Van Mildert College, Durham the Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival. The portrait of William Van Mildert, whom the college is named after, hangs at one end of Van Mildert dining hall, along with portraits of the former Principals and Masters of the college. The College library is well equipped with over 12,000 books & journals and along with St John's College Archives is the only other College library in Durham to be listed in The National Archives. Opposite the library is the newly refurbished Kent Room, which is where the library's fiction collection is kept. The library is run by a part-time librarian and the
Van Mildert College, Durham as of 2012 Van Mildert College has been twinned with Halifax College, University of York. David Harper is the current Principal of the College, a palaeontologist and former Professor of Palaeontology in the University of Copenhagen. The following list is of the past Masters & Principals of the College: The college has two fellowships for visiting scholars; the Arthur Prowse Fellowship, named after the College's first Master, and the Arnold Bradshaw Fellowship. The fellowships are typically awarded for one academic term in conjunction with the Institute of Advanced Study with the fellow residing in the College and becoming a member