Latest news from Balliol

We warmly congratulate Current and Old Members of Balliol who have received awards in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019.

In the 2018–2019 admissions cycle, Balliol made a majority of its offers for undergraduate places to female students for the first time.

English Tutorial Fellow Professor Adam Smyth has — with Dr Dennis Duncan of UCL — edited a collection of essays that pulls the book apart. 

Engineering undergraduate Andreea-Maria Oncescu (Lubbock Scholar) won the runner-up prize in a project poster competition held during the 45th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture on 22 May 2019.

On 14 May 2019 Balliol alumni David Gilmour (1971) and Simon Mayall (1975) came to talk to the Balliol History Society about their memories of studying History with Richard Cobb (Fellow 1962–1972, Honorary Fellow 1977–1996) and Maurice Keen (Fellow and Tutor in Modern History 1961–2000, Emeritus Fellow 2000–2012), in the 1960s-1970s.

On Tuesday 14 May 2019 the Master welcomed Old Members and friends to the beautiful Leathersellers’ Hall in London for the inaugural 1263 Circle drinks reception. 

Watch the Balliol Boat Club as they prepare for Summer VIIIs on 1 June 2019.

The first of the new accommodation blocks at the Master’s Field has been completed and students have moved in.

Thanks to generous alumni support, Balliol’s Junior Common Room has been refurbished.

Congratulations to Professor David Wallace, who is to be the A.W. Mellon Chair in History and Philosophy of Science and in Philosophy, at Pittsburgh.