium of works Grand Atlas. His project entails writing a piece for each continent that derives from its indigenous music, rotating clockwise through each region as the sections elide into one another. Following work in my undergraduate Ethnomusicology essays on the various ethical implications that musicians run into when drawing influence from external sources, my first objective was to deeply research Richard’s proposed areas of interest. I wanted to prioritise the veracity of my transcriptions before getting deep into transcribing field recordings, so that I could acquire a better understanding of the styles we were looking at. Similarly, I wanted to be aware of crucial, intrinsic elements to the musical styles that could easily be overlooked if I dived straight in - from core rhythmic ideas, to subtleties of instrumentation that produce distinct sounds.

A prime example of these is the Senegalese contemporary piece I first transcribed called Rose Rhythm, featuring 50 sabar drums that were divided idiomatically into sections, and embellished on rhythms that stem from t he Senegalese traditions. Such information could easily go amiss, so I’m glad that I could make the most of my position to conduct well-informed research, while also acting as a second opinion throughout. By emphasising the investigative part of the transcriptions, I also built on my African music knowledge, meaning that I could also better ascertain the richer, authentic folk musics from the vast amounts of Westernised music available online. I quickly discovered some ethical resources for field recordings, such as the sustainable Global Music Exchange. The piece in question I used was from a collection put together for the Eden Project’s rainforest biome near where I live (also founded by Hatfield alum, Sir Tim Smit KBE, which gave it a fitting cyclicity!).

In the second month of the internship, I transcribed the other four pieces: respectively from Egypt (for three doublereed instruments and frame drum), Cameroon (by a group of pygmy singers and drummers), Uganda (for a six-person “embaire” xylophone), and Botswana (for a group of flautists in four parts). These five pieces in total were selected after much deliberation with Richard during the first month, having researched the musical traits to many African styles and listened to hundreds (possibly thousands) of pieces. Their selection was informed by how various musical aspects could segue into one another while displaying sufficient contrast for an exciting and varied performance of approximately 30 minutes.

In summary, the internship has been seriously invaluable to my academic progress, setting me up for my MA Music on the Composition pathway by providing me with insight into the writing process.

Similarly, my rigorous research into African music puts me in good stead for my proposed Ethnomusicology essays this year, in addition to my intentions to publish similar academic articles later in life. I feel abundantly thankful that Hatfield has the facility to put in place such a funding programme for students looking to pursue academia further, where opportunities are rare to find. In particular, the scheme’s flexibility granted us with a greatly appreciated freedom, which allowed us to hone in on new possibilities that we stumbled upon. We could therefore reassess our priorities and how best to be time-efficient in a manner that perhaps would not have been accommodated in a more restrictive setting. Altogether, I sincerely hope the internship’s availability continues in the coming years, so that many more students can reap the benefits and make the most of what it has to offer!

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Felicity Challinor swimming as part of the English Channel Crossing team

Felicity Challinor (Hatfield Trust Grant) Postgraduate Programme, Global Politics With thanks to the support of the Hatfield Trust I was able to successfully lead a team of three Durham University swimmers across the English Channel. At 8.00pm on 14 September 2020 we set off from Dover, swimming through the night and landing on French soil 12 hours 50 minutes later.

Throughout the challenge I developed exceptional leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate my team to succeed. I enhanced my resilient and dedicated attitude, both through months of training and during the two-hour slots of constant swimming.

The Swim: The “Everest” of open water swims, swimming the Channel requires outstanding mental and physical toughness. When switching from pool swimming to open-water at the age of 10, I set my sights on a solo of the English Channel and completed two Channel 96

Relays at aged 14 and 15. Embarking on the challenge with two close friends and relishing the team-work aspect gave me a unique sense of pride. My teammates were fellow Durham swimmers, Katie Hodgson (University College) and Alice Venkatesan (Collingwood graduate).

We could not have predicted the disruption Covid-19 would have on our training. We adapted well, however, boosting fitness through home workouts and using the time to discuss the equally important aspect of training: mental preparation. We had 16 weeks from when lockdown restrictions were lifted until our allocated swim slot of 16-23 September. Averaging four to six hours of swimming per week, we became regulars at our local open-water swimming venues (heavily adapted to restrictions). In July we successfully completed our twohour qualifying swim in Dover Harbour.

As the team leader I had the additional responsibility of liaising with the Channel Swimming & Piloteering Federation, who organise the swim, providing the support boat and crew.

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As we sat cradling cups of tea after a morning swim at the Serpentine we got ‘the call’ telling us to get ready to swim to France 72 hours later. I felt a mix of panic, excitement and nerves but was inspired by the words of encouragement from friends and family. I was thrilled as our fundraising total for NHS charities rapidly rose to £2,694.

Personal Development Resilience - they say marathon swimming is 80% mental, 20% physical.

During months of training and on the day, I developed a mindset characterised by self-motivation, resilience and determination. This mindset has extended beyond my swimming, now imbedded into my student life.

We set off from Samphire Hoe, Dover at 8.30pm on Monday 14 September.

Swimming through the night provided an additional challenge: dark and very cold.

Swimming in a relay works in a rotation of two-hour slots until we reached the French coast. We were very lucky to have an amazing support crew (my father and Katie’s father) who stayed up through the night ensuring the safety of the swimmer in the water and providing encouragement.

Following our two-hour swim we had four hours to rest and re-fuel before getting back in the water. We cheered each other on, keeping everyone’s spirits high and set up a whiteboard to write messages from friends and family.

Team-work - swimming in a relay taught me how to trust my teammates and relish working towards a common goal.

I learnt the importance of supporting and celebrating each other.

I was lucky to be in the water during a beautiful sunrise and could feel the warmth of swimming during the day. Everything that was out of our control went in our favour, conditions were near perfect; the sea was very flat and only a few sightings of jellyfish. Due to Coronavirus restrictions only the swimmer in the water was allowed to land in France (usually the whole team can swim the last 200m). Katie landed on a beach near Cap Gris Ne at 9.20am giving us a very commendable time of 12 hours and 50 minutes.

I am extremely grateful to have received this award from Hatfield College and the financial support of the Trust. My four years at Hatfield has shaped me into a well-rounded student, understanding the importance of academic, professional and personal development. The support of the Trust has been instrumental.

Leadership - I learnt that leadership is about leading by example. I knew I had to show utmost commitment to training and maintain a positive attitude.

However, I learnt that leadership is also about being honest with my team. I was open with my teammates when I was having an off day during training or when my nerves where high. I learnt how to inspire and empower my team, helping them believe in their abilities.

Felicity Challinor and team after completing the English Channel Crossing

I am extremely proud of my teammates.

The mental and physical excellence they showed both during training and on the day was so inspiring and I was honoured to lead the team to France. We are now planning another relay swim, potentially Lake Annecy for next Summer.

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Hatfield Create’s first painting session

Hatfield Create Hatfield Trust Grant This year Hatfield Create was established in order to provide Hatfield with an art society. The aim of the group has been to create a safe space where people can take a break from studying to do some cathartic drawing, but over the year we have also encouraged more social events, such as ‘Pints and Paints’, which has been held fortnightly in the Little Burt room, inviting groups of friends and individuals alike to come, socialise and paint with watercolours. We have also worked with welfare to bring art therapy

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sessions, holding a very successful bauble decorating event at the end of Michaelmas Term 2020.

This has yielded several great outcomes; at our weekly meetings, people have been coming in for friendly chats, and we have got to know a set of weekly visitors, some of whom aren’t that confident socially and have found the group to be a great place to wind down and get to know new people, and others who just wanted to come and do some artwork. Our ‘Pints and Paints’ events have seen groups of people come to enjoy a unique evening out, and have proven even more successful than our normal weekly sessions. On top of this we

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were able to start off the last academic year with an art exhibition, showcasing all the fantastic pieces of art stashed away in the Art Room as well as art produced

by Hatfield Create itself. This was opened at an alumni dinner, providing not only students who came to see it throughout the duration of the exhibition with an insight into the talent of Hatfielders over the years, but also members of the wider Hatfield family with a great sense of comradery and nostalgia.

It is my firm belief that Hatfield Create has not just helped individuals get more in touch with their creative side – an experience previously not widely available at Hatfield – but, perhaps more importantly, it has given a safe space to people who are perhaps too nervous to jump into the more intense social activities that College has to offer. At Hatfield Create, it is just as acceptable to sit in silence and paint as it is to have a chat.

We have created a non-judgemental, comfortable space for those who, for whatever reason, choose to visit.

I have met people at Hatfield who I never would have encountered otherwise, and am proud to have been able to encourage creative self-expression, branding it as a part of our College community spirit.

A young woman submitted a fantastic piece to our exhibition depicting an environmental protest. Not only was it topical, but she had spent months painting each individual face on the piece. She said that had it not been for the exhibition, she would have probably just thrown it away. I think this is a perfect example of Hatfield Create encouraging people to be proud of their art and share it with other Hatfielders.

Hatfield Create Mini-Exhibition in the Birley Room

being able to make it all happen, which was fantastic. Without it, none of the work we have done this past year would have been possible.

Lottie Davies Co-President

Bradley Simms, bauble painting with Hatfield Create

With the £200 awarded to us from the Trust, we have been able to acquire supplies in order to start the Society. When we first started out and didn’t have people coming each week to pay the £2 per ticket for each session, this was key in actually

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Anubhuti Jain and Professor Jason Harding catching up via Zoom

Anubhuti Jain (Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme) Undergraduate Programme, English Literature In the midst of unfamiliar changes led by an unprecedented pandemic, I had the exciting opportunity to venture on a six-week remote internship at Durham University’s English Department. The internship began on 13 July 2020 and ended on 22 August 2020, during which time I assisted the international research scholar, Professor Jason Harding, on one of his major Oxford University Press (OUP) editorial projects. The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh is a large-scale project by OUP to publish the first ever

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comprehensive scholarly edition of Evelyn Waugh’s complete works, with an aim to provide an authoritative reference text for future Waugh studies. All editors associated with the project have access to a rich digitised database of Waugh archives that are otherwise privately held.

The whole project is planned to consist of 42 volumes, and each volume is planned to include its own unique Introductory and Appendix section, which will be produced by the Volume Editors, and therefore, cater to the specific editorial needs of the volume.

In his capacity as the Volume Editor for Waugh’s Scoop, Professor Harding was able to provide me with a high-resolution scan of the novel’s original autograph manuscript, along with a digital version

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of its first printed edition. My primary role whilst undertaking the internship has been to chart the ‘substantive variant readings’ between these two texts, which will serve as raw material for Appendix B. I interpreted and recorded the variants in a clear and concise manner following the editorial collation principles that have been specifically set out for this edition.

The work involved tracing all major and minor edits in the punctuation, grammar, word choice, syntax, scored out sections, and even later insertions and plot shifts, keeping in mind Waugh’s reputation for being able to create subtle shifts in tone with the use of a single punctuation mark placed in his idiosyncratic style. I went case by case, making independent decisions as to which variant might be considered ‘substantive’ by measuring the variant against its significance to the tone of the novel.

Adapting effectively to the remote situation, very early into the internship Professor Harding and I managed to figure out an efficient working style, and by the first few meetings I had been introduced to the theory and practice of scholarly conventions in editing and trained in using collation conventions. Professor Harding was very encouraging of me to make my own critical judgements, and to even deviate from the standard conventions in cases where I found them insufficient to accommodate the specificity of an unusual case. In our weekly meetings we went back and zoomed in on what I had done, and how the decisions I had taken were working or could be improved on. This feedback gradually helped me develop some sense of what a good editorial judgement looks like, piquing in me a deeper fascination towards literary criticism. Working on ground level gave me the opportunity to understand that all the meticulous collation methodology that goes into scholarly editing can actually lead to major research outcomes. I have developed a newfound appreciation

Editing work during Anubhuti Jain’s research internship in the English Department

for an editor’s role in providing sound judgement and criticism, solving unique editorial problems logically, and also for technical skills like proofreading that rely on the accuracy, clarity, consistency, and execution of the editor. Overall, this summer internship has presented me with the perfect conditions to nurture and explore my interests and taught me to use my time efficiently and in a disciplined manner.

I am very grateful to Hatfield College for being accommodating with the ongoing Covid-19 situation and letting graduating students apply for a paid summer project, and to the Hatfield Trust for granting me an award that has funded a personally and academically invaluable experience for me.

I also want to thank Professor Harding, who has personally supervised and mentored me throughout the internship period and provided me with an incisive view into the editing and publishing industries, as well as a meaningful handson experience in advanced editorial work.

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Declan Merrington (Digital Archive Internship) Undergraduate Programme, Education Studies with History My first week was a ‘discovery week’, which began with a meeting with Grace Norman, Jonathan Bush (Archivist, Ushaw Collections) and Michael Stansfield (College Archivist) over Teams. I was briefed on the current state of the College’s archive, what the internship would entail, and also asked what I wanted to get out of the internship myself. My first task was to read through the Digital Preservation Coalition’s guidelines for digital archiving. This was useful as an introductory text and highlighted legal and practical problems and challenges for archiving to keep in mind for the upcoming internship. The rest of the week consisted mostly of Teams calls, firstly with Sam Goring (Senior Man) in order to discuss where the JCR saved materials, and secondly with Janet Raine (Senior College Administrator) to discuss the same for the College. On Tuesday, I was tasked with creating organograms of the JCR, Staff and Friends and SCR. This was kept in mind when meeting with both Sam and Janet, with information being added to a draft plan to be checked later in the week.

Another overarching task was to explore what kind of documents were already archived and what things I think would be crucial to archive. Because of this I joined various Hatfield JCR Facebook groups and got in contact with people who I thought would be helpful to the internship. In Week Two’s all-team meeting, Michael gave me a document which listed what material we have in our archive and what to look for. Luckily thanks to the previous week I had already tracked down some of the items that were needed. I also spent a lot of time learning how to use Microsoft SharePoint in preparation for uploading saved documents on to a shared space.

On my first day back in Hatfield, I used the Finance Office as a place of work.

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This was helpful as it had every copy of the Hatfield Record to look through, of which I read and made notes of names and societies I thought were useful. I was also given a tour of the College records within Palace Green by Jonathan. This helped me better visualise the role of a full archivist and compare it to digital archival work.

Later I met with Sam in the JCR Room and found some material which was needed for Michael’s list. Finally, we looked through SD cards which were stored in cameras used by the JCR and saved material that was worth keeping. Following Week Two I would spend Tuesdays in College, accessing material and using it as a change of scenery to working from home. I also set up the template for the digital archives on SharePoint using the physical archive as a starting point. Throughout the rest of the internship I collected material by messaging groups such as Hatfield Welfare, Lion Theatre Company and the MCR, uploaded them to the SharePoint and sorted where they should be saved.

The second main part of the rest of the internship was approaching the celebration of 175 years of Hatfield. This began with looking at other exhibitions celebrating College life and drawing inspiration from them. It was decided that the best approach would be to fuse physical and digital together for the exhibition, and for it to be a photograph-centred event. I was then tasked with reaching out to alumni to request participation in the event through photographs and stories. I drafted an email template which was then looked over by Grace, improved, and sent to notable alumni I had sourced from the Hatfield Record.

It was decided that QR codes would be used in the exhibition as people are already used to scanning them for Track and Trace and they would help bridge the gap between physical and digital.

Finally, towards the end of the internship I started adding metadata to the files

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in the SharePoint so that they could be easily located and searched. Altogether I uploaded 8763 files to the archive, sorted them into appropriate folders and added metadata to a majority of the files that were not photos, gave suggestions for the exhibition, contacted alumni and finished the internship giving a presentation summarising what I have done, the skills I have gained and improved, and the recommendations I would give for digital archiving in the future.

The internship has benefitted me immensely in terms of improving my personal and academic development.

Academically, it has allowed me to learn more about the history of the College, which first piqued my interest during my dissertation when I wrote about WEA summer schools which took place in Hatfield. It has also allowed me to have a better appreciation for the work of physical and digital archiving. Finally, it allowed me to use skills and interests I haven’t been able to develop for years, such as IT and web skills, in a practical and useful way.

Personally, it has allowed me to experience a unique and exciting digital workplace, and to prepare my CV for employment after university.

My contribution to College during the internship is tangible in terms of the amount of files I have uploaded and the folder structure. As well as this, I have prompted the JCR to start thinking more about how they preserve files for the future which will help with digital archival in years to come. Finally, I was told I brought a can-do attitude to the role and helped make the role of setting up the temporary SharePoint portal interesting and useful in my updates and recommendations.

Inside the Houses of Parliament.

Photo taken by Declan Merrington

Declan Merrington (Hatfield Trust Grant) Undergraduate Programme, Education Studies with History The Hatfield Trust funding allowed me to travel down to London to attend the Bright Network UK Parliament Insight Day. The day started with an introduction, followed by talks by the Clerk of the House of Commons and Clerk of the House of Lords. There were then talks from current employees who benefitted from the Civil Service Fast Track, including questions and answers, which gave tips on answering the Fast Track interview questions. Then there was an hour of refreshments and networking – from which I managed to add a lot of people on LinkedIn! Finally, there was a talk from James Uffindell, the CEO of Bright Network, which focussed on enabling first-generation students’ potential in the world of work after

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I got the chance to meet up with so many inspiring people that really helped me realise that I shouldn’t limit myself to only wanting to work in the North East for the rest of my life.

university. To end the day, we were given a tour of Parliament, which was incredibly exciting for me as someone who had never been there before.

I would not have been able to attend the event had I not been given the award for travel – my budget simply wouldn’t have allowed it. The Trust’s award, then, can be attributed as the reason for allowing me to learn what I did learn at that event. In terms of personal development, this event made me realise that I actually would not like to work in the civil service straight after university, but would quite like to work in a location like London which is always busy and has many opportunities.

It made me realise that I simply lack the amount of impartiality needed within the civil service. Nevertheless, I learned a lot about networking as this was the first networking opportunity I had been to outside of university. I got the chance to meet up with so many inspiring people that really helped me realise that I shouldn’t limit myself to only wanting to

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work in the North East for the rest of my life. Secondly, it did help me gain an insight into an average working day in Parliament and equipped me with the skills needed to complete the Civil Service Fast Track.

I achieved a lot as a direct result of being able to attend the event due to the Trust’s funding. Firstly, I achieved multiple connections thanks to the networking – one of which actually led directly to a temporary job for a political party during the 2019 election. Secondly, being able to navigate through London, a city I was not too familiar with before, was a great achievement for myself as someone who had rarely left the North East until recently.

Finally, I was able to attempt and complete the Fast Track interview process equipped with the knowledge from the Q&A session of the event. I even managed to pass the initial stage before fully realising that the civil service wasn’t for me.

Overall, the funding from the Trust helped me immensely as it allowed me to attend an event, which gave me an insight into employment after university, allowed me to realise and re-evaluate what I believed I wanted to do after university, and gave me a great opportunity to network and mingle with people outside of my usual university bubble. I am extremely thankful to the Trust for allowing me the opportunity, and it makes me proud to be a Hatfielder knowing that these opportunities are supported by the College.

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Charlotte Miccolis Gurney (Hatfield Trust Grant) Undergraduate Programme, Economics I would like to thank the Hatfield Trust for enabling me to secure £300 of funding from the Rotary Club of Durham Norman Richardson Award to go towards £1000 of tuition fees for the SOAS “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals” Summer School. The Summer School was originally set to take place over three weeks of faceto-face teaching in London. However, due to Covid restrictions the summer school was moved online. It consisted of two weeks of lectures, followed by one week in which you were expected to complete an extended piece of writing. The programme looked at what practical policies could be implemented in developing economies in order to maximise their chances of achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030. It provided me with the opportunity to approach the issues of international development from a completely different angle to that of my degree and engage in discussions with fellow pupils and lecturers. The experience has given me the confidence to pursue a career in international development and contributed to research for my dissertation.

The aim of the Summer School was to familiarise pupils with the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 ambitious targets to be met by 2030, designed to promote equity of opportunity for all people across the globe in this generation and in those to come. It discussed practical ways and sectors of the economy that should be developed in order to achieve the goals. Specific topics discussed included climate change policy, financial inclusion, water policies, private-public partnerships, employment, tourism and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. We were also required to apply the discussion to achieving a particular SDG in a country of our choice, for which I looked at poverty reduction in Argentina. The overall

I have found the Summer School incredibly enriching.

consensus was that there will always be trade-offs in achieving such a diverse set of goals but good policy should be geared at identifying ways in which trade-offs can be minimised and synergies maximised.

The Summer School day started at 10.00am with a lecture that would introduce the subjects of the day. This would then be followed by a chance to read the recommended literature. After lunch, we would have another lecture, followed by a tutorial to discuss the aforementioned readings. After the live tutorial came to an end, an online forum remained open for discussion, which lasted into the evening. Each pupil got the opportunity to apply the discussion to their chosen country and SDG and receive feedback and questions from fellow pupils and lecturers. The day ended with a concluding lecture.

I have found the Summer School incredibly enriching. The small size of the course (only eight pupils), enabled brilliant conversations and discussions with pupils from around the world, from a variety of academic and working backgrounds, as well as with lecturers (both via daily tutorials and through the forum).

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My career aspiration is to work in international development. The course gave me the opportunity to depart from the theoretical arguments in economic development, and instead explore its practical applications. Being able to explore the subject from a different angle has been invaluable. It has made me a better economist and given me the confidence and enthusiasm to pursue a career in this area. In addition, it has both inspired and informed the topic of my dissertation: An investigation into the relationship between Aid disbursements and the achievement of SDG’s.

I thank the Trust for its support and for making the experience possible. Without it, I would have not been able to attend the Summer School. I had originally intended to fund the Summer School with money from my regular summer catering job, however, with all hospitality closed over the lockdown period I was unexpectedly left without a summer job. Without the support of the Trust, I would not have been able to gather the funds.

James Peduzzi in action on the second day

James Peduzzi (Hatfield Trust Grant) Undergraduate Programme, Modern Languages and Culture with Year Abroad I completed a week-long sculling course at the Tideway Scullers’ School in Chiswick on the Thames this summer. I attended morning and afternoon sessions each day. This structure allowed an intense

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improvement in my sculling, starting from complete beginner to even doing a time trial on the last day. The conditions were good throughout the week; we were blessed with (mainly) good weather, except on the Friday when it was too windy to go out onto the river, and moreover I was fortunate in the fact that Hammersmith Bridge was closed to traffic on it as well as underneath it, so our section of the river next to Chiswick Bridge was a lot quieter than it normally

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is, resulting in a lot less disturbance of the water. Therefore, the conditions were similar to those which I can expect on the River Wear (except it may be colder in Durham during the winter…).

I was in Group 1 – complete beginner – and found that I progressed very quickly, thanks to my coach and previous knowledge of sweep rowing. The first three days consisted of technically learning how to scull, and on the fourth day we did a time trial so that the coaches could organise races for the last day.

Unfortunately, the weather was not good enough for us to race, so we did socially distanced ergs instead. I felt comfortable and safe the whole week, thanks to their

I picked up tips and techniques from my coach and also gained a more physical familiarity with rowing boats.

I would be able to coach the first years to a higher level than if I had not attended the course. As a novice rower only last year, it is essential that I know how to train the new Hatfield cohort properly. I picked up tips and techniques from my coach and also gained a more physical familiarity with rowing boats, for example how they handle and how they balance, as well as learning more in detail about tides, wind, currents and the rules of rowing on rivers. This knowledge will be invaluable as a Novice Coach.

I believe that I gained a lot more than just technical knowledge. As well as learning how to scull by myself, I also met likeminded rowers, who I got on well with. I am now more familiar with a Club that is local to me and how it works efficiently and productively. The experience was also very rewarding as a week of activity and sport, far from the worries and inactivity of the previous four months in lockdown, and it was very satisfying on a personal level seeing my progression from a beginner to a capable sculler. It is a skill I would like to build upon in the future, both for myself and my trainees’ benefit. I would like to express my gratitude to the Hatfield Trust for funding this opportunity.

The results of the time trial with James in joint 9th – a great effort considering a lot of rowers were not beginners

Coronavirus precautions: social distancing, washing blades and closed changing rooms. I felt myself progress so much over the week, but I realised there is a lot more to do, so I would love to return to the Scullers’ School at some point in the future.

Thanks to the Hatfield Trust, I was able to go on this course. The motivation behind it was always to gain a better understanding of the technicalities of rowing, so that as a Novice Coach with the Boat Club,

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Annabel Talco (Flava of the Future Summer Internship) Undergraduate Programme, Education Studies and English Studies My nine weeks with The Flava People involved contributing to – and learning from – several departments within the company, including New Product Development (NPD), Procurement, Sales and Marketing. Tasks varied from creating flavour databases and procuring ingredients, to managing social media accounts and completing market research in my local supermarkets. The role was entirely remote and involved weekly checkin sessions.

My work included streamlining and categorising the dated NPD recipe list, ultimately contributing towards the creation of the new SAP database. I completed SWOT analyses for the Sales team, evaluating industry competitors and identifying new opportunities. Similarly, I audited supermarket shelves to provide data for a category analysis (e.g. cooking sauces). I sourced several ingredients for the Procurement team every week – raw ingredients, at first, and then

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packaging options in my last fortnight.

An ongoing project was the creation of team-member bios for the new website, and other contributions to Marketing included copywriting work for product labels. I also managed the Flava-it social media accounts, responding to messages, comments and tags on Instagram and Facebook.

Despite the remote conditions, this internship was a formative ‘real world’ working experience in which I learnt both about the industry and myself. Indeed, the pandemic only ultimately served to deepen my development, in that it proved within myself a tenacity and an ability to work independently. This proactivity and strong work-ethic was balanced alongside my everyday work within departmental teams – an experience I hadn’t yet had before in this context. I loved building working relationships with members of the company, and hearing about their career paths and roles. Likewise, I have new-found confidence in my abilities as a problem-solver, and as someone who works to reach a conclusion myself before asking for support. This was combined with asking questions – and learning all that I could – at every moment, however, particularly about the industry and its complexities. Working on several tasks simultaneously strengthened my time management skills, whilst the internship’s hands-on nature honed my communication skills, both with clients and manufacturers.

Perhaps the greatest learnings came from my conversations with Ali (Alison O’Brien, alumna and Commercial Director, The Flava People), who provided me with more guidance than I ever could have hoped for. Her words will definitely stay with me throughout my working life, and the partnership was a testament to the Hatfield spirit and the lasting connections it fosters.

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Charlotte Way in the Library completing the News Associates Summer School

Charlotte Way (Hatfield Trust Grant) Undergraduate Programme, Liberal Arts (English, Spanish, and Italian) The Coronavirus pandemic plunged us all into a strange new world: one in which vacation schemes became virtual, and holiday plans were quashed by the dreary prospect of quarantine. Just as I was accepting my fate of a summer to remember for all the wrong reasons, the Hatfield Trust flew to the rescue, and, with the help of its generous funding, I found myself set to embark upon a two-week course at News Associates: the UK’s Number One NCTJ Journalism School.

Lockdown with a family of six had become somewhat stifling, and so a train ride to the tropics of Twickenham each day

provided a welcome escape. In the office, I was inspired by a room of creative and brilliantly inquisitive minds; course participants ranged from ambitious sixth formers to budding student journalists to fully fledged engineers seeking a radical career change, and there was even a fellow Hatfielder thrown into the mix!

Saturated with sanitiser, and distanced at desks, our imaginations strained to picture the usual hustle and bustle of a newsroom, but the staff at News Associates were adamant Covid would not cause our adrenaline to suffer; time-pressured newswriting exercises and sudden twists to stories kept us on our toes, giving us a glimpse into the fast-paced working environment which draws me so strongly to journalism as a career.

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My two weeks at News Associates were far from constrained to traditional written journalism, and the course organisers were keen to throw us into the deep end with a day focused on broadcasting. For those interested, reading from an autocue is rather more difficult than it looks; there is most definitely an art to it, and one which I am still yet to perfect. Fantastically future-facing, the course also provided my first insight into mobile journalism, and practical experience deciding upon cut-away shots, framing, lighting, angles, and camera movements gave me the tools needed to experiment with interviews in the future.

For somebody intrigued by the intricacies of media law, an afternoon on media ethics and the IPSO Code of Practice proved particularly fascinating.

A session on data journalism emphasised the importance of scepticism when it comes to interrogating figures, and the speaker raised a few eyebrows with his showcase of “sexy” infographics. Sexy was certainly a stretch, yet an hour of interactive bar charts later, I found myself eager to demonstrate facts and trends using striking tools in the future. For somebody intrigued by the intricacies of media law, an afternoon on media ethics and the IPSO Code of Practice proved particularly fascinating. I could not help but find, however, the fact that the session was led by somebody previously arrested in relation to the News International phone hacking scandal to be somewhat ironic.

My fortnight at News Associates equipped me with skills necessary for my aptitude for journalistic writing to progress, and I was especially appreciative of sessions which encouraged me to contemplate avenues of the media that I had not before considered; the concept of podcasts may be far from my comfort zone, yet I now understand the way in which they can be used to engage an audience on an alternative platform, and I am not one to shy away from a challenge.

It would not have been a Covid-19 summer course without an afternoon interviewing local businesses on the UK Government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme. Armed with notepad and recording device, we put our newfound shorthand skills to the test as we approached Twickenham’s finest family-run establishments for an insight into Covid’s impact on their trade. Emotive soundbites secured, the group then put its heads together to produce a collaborative piece for The South West Londoner.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude towards the Hatfield Trust, without whose generosity and encouragement my August at News Associates would not have been possible.

The abrupt end to my Undergraduate degree at Durham was just too heartrending to accept, and so I have returned to my home at Hatfield again this year, excited to launch myself into the student journalistic scene once more, alongside my MA in Politics and International Relations.

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you will ensure that Hatfield can provide the opportunities and experiences that our students need in order to make a meaningful difference in the world long after they graduate; to help our students to be the best they can be, as we Hatfielders say.

Hatfield College was founded in 1846.

Since then, thousands of students have become lifelong Hatfielders, remaining a member of our unique College community.

The 1846 Club provides a way for Hatfielders to continue to support College life through regular giving to the Hatfield Trust. By pledging to donate £18.46 annually, quarterly, or monthly,

There are four levels of membership available: Member, Partner, Guardian, and Patron. Each level comes with different benefits to donors in recognition of their generous support. Simply choose which level of support you would like to pledge to the Trust to become a member of the Club and make a difference to the lives of current and future generations of Hatfield students.

You can read more about 1846 Club levels and benefits, and sign up to the Club through the Club webpage: dunelm.org. uk/hatfield-College/donations/1846-club.

Hatfield Merchandise

Our range of Hatfield branded merchandise and memorabilia is available to purchase via the University website including Hatti the Hatfield Lion toy, ties, mugs, cufflinks and earrings. Visit the Durham University online shop at shop.dur.ac.uk to browse the full Hatfield Collection.

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The Hatfield College Map Hatfield College Map, by Hatfield Librarian Kevin Sheehan

The Hatfield College Map shows a birdseye view of the main Hatfield buildings on the Bailey, the nearby Durham University estate, a list of the College’s Principals and Masters, and a cartouche explaining a brief history of the College. The original Hatfield College Map was hand-drawn on vellum in 2017 by our College Librarian, Kevin Sheehan, as a retirement gift for the outgoing Master, Professor Tim Burt.

Hatfield and Manuscript Maps are pleased to offer signed prints, which help support the College Trust. The cost of a print is £30.00, with £12.00 from every sale going to the Hatfield Trust.

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• First edition print run of 200, signed by the artist, dated, and numbered.

• Printed on high-quality, 250gsm light cream paper with an antique ‘laid’ texture.

• Print measures 297mm x 400mm.

• 14” x 18” mounts (black or blue) can be added for £5, so it’s ready to frame.

• International shipping available.

For more information, or to order, visit ManuscriptMaps.com

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Hatfield Association The Hatfield Association is a community for all alumni and friends of Hatfield College, Durham University.

The importance of a sense of belonging is at the heart of the famous Hatfield spirit.

Once a Hatfielder, always a Hatfielder.

Our alumni are an important part of the College community and, through the work of the Hatfield Association and the Hatfield Trust, they continue to make an active contribution to College life.

Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis since 1846

Year on year our graduates go out in the wider world enriched by the Hatfield spirit to join the network of Hatfield alumni.

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About the Hatfield Association Hatfield Association was established in 1946, at a time when the future of Hatfield College, Durham University was uncertain - this was the first time that Hatfielders came together and probably the finest proof of the legendary Hatfield spirit.

Our aim Our aim is to ensure we have a strong, active and engaged network of Hatfield alumni (graduates), to facilitate and build strong relationships with the College and to support its educational and welfare aims.

join the Hatfield Association by signing up and paying the lifetime subscription fee. If you did not join and pay your subscription whilst you were studying at Hatfield but wish to join now we would be delighted to hear from you. Contact us via: hatfield.development@durham.ac.uk If you are a member and would like to read previous electronic versions of our annual publication, the Hatfield Record, and to receive updates about our work and invitations to events, then please register for access to Hatfield Association’s own website: hatfield-association.co.uk Getting in Touch

To this end the Hatfield Association plays an active role in:

If you would like to find out more, or if you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. Read more at: durham.ac.uk/ hatfield.College/alumni/associations

• organising annual reunions;

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• helping to connect members through regular updates and publications;

Once you have completed your university studies in Durham be sure to stay in contact with Hatfield after you have moved on from College by attending our reunions, keeping in touch with us or by visiting us in Durham again.

• offering career advice for students through a partnership with SHAPED; • supporting the outreach programme for schools; and • playing an active role in all three common rooms supporting College development.

You can also connect with us across our social media channels: @HatfieldAlumni

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President’s Reflections Those of you who read the Record each year will have seen from the other articles in this year’s edition the effect that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on different parts of our College community.

This has been a year unlike any year before and I am sure that it has had a profound impact on many Hatfielders including current students, College staff and the wider university community, alumni, friends and our families. I can clearly remember attending the last Formal meal of Epiphany Term in College on Friday 13 March 2020 (gowns; the enthusiastic spooning followed by silence as the High Table entered the dining hall; hearing our College grace; the good company and good food that followed – which many generations of Hatfielders will recognise) and one topic of conversation that evening was what the future might hold. I don’t think at that point that anyone fully realised that we were attending what would be the last

I don’t think at that point that anyone fully realised that we were attending what would be the last Formal meal where members of the JCR, MCR, SCR and friends would be able to come together in Hatfield for well over a year.

Formal meal where members of the JCR, MCR, SCR and friends would be able to come together in Hatfield for well over a year.

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Lecturn in Hatfield Chapel, donated by the Hatfield Association in its first year of existence

Quite simply, following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 23 March 2020 that ushered in the first national lockdown the usual rhythm of events and activities that would normally take place was frozen as everything was suspended as we were all encouraged to stay at home. Whilst it was clearly essential that we all complied with the law it did mean that 2020-21 calendars were radically impacted, including the postponement of all the events that the Hatfield Association had planned.

The weekend that I am writing this article for the Record has also been another time for reflection as yesterday the funeral service of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh took place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Prince Philip made many contributions to our national life over many years, not least as the longest-serving consort, patron and supporter of many charities and good causes, creator and lifelong advocate of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme as well as his service in the armed forces including during the Second World War. He has been remembered as a 116

member of that wartime generation who following the end of hostilities in 1945 went on rebuild, develop and improve the fabric of our national life.

Hatfield Association Exec and Senior Man Sam Goring in virtual mode

Great Escape Indeed many Hatfielders who had themselves served during the Second World War also went on to rebuild, develop and improve the fabric of our national life – including those Hatfielders who gathered together in Durham in 1946 to not only celebrate the centenary of Hatfield College but also on 28 August 1946 to form the

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Hatfield Association dedicated to ‘the welfare and preservation of the College’ as part of their campaign to fight against the threat of merger with Castle and to ensure that future generations would have the same opportunity to be part of Hatfield.

We are fortunate that their campaign was successful and the university authorities did indeed re-establish Hatfield and Castle as separate Colleges (Hatfield’s ‘Great Escape’) that allowed both Colleges to successfully develop in the years since as significant components within the Durham collegiate community.

Within a year of its formation the Association had also given the College chapel a permanent memorial of Hatfield’s 1946 centenary celebrations - a fine oak lectern - that stands there to this day (read the carved inscription next time you are in the chapel).

So, the forthcoming 2021-22 academic year will therefore mark both the 175th anniversary of the establishment of Hatfield College in 1846 as well as the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Hatfield Association in 1946.

Hatfield Great Escape Reunion Weekend with Lion in Autumn Ball There are many things being planned to mark 175/75, but one date at the end of the anniversary year that you may like to put into your diary now is the concluding event of Hatfield’s 175th Anniversary celebrations: Friday 16 – Sunday 18 September 2022, the Hatfield Great Escape Reunion Weekend with Lion in Autumn Ball: • This will mark 75 years of the Hatfield Association, formed in 1946 to fight for the restoration to Hatfield of its own buildings, its own Master and freedom from the threat of merger with Castle • Celebrate and give thanks for the flourishing of Hatfield over the succeeding 75 years, as a vibrant, eclectic, inclusive community; and • Offer an opportunity for Hatfielders of all generations who have been enriched by the Hatfield spirit to recognise their good fortune and help support the College to offer opportunities for the next generation of young people, including those of limited means in keeping with the 1846 aims of David Melville.

We have set up a 175/75 working group that reports to the Association Executive Committee to develop plans for the event and we look forward to continuing to working collaboratively with College during the months ahead. More details about the weekend will be shared nearer the time. In the meantime please do mention the dates to your friends and Hatfield contemporaries as we look forward to welcoming as many different groups of Hatfielders as we can to share memories across each part of Hatfield’s communities and celebrate the history of the College as well as the enduring strength of our Hatfield spirit. Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis.

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Events, AGM and alumni engagement As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions in place we had to postpone the planned reunion weekend in College in September 2020. We also took the decision to defer our AGM too, as due to the pandemic our normal programme of events had been suspended. There remains some uncertainty over how the rest of 2021 will unfold including our tentative plans for a reunion weekend in College in September 2021. The Association’s committee is thus focussing our efforts on the 2022 reunion weekend plans.

Whilst the Association was not able to run physical events during the last year, we did remain active. Many thanks to Hatfield alumni who offered their time to meet with current students as part of the College’s Virtual Careers Conversation events that were held via Zoom. I know from my own participation in these events that they offer a great opportunity for students to learn more about particular career paths and fields of work after leaving Durham, and that the insight and guidance from alumni is well received. If you would like to help 118

with future careers events or you have any other ideas that could help support current students entering the job market after graduation then please do contact Grace Norman, Hatfield Development Officer, at hatfield.enrichsupport@durham.ac.uk Keeping with the Zoom theme, a number of alumni also joined the virtual Hatfield Floreat celebrations on 24 July 2020 as well as the Hatfield Scholars’ Virtual Awards Ceremony on 2 December 2020.

The increased use of technology across the last year also allowed alumni to participate in other events including the Service of Remembrance on Hatfield Chapel green on 11 November 2020 led by Canon Michael Everitt and Hatfield Chapel Choir with readings by the Master and representatives of each of the common rooms.

Many of you will remember joining the Hatfield Association in your first Michaelmas Term as an undergraduate fresher at Hatfield College. Or maybe you don’t consciously remember, as in those days you were automatically enrolled

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Order of Service from Remembrance Day 2020 when the service was held outside around Chapel Green under Covid restrictions

To help with this during summer 2020 a small working group from the Hatfield Association committee created a short film (again using Zoom) to help explain the benefits of being a member of the Association. We promoted this at the start of Michaelmas Term and I would like to thank the JCR and the College for their assistance in signposting incoming students to our website (hatfield-association.co.uk/about-us/ once-a-hatfielder/) and YouTube page.

You can read more about the film ‘Once a Hatfielder, Always a Hatfielder’ on page 122 and watch the film to find out about the source of the hashtag #askabouttheelephant.

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and the small lifetime membership fee was added to your accounts alongside university accommodation costs, JCR and other fees. The University changed its approach three years ago and since then College alumni associations (as well as JCR’s) have had to request each new student to consciously opt-in to pay such fees. Whilst the Hatfield Association fee remains a very reasonable £25 one-off fee for life membership, the change in the process mandated by the University has resulted in a significant decline in income of the Association. The University’s requirement to opt-in does mean that we have to constantly work to raise awareness of the Association before and during Freshers’ Week.

We were sorry to learn of the passing of Bill Heal, who contributed to the life of Hatfield College and the Association over many years, including the period 2004-09 when Bill served as Hatfield Association President. Bill was also a member of the Senior Common Room and his stalwart support of all things Hatfield was recognised when he was invited to become a Fellow of Hatfield College in 2001. A full tribute to Bill is given on page 128.

With thanks Before I end this year’s report I would like to take this opportunity to thank my predecessor, Patrick Salaun who ended his term of office as President in June 2020 after five years’ service. I would normally have had the opportunity to publicly thank Patrick for all that he has done at the 2020 reunion weekend, but as noted above that event was postponed due to Covid-19. Patrick has made an invaluable contribution to the College and the Association (as well as the wider university) over many years and we remain appreciative of his ongoing support, enthusiasm and wisdom.

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As many of you will know Patrick is also a previous recipient of the Dunelmensis Award given by the University’s Senate to a Durham alumnus or alumna for meritorious and exceptional service in support of the University, particularly for our institutional advancement and for enhancing the University’s reputation, nationally and internationally.

I was delighted that another Hatfielder, Dr Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter, who was our guest speaker at the reunion weekend in 2019, was announced by the University as a 2021 recipient of the Dunelmensis Award.

Many congratulations to Carl. You can read more about the Carl’s Dunelmensis Award success on page 125.

I would like to thank each member of the Hatfield Association Executive Committee and our 175/75 Working Group members for their enthusiasm, proactive contributions and good humour at our meetings across the year. Like many organisations we moved swiftly to being a digitally adept group fully embracing the joys of Zoom (as you can see from the accompanying photo of some committee members during one of our Zoom calls) and we have remained in regular virtual contact.

Finally, I would also like to thank the Master, Professor Ann MacLarnon, and College Officers and staff for their dedication to support Hatfield students during what has been a very challenging and unexpected year as the pandemic unfolded. We appreciate everything that you have done to support the wider student experience during this difficult period, and despite the social distancing measures helping to keep us #AllOneHatfield.

Andrew Jackson President, Hatfield Association

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Hatfield Association Executive Committee President Andrew Jackson Honorary Secretary Tony Gray Treasurer Stuart Wild Membership Secretary & Webmaster Stephen Galway College Forum Representative Tony Gray Hatfield Record Officer David Imrie Co-opted Members David Arkless Nicola Candlish Cynthia Connolly Samantha Dowling Charlotte Furneaux David Imrie Adam Kirk Julia Raszewska Stephanie Wood Ex Officio Members The Master JCR Senior Man MCR President Hatfield Development Officer and Honorary Director of the Hatfield Trust

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The White Lion Club The White Lion Club is an Alumni Network for graduates of Hatfield College Boat Club established in 2019. The White Lion Club is a Chapter of the Hatfield Association.

The objectives of the Club are to:

A termly newsletter has been shared with members since Summer 2019 with updates on the Club, archive sections and members’ submissions.

To be added to the mailing list please email thewhitelionclub@gmail.com

• Maintain links between alumni and current students of Hatfield College who were or are involved in rowing • Provide an opportunity for past members of HCBC to row together and to meet socially.

Hatfield Novice Four coxed by Tony Gray in the 1968 Epiphany Term Bumps

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HA Video Working Group

Once a Hatfielder, Always a Hatfielder The Hatfield Association launched a video campaign in August 2020 to explore the myriad ways in which the Association enriches the lives of Hatfielders and celebrates the sense of belonging that comes from membership.

As it became clear the pandemic would preclude in-person representation at Fresher events at the start of Michaelmas Term, a sub-committee of the Association began working remotely on a video project that shared the key values of our organisation. This was a new way of working for the committee and the final video was produced via Zoom. Testament to the success of the video was the high

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sign-up rate following its release and supporting social media campaign.

Taking its name from our unofficial motto, ‘Once a Hatfielder, Always a Hatfielder’ introduces new members to a cross section of the alumni network. The support provided by the Association, career advice, social opportunities and more is discussed

by Hatfield alumni Nicola Candlish, Geoff Cullington, Hannah Finney, Adam Kirk and Stephanie Wood in the short film.

If you haven’t already seen the video – check it out on our social media or on the Association website hatfield-association.co.uk/about-us /once-a-hatfielder

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Rectory Building in the silence of Covid summer 2020

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HUNTER, Carl Stephen Patrick OBE (1981-1984)

Carl Hunter with the Vice Chancellor Stuart Corbridge

Congratulations to Carl who was a winner of this year’s Dunelmensis Award.

The Dunelmensis Award is given by the University’s Senate to a Durham alumnus or alumna for meritorious and exceptional service in support of the University, particularly for our institutional advancement and for enhancing the University’s reputation, nationally and internationally.

Dr Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter has given enormous support to our Physics Department and was confirmed as Professor-in-Practice at Durham Business School lecturing from January 2019 on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supporting the Business School in building capability with respect to data and decision sciences.

Over a sustained period, Carl’s efforts have underpinned and supported Durham University’s strategic aims in terms of research excellence, education and enhancing the University’s reputation

Carl has given time and support over many years to create his company’s unique Undergraduate Internship Programme.

nationally and internationally. Carl has given time and support over many years to create his company’s unique Undergraduate Internship Programme, which he attributes to the extraordinary Professors and Academic Staff in Durham Physics. The programme provides students, across all academic disciplines, opportunities in R&D and employment, in term-time, holiday and summer project environments. This gives undergraduate Physics, Engineering, Science, Law, Arts, Social Sciences and Business students an opportunity to tackle scientific problems, learn about industrial research, project planning and integrate their presentation, project and team-working skills in a high-exporting advanced manufacturing environment, overseen by Carl himself.

Carl is a member of the Hatfield SCR and a great supporter of the Hatfield Association and the Leadership, Strategic & Development teams at the University.

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Members’ News Continued Cover of Milton Howard’s book Kent County Cricket Grounds: 150 years of cricket in the Garden of England

Deaths College has been notified of the deaths of the following Hatfield alumni and friends since publication of the last Record. Every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of this list.

Groves, Ken (1949-52), 6 October 2019 Bell, Douglas Walton (1959-63) 9 October 2020 [see page 127] Button, Ann (College Librarian – 1998-2003) Much loved wife of Stuart and mother of Rory and Robert, died peacefully at home, after a long illness, on 27 December 2020.

Drinkwater, David (1964-68, 1968-69) 6 February 2021 Edwards, Jim (1959-62) 3 February 2020 Heal, Professor Bill (1953-59) 16 January 2021 [see page 128]

MILTON, Howard (1965-68) My 14th book (authored/co-authored) on Kent cricket appeared in the Spring. This is Kent County Cricket Grounds: 150 years of cricket in the Garden of England. The book has been nominated by Sir Tim Rice for the Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year Award.

Moreover, after 40 years’ service as the Honorary Librarian of the Cricket Society, the Society and British Society of Sports’ Historians have decided to name a new national cricket award in my honour.

There is now a Howard Milton Award for Excellence in Cricket Scholarship. The first winner was the Sussex Cricket Museum.

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Hulmes, Professor Edward (Longstanding member of Hatfield SCR) 11 January 2021 [see page 132] Phillips OBE, Michael (1964-67) 21 March 2021 Readman, Barry (1959-63) 9 April 2020 Robinson, Brian (1965-68) End of June 2020 Stratton, James (1990-93) 10 June 2019 (see page 134) Swank, Wayne (Visiting Fellow, Michaelmas 1999) 10 November 2020

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Obituaries and Tributes WALTON BELL, Douglas (1959-63) Doug was born in early 1939 and lived in Kingsbury in north-west London. During the Second World War he was evacuated twice to live with relatives in the northeast of England where he attended the local school, where because of his London accent, some children called him a German.

This was the beginning of his love affair with Durham.

He went to Preston Manor Grammar School and while there he developed his passion for sport. A highlight of his school football career was when he once played against Jimmy Greaves.

After leaving school he worked for a year in what he was later to describe as “a dead-end job”. He was encouraged by his school to apply to Hatfield College.

He always said it was his good fortune to be accepted by one of the UK’s leading Geography departments. He decided to become a teacher and completed his Post Graduate Diploma again at Durham. At a later stage in his career, to his credit, Doug studied for a higher degree at the University of Sheffield gaining a M.Ed degree. After leaving Durham he taught for two years at South Shields Grammar School for Boys. He and Jenny married in December 1963 and their first home was in Whitley Bay. Doug always wanted to travel and in 1965 was appointed to St. John’s Technical School for Boys at RAF Episkopi in Cyprus.

He taught Geography and was a staff

leader on expeditions to the Libyan desert and the Elburz mountains in Persia. In 1970 he became Head of Geography at King Richard School, Dhekelia. The family moved to Pergamos where they spent the next three years.

On returning to England he became Sixth Form Master at Churchdown School, a post he was to occupy for 20 years, developing the size and scope of the Sixth form.

At Hatfield he continued his enthusiasm for sport playing soccer for both Hatfield and for Durham Colleges. He was a speedy right winger who could deliver an accurate cross which yielded plenty of goals. On Wednesdays, his team would play in a local league in places such as Consett, South Shields, Gateshead, Sunderland, and Ryhope. On Saturdays, fixtures were against local Colleges and schools and against Teacher Training Colleges such as Leeds, York and Hull. While teaching in South Shields he played with a local team, the Bohemians. When in Cyprus he founded a team called the Academicals, the strip they played in was, of course, black and white after his beloved Newcastle United, the team he supported the whole of his life. After moving to Gloucestershire, he played for King’s FC eventually becoming their captain then manager.

Doug was always interested in cooking.

While still at school he started preparing meals for the family and quickly learnt that boiling potatoes in the same pan as peas, was not a good idea. He was a member of Laithwaites Wine Club and became very adept at choosing exceptionally good wines to complement his meals, through much practice. Over the last ten years Doug joined a group of former Hatfield students led by Roger Furniss and including Andy Blowers, Ron Bower, Bob Ensum, Jim Miller, Ron Carruthers and Tony Maxwell, that revisited Durham every year for three days taking in a day

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at a test match in Chester-Le-Street. In a pub after the day’s play Bob Ensum would often remind Doug of him becoming very animated and vocal about the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Doug was a loyal supporter of Hatfield Association functions.

Tony Maxwell Geography, 1959-62

Bill Heal in retirement in a café in Budapest

died aged 86, was representing the UK Government on the Council’s biodiversity working group. Unencumbered by official policies, a discussion over a beer with a Swedish colleague, Lars-Erik Liljelund (who became President of the EU’s Environment Agency) turned to how to secure the long-term continuity of arctic environmental research. What was needed, argued Bill, was something that could ‘combine the limited resources of the eight Arctic countries but not be limited by national policies and attitudes - a University of the Arctic’. A year later, the Iqaluit Declaration of the Arctic Council announced the establishment of the said University, ‘a university without walls’. Bill was lead editor of the feasibility study, sub-titled ‘Turning concept into reality’, and published by the University of Lapland.

Now a vibrant network of 143 mainly university institutions, all but 21 are in Arctic states, with Russia having the largest number. Collectively these work to promote education and research in the arctic region, placing strong emphasis on empowering indigenous people through collaborative research and sharing knowledge. This autumn the University of the Arctic will honour Bill as it celebrates its 20th anniversary.

HEAL, Professor Bill (Oliver William) (1953-56, 1956-59) Originator of the University of the Arctic and leader of long-term environmental monitoring, Honorary Fellow of Hatfield College.

A conversation at a meeting of the Arctic Council in 1997 led to the formation of a new, global university. Bill Heal, who has

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Bill made his mark in research as a soils biologist, specializing in the role of ‘decomposers’. Although unglamorous, soil decomposers are the ‘factory of life’ comprising a great diversity of belowground organisms, ranging in size from bacteria and nematodes to earthworms and molluscs. A quarter of the planet’s animal species exist in our soils.

In order to study soil decomposition and factors affecting it researchers devised cotton fabric strips, inserted vertically into soil, with the degree of decomposition assessed by the loss of the strip’s tensile strength. In 1974, Bill led the publication of a paper which for

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Bill Heal (centre) captains Hatfield College Cricket Club 1956

the first time reported the use of cotton strips to compare decomposition rates across Arctic, Antarctic and alpine sites.

Decades before concerns about climate warming, it is only relatively recently that scientists have been building on this work, and keenly researching decomposition – or lack of it – in northern regions, especially across peatlands. The very slow rates of decomposition in peat enable the removal of phenomenal quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as storage of carbon in its acidic and waterlogged conditions, and in doing so helping combat climate heating.

Appointed Head of Soil Science in the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in 1974, Bill made key contributions to the UNESCO International Biological Programme (IBP).

Formed to develop our understanding of

the biological basis of productivity and human welfare, this marked the beginning of the science community unravelling how ecosystems work, and the extent to which people influence them. In 1978 he edited with Don Perkins the very influential Production Ecology of British Moors and Montane Grasslands, the culmination of much of the IPB work, and followed by Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems (1979), with Mike Swift and Jo Anderson, a classic and again very influential textbook on the diversity of soil decomposers.

Born in Gateshead, Bill’s father, Oliver William, a Customs Officer, imbued attention to detail, and his mother, Elsie (née Tate) nurtured an unfailingly positive attitude to life. Educated at Gateshead Grammar School, Bill met his wife-tobe, Elsie (née Stephenson), on a Parisian 129

school trip, and they married on 3 April 1958. Bill came up to Hatfield in 1953 where he studied Natural Sciences (specialising in zoology), and excelled in sport. In the victorious 1954 Cricket Trophy final, The Hatfield Record reported that ‘Heal went from 30 to 50 in five scoring strokes’ and he was awarded Colours in his first season.

Hatfield won the cricket Trophy in all three of Bill’s undergraduate seasons including 1956 as Captain. Bill was Secretary then Captain of HCCC and Secretary of HCRFC; he also played for Durham Colleges CC in 1954, and in 1955 and 1957 as Captain; he played for the University in 1959 [He may have played in other seasons too; these are the only mentions in the Hatfield Record].

Neither marriage nor studying for a PhD seem to have kept him off the cricket field!

After graduating in 1956, Bill stayed in Durham and took up a Nature Conservancy PhD Scholarship supervised by Professor Jim Cragg, studying protozoans found in wetlands in Moor House, the largest National Nature Reserve in England.

Here, Bill joined a team of field ecologists whose members became prominent in academia and society. Bill was not alone as a Hatfield graduate doing a PhD at Moor House: another was Trevor Crisp who was

On moving to Hexham after retirement, Bill was easily persuaded to get involved in College life and soon became President of the Hatfield Association

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Bill Heal (right) talking to Jeff Warburton at Moor House, July 2003.

studying peat runoff and erosion. Based in the highest inhabited house in England, Bill described the climate as resembling that of southern Iceland. He also studied under Muriel Robertson at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine in London. One of the first women to be elected FRS, having made key discoveries about Trypanosoma gambiense, the cause of African sleeping sickness, she delighted Bill with stories about her friend Albert Einstein, and was his PhD external examiner in 1959.

Rapidly developing international expertise in soil microbes, Bill’s work contributed to Moor House becoming the IBP centre for understanding sub-tundra biomes and, in 1967, to devising a new ecosystem model for describing pathways and flows of energy and nutrients. This formed the basis for what is now vital ecosystem restoration work to halt the loss of carbon from degrading peatlands.

In 1982, after a spell “learning scientific politics” at NERC headquarters, Bill was appointed Director of ITE for the north of the UK, and moved to Edinburgh. He galvanised colleagues to work across organisational and subject boundaries.

Working tirelessly, and ten years later, he led the establishment of the Environmental Change Network (ECN). This is now a world-leading, long-term monitoring network drawing on physical, chemical and biological datasets. The 11 terrestrial and 45 freshwater sites provide long-term data

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on environmental change, which informs government policies on climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. The ECN belongs to the International Long-Term Ecological Network (ILTER) operating across 600 sites with the purpose of solving international ecological and socioeconomic problems.

Bill attended the 150th Hatfield anniversary celebrations in 1996 where he almost literally bumped into Tim Burt at the front gates! They already knew one another through ECN but neither had realised the forthcoming Hatfield connection (Tim became Master later that year). Bill was made an Honorary Fellow when he retired in 2001: fitting recognition of a distinguished Hatfield graduate. On moving to Hexham after retirement, Bill was easily persuaded to get involved in College life and soon became President of the Hatfield Association (2004-2009), giving him a seat on Governing Body (as College Council was then called). Bill’s wise advice and enthusiasm were greatly welcomed.

Bill and Elsie came frequently to formal dinners and were always a delight to welcome back.

An Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and Honorary Fellow of Hatfield College, Bill was appointed one of the few members of the Circle of Elders of the University of the Arctic. Avuncular, a popular leader, and an inveterate networker, Bill was par excellence the innovative scientific multi-disciplinary collaborator. Tragically, Alzheimer’s disease took hold of Bill as it had his brother, Alan.

Bill is survived by Elsie, sons Stephen and Duncan, and five grandchildren.

Oliver William (Bill Heal), ecologist and multi-disciplinary environmentalist, born 14 November 1934; died 16 January 2021.

Tim Burt, Des Thompson, Rob Marrs, Stephen Heal.

Tim Burt was Master of Hatfield College, 1996-2017; Des Thompson works for NatureScot and was Visiting Research Fellow at Hatfield in 2015; Rob Marrs (Liverpool University) is Vice-Chairman of the Field Studies Council; Stephen Heal is Bill and Elsie’s elder son.

Bill and Elsie at a function in Hatfield dining hall

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Edward Hulmes with wife, Shirley, at Congregation

at the age of 60, being a member of the Hatfield College Senior Common Room.

In 1980-81 he was William Belden Noble Lecturer at Harvard University, and for many years was a Member of the Centre of Theological Inquiry at Princeton in the USA. In 1999 he became a Fellow of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham and continued to supervise MA and PhD students into his 80s. A special award was established in his name in 2010, the Edward Hulmes’ prize for excellence in Research.

Edward became a Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem supporting their work in the Holy Land, undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 2003.

HULMES, Professor Edward KCHS MA BD DPhil (Oxon) Edward was born in Manchester on 13 June 1932. The family evacuated to live near his mother’s family in Cumberland during the war, remaining there for many years. On graduating from Liverpool University, he spent his National Service as an officer in Army Intelligence in Bavaria, being allowed a long weekend’s leave to return to Heswall to marry Shirley. After National Service, Edward worked in an administrative capacity in West Africa for five years.

On his return to England, he began his teaching career. Over the course of his career, he wrote a number of books and articles on aspects of Islamic Studies and Education.

He went to Oxford with his family in 1973 to take up the post of Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies.

His DPhil at Oriel built on his observations of Christianity and Islam during his time in West Africa.

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Throughout his life, Edward’s personal life centred on his family, music (mainly playing the piano and clarinet with friends) and on languages (speaking German, Arabic and Russian). Edward loved fly fishing with his friends, the hills around the Lake District, where he lived as a child, and in Monsal Dale in Derbyshire where he lived for the last 40 years. He leaves behind his wife, Shirley, three daughters, Rosalind, Heather and Elizabeth (Lilly), and five grandchildren.

Rosalind Kenrick Edward and Teazel, Easdale Island

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PHILLIPS, Michael OBE (1964-67) Michael, known to his friends as Mike, was born in Rawalpindi, then India and now Pakistan, to the distinguished diplomat Sir Horace Phillips who later became Ambassador to Indonesia and Turkey as well as High Commissioner to Tanzania.

Mike spent much of his childhood in the Middle East before being sent off to prep school, followed by Glenalmond in Scotland where he thrived and became head boy. In those days the provision of educational facilities for British expatriates abroad was usually limited and often nonexistent. Boarding school was not so much a choice as a necessity.

I first met Mike during Michaelmas Term in 1964 where, like me, he had signed up to read Modern Middle Eastern Studies with his language being Farsi. This was a natural choice for a young man of his background and interest. As well as following me in his choice of degree he also demonstrated excellent judgement in taking over my room, H4 in Pace block, before graduating in 1967. Mike was an all-round sportsman, but his particular passion was rugby and he played for the College.

In 1967, I left the UK to work for The Eastern Bank Ltd in Bahrain. Two years later on reading the staff directory I learnt that Mike was working for The Chartered Bank in Karachi; they were in effect the same organisation and later became rolled into what is now Standard Chartered Bank.

I wrote to him asking if he realised that we were both working for the same employer.

I recollect his reply as being somewhat ambiguous. Mike had a distinguished and varied banking career serving in Germany, the USA and many parts of Asia. It was while he was running the bank’s business in Taiwan that he was awarded the OBE for establishing the British Chamber of Commerce in Taipei. He retired in 2000 after 33 years’ service.

I knew Mike as a very convivial and generous hearted man.

It was when he was in Karachi that he met his wife, Judith, and they were married in 1971. Two daughters followed, Rebecca in Hong Kong and Anna in Bahrain. His family was Mike’s first priority and he became a grandfather to three grandchildren upon whom he doted. Upon retirement, Judith and Mike retired to a village just outside Retford in Nottinghamshire. His was an active retirement. Rugby remained a passion; his playing career had been cut short by a shoulder injury which required an operation and so for many years he refereed wherever he could find a rugby scene, notwithstanding shoulder dislocations which he took in his stride. He became a committee member of the East Retford Rugby Club, was a keen supporter of Scotland and a frequent visitor to Murrayfield. In many other ways he was active in his local community, serving on the Parish council and supporting his local church.

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overnight guest. I tried to sneak out early the following morning without being noticed but to my huge embarrassment was accosted by Judith, Mike very sensibly remaining sound asleep. Judith was unperturbed and I was gently seen on my way after being offered a strong coffee.

Diplomacy must be in the genes of the family; I have only one recollection of the incident ever again being mentioned.

Many years later I enjoyed their company at my home in Hertfordshire. It was another enjoyable, very convivial and well-lubricated evening. My stamina not being what it was I excused myself at about two in the morning.

I was astonished and delighted to find the next morning that all the many glasses and other necessities has been washed up by Mike before he went to bed. That surely must be the mark of a true gentleman.

Mike had suffered from congestive heart disease over many years which he battled with good humour; he was not one for letting life get him down. On 21 March 2021, he died peacefully and painlessly in his sleep in a hospice where he was well cared for. On his last day he was able to spend a little time separately with Judith and both of his daughters and managed to enjoy the Six Nations Rugby match when his beloved Scotland beat England.

Inevitably, as part of expatriate life circling the globe in different directions years can pass without seeing colleagues and friends and so it happened between Mike and me but we always kept in touch. I am glad that I had several opportunities to chat with him by phone before he died. When an old friend moves on a little of one’s own life goes as well but with Mike, I am left with a sense of privilege at being able to call him “friend”. Hatfield can join his family and many friends in being proud of his life and his memory.

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STRATTON, James (1990-93) James read Archaeology at Durham, enjoyed the periodic digs and always challenged pre-conceived ideas which may have fitted an individual’s theory but lacked fact-based evidence. This philosophy stood him in good stead as an Accountant, his chosen profession. He enjoyed his time at Hatfield, played rugby for Hatfield and also represented them in athletics.

After leaving Durham, James studied and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at EY. Once qualified, he took a year off to travel extensively throughout Africa and Central America, stopping in Guatemala to learn Spanish. On his return to the UK he worked in the Finance Departments of several FTSE 100 Companies, his last appointment being in Paris as part of a team investigating fraud. True to his belief in fact-based data, he was an insightful auditor and uncovered trails which had been overlooked by others but led to vital discoveries. He was shrewd, totally honest and honourable in his work and a well-liked and respected Team Leader.

James was a focussed sportsman. He took up triathlon and joined Thames Turbo in 2002. Through his dedication and hard training, he was selected for the GB team for the 2005 ITU World Championships in Hawaii where he took second in the Aquathon before racing the Triathlon. He was selected on two further occasions for the GB ITU World Championships team.

He maintained his Triathlon training in order to compete in the European IronMan Championships in Frankfurt where he achieved his goal of breaking 10 hours by some 30 minutes.

James raced for London Dynamo from 2005 to 2015 in 30 open time trials at 10, 25, 50 and 100 miles and was always in contention for the top spot, taking it outright on three occasions. His 51 minute PB for 25 miles on an honest course shows

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his class. He also raced in five National Time Trail Championships and the National 3up TT championships. He always placed well. He won the Surrey Cycle Racing League individual TT and was part of the winning 4up team time trial team on two occasions.

the UK or abroad making friends en route, covering vast distances and experiencing dangers and the freedom of the outdoors.

In 2018 he made his last such trip to Guyana, where he and his partner explored the rainforest and the wildlife of the interior.

Unassuming, hard-working and a popular person both at work and at play, James had a delightful sense of humour and always found time to support family, friends and colleagues. Blessed with a challenging, entrepreneurial and inquiring mind, he explored a range of interests including the piano, writing, poetry and reading and he was always an informed, intelligent and interesting conversationalist. He was passionate about the natural world and hated wastefulness.

Periodically he took off on an expedition on his own or with a close friend, either in

James died from an aggressive form of cancer after a short illness. He leaves behind his cherished partner Zoe, his parents, sister and two brothers and many close friends and colleagues. He bequeathed the bulk of his estate for the purchase of land to be planted with oaks and other hardwood trees to be known as JamesWood.

Mrs Suzette Stratton

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Assistant Master and Acting Vice-Master (January-June 2021) Katie Stobbs Acting Assistant Master (January-April 2021) Jonathan Rooney

Honorary Fellows Professor Robert Allison Dr Sheila Armstrong Dr Bill Bryson Mr Richard Burge Mrs Elizabeth Burt Professor Tim Burt Professor Sir Kenneth Calman Mr Will Carling Mrs Cynthia Connolly Mr Ian Curry Professor Douglas Davies Lord Richard Dannatt Professor Terry Eagleton Professor John Gaskin Dr Will Greenwood The Reverend Theo Harman Professor Ray Hudson Dr Barbara Laithwaite Dr Tony Laithwaite Dr James Lancelot Mr Barry Northrop Mr Bruce Oldfield Mr Marcus Rose Ms Angel Scott Sir Tim Smit Dr Andrew Strauss Sir John Timpson Dr Jeremy Vine Dame Gillian Weir Mr Barrie Wetton Mrs Yolande Wright

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