Christopher Hood, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has with Ruth Dixon been awarded the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize by the Political Studies Association, for their book A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government.

Dr Margaret Bent CBE FBA, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology by the British Academy. This prize commemorates Derek Allen FBA (1910–1975), a former Secretary and Treasurer of the Academy. Annual awards are made in turn in musicology, numismatics and Celtic studies. 2016 is the turn of musicology. Margaret has been honoured for her contribution to the field of musicology, in particular English, French and Italian music from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

Professor Catherine Morgan, Fellow of All Souls College, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

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.