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The Queen's College was founded in 1341, and is a consituent college of the University of Oxford. The College is well known for its distinctive 18th century architecture, its excellent college choir, and its beautiful library.

📜 Hidden in plain sight for centuries17 fragments of medieval manuscripts, recycled as covers for Guernsey’s administrat...
08/09/2026

📜 Hidden in plain sight for centuries

17 fragments of medieval manuscripts, recycled as covers for Guernsey’s administrative notebooks, are transforming our understanding of the island’s literary past.

Working with Guernsey’s Island Archives, Queen’s Fellow in English Professor Tamara Atkin has helped uncover what the fragments reveal about the books read and circulated in medieval Guernsey.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/1h6c50ZKllh
đŸ“· Prof Atkin and Callum Tostevin-Hall, the Archives Assistant who found the fragments, taken by colleague Dr David Rundle

What does empire still have to do with Britain today?In the latest episode of ‘Provox’, the Provost is joined by award-w...
07/09/2026

What does empire still have to do with Britain today?

In the latest episode of ‘Provox’, the Provost is joined by award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera FRSL for a thoughtful conversation about family, social mobility, empire, and the debates that continue to define British society.

Sanghera reflects on growing up in Wolverhampton and they explore the legacy of empire, racism and reparations.

🎧 Listen now: https://ow.ly/oUOq50ZKhRJ

đŸŒ± 🚜 Can a grass leaf help solve global food security?The answer could transform the future of farming.In the latest epis...
27/08/2026

đŸŒ± 🚜 Can a grass leaf help solve global food security?

The answer could transform the future of farming.

In the latest episode of ‘Provox’, the Provost speaks to leading plant scientist and Fellow at Queen's Professor Jane Langdale CBE FRS about the quest to engineer rice to photosynthesise more efficiently.

They explore the science behind C4 photosynthesis and why it could help crops use less water and fertiliser whilst producing higher yields. Discover how decades of research might then lead to a solution for one of humanity's greatest challenges: feeding a growing population sustainably.

🎧 Listen now: https://ow.ly/3lww50ZG457

Queen’s
 in 'Harper’s Bazaar' magazine? 👀Perhaps not where you’d expect to encounter the Queen's College Translation Exc...
20/08/2026

Queen’s
 in 'Harper’s Bazaar' magazine? 👀

Perhaps not where you’d expect to encounter the Queen's College Translation Exchange
but the September issue includes a fascinating piece on the skills linguists bring to the workplace.

💬 QTE founder Charlotte Ryland talks about why learning languages develops far more than the ability to communicate: "it's about how you interpret what people are saying and read between the lines".

These human skills are becoming more valuable, not less, and the feature serves as a reminder that languages belong in conversations far beyond the languages classroom. Watch this space for an exciting development in our graduate offering in this area...

🎉 Congratulations to Queen’s Medical student Danny McAlea, who has been highly commended in the NIHR School for Primary ...
20/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Queen’s Medical student Danny McAlea, who has been highly commended in the NIHR School for Primary Care Research George Lewith Prize for his essay exploring AI-enabled triage in general practice.

đŸ©ș As AI tools are adopted across healthcare, Danny’s research raises some important questions: is implementation moving faster than the evidence?

His study found a striking contrast between the relatively immature evidence base and the scale of AI implementation, particularly when it comes to understanding how these technologies might affect patients’ access to care.

Can AI triage recognise important red flags? Can it account for the different ways people express medical need? And could digital systems inadvertently make healthcare easier to access for some patients than others? For Danny, these questions underline why clinicians need a voice in the policies shaping the future of healthcare.

🔗 We spoke to Danny about the promise and risks of AI in medicine and how being challenged to question his own reasoning at Queen’s has shaped his approach to medicine and research: https://ow.ly/Ba6c50ZBPUH

🎉 Congratulations to recent graduate Kieran Agg (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021) who has won the 2026 Katharin...
19/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to recent graduate Kieran Agg (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021) who has won the 2026 Katharine Burr Blodgett Award for his outstanding DPhil research.

🩠 Kieran's research zoomed in to the molecular scale to explore some fascinating properties of liquids. Now at the Ellison Institute of Technology, he’s helping develop next-generation sensing technologies with the potential to improve how diseases are diagnosed.

🔗 From conversations across disciplines, to funding that enabled him to share his research internationally, Kieran reflects on how the Queen’s community and its support shaped his DPhil: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/news/recent-graduate-receives-national-award-for-outstanding-dphil-research/

👑 A royal gift to Queen’s, but there’s rather more to the story than that
400 years ago, Queen’s successfully petitioned...
18/08/2026

👑 A royal gift to Queen’s, but there’s rather more to the story than that


400 years ago, Queen’s successfully petitioned Charles I and Henrietta Maria for the right to appoint clergy to six churches in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

The story behind that gift takes us into the world of 17th-century Queen’s, from royal patronage and ambitious Provosts to reluctant Fellows, accusations of bribery, and some seriously impressive archival documents.

We're excited to share, for the first time, one of the pop-up Archive exhibitions as an online exhibition by Archivist Dr Amy Ebrey.

🔎 Explore: https://ow.ly/6cGn50ZAuav

🎉 Congratulations to Jem Perry (PPE, 2023), who has been awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University.As Jem leav...
17/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Jem Perry (PPE, 2023), who has been awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University.

As Jem leaves Oxford, we asked what things he’ll miss most about Queen’s. His answer: the close-knit community and eating together in Hall.

đŸœïž At Queen’s, eating together is about more than sharing a meal– it’s a chance to bring together students from different subjects and year groups and creates space for conversations and friendships you might not otherwise have found.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/sT5J50ZzjZ0

🎉 Congratulations to students receiving their A-Level results today We’re excited to welcome our new members to Queen'...
13/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to students receiving their A-Level results today

We’re excited to welcome our new members to Queen's this October! If you’ll be joining us, we’d love to connect
please tag us, comment below, or just follow along for all things Queen's!

p.s. some poetic license is being used today - our grass is not currently that green! 💚

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🌒 As people look skywards for today’s solar eclipse, we’re looking back to another eclipse and to a former Queen’s stude...
12/08/2026

🌒 As people look skywards for today’s solar eclipse, we’re looking back to another eclipse and to a former Queen’s student who wanted to make sure no one panicked when the sky went dark.

Astronomer Edmond Halley predicted with extraordinary accuracy the path of a total solar eclipse across southern England in 1715. At a time when eclipses could still be regarded as ominous portents, Halley published a chart explaining exactly what would happen, hoping that science would prevent “surprise to the People”.

Halley studied at Queen’s for two years from 1673, and his rare 'A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon' (1715) has recently joined the College Library’s collections thanks to the generosity of an Old Member.

🔗 Read the story: https://ow.ly/AqvW50ZyyVI

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