Applications may now be made to sit the examinations to be held on  29-30 September 2016 (and 1 October for some candidates).  The Fellowships by Examination will be tenable from November 2016.  See Further Particulars and Online Application Form.

Closing date: Monday, 5  September 2016, 5pm (UK time). 

It is with great sadness that the College reports the death on 28 May of Lord Neill of Bladen, QC.  Patrick Neill was Warden of All Souls from 1977-1995, having been a Fellow since 1950.  From 1985 to 1989 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University. 

Dmitri Levitin, Post-doctoral Fellow of All Souls College, has been named as the first winner of the biennial Leszek Kolakowski Honorary Fellowship by the Foundation for Polish Science.  The award recognizes scholars with distinguished research achievements in the history of ideas and medieval and modern philosophy to 1939.

It is with great sadness that the College reports the death on 1 March of Peter Mathias CBE FBA, who was a Fellow of the College and Chichele Professor of Economic History from 1969-1987, and an Emeritus Fellow subsequently. He was Master of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1987 to 1995.

Dr Birke Häcker, Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Therese von Bayern Prize 2015 by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.  This prize, awarded jointly with four other female academics, has been granted every three years since 1997 in commemoration of Princess Theresa of Bavaria (1850-1925), an avid ethnologist, zoologist/botanist and prolific travel writer, who in 1897 became the first woman ever to receive an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

It is with great sadness that the College announces the death on 4 February of Sir Jeremy Morse KCMG. Sir Jeremy was elected to a Prize Fellowship in 1953. After a career mainly in Finance he became a Distinguished Fellow in 1996 then Honorary Fellow in 2011.  He was Chancellor of Bristol University from 1989 to 2003.

A memorial service will be held at New College on Friday, 3 June at 2.30pm, followed by tea at All Souls College.

It is with great sadness that the College announces the death on 21 January of Professor Michael Sheringham FBA.  Michael was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of the College from 2004 to 2015, when he became an Emeritus Fellow.  He previously taught at the University of Kent and Royal Holloway. 

The funeral will take place in All Souls College Chapel on Friday, 5 February at 1.30 pm, followed by tea in the Hall.

The College is pleased to announce that the following have accepted offers of Visiting Fellowships for the 2016 – 2017 academic year:

Dr Francesco Ademollo (Università di Firenze, Philosophy, Michaelmas Term)

Dr Edel Bhreathnach (The Discovery Programme, Dublin, Medieval History, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton, History, Trinity Term)

Dr Richard Davenport-Hines (Independent Researcher, History, Michaelmas Term)

Dr Silvia Ferrara (Sapienza, University of Rome, Classical Studies, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Dr Marco Gentile (Università degli Studi di Parma, Medieval History, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Professor Simon Keefe (University of Sheffield, Musicology, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Maggie Kilgour (McGill University, Literature, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Øystein Linnebo (University of Oslo, Philosophy, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Archaeology, Trinity Term)

Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran, Oriental Studies, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Dr Jesse Norman MP (Independent Researcher, Politics, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Dr Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln, History of Science, Trinity Term)

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Economic History, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Professor Megan Sweeney (University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Catherine Wilson (University of York, Philosophy, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Christopher Hood, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has with Ruth Dixon been awarded the 2015 Louis Brownlow Book Award by the United States National Academy of Public Administration, for their book A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government.

The Warden and Fellows have elected the following to Fellowships by Examination at the College:  Claire Hall (History; Christ Church); Hasan Dindjer (Law; New College); and Andrew Wynn Owen (English; Magdalen).