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To anyone outside the Oxford ring road, ask for an Oxford college and a few famous names might crop up. Christ Church, w...
27/10/2025

To anyone outside the Oxford ring road, ask for an Oxford college and a few famous names might crop up. Christ Church, with its meadows and vast quads, Magdalen’s deer, Brasenose’s recent appearance in Saltburn or Balliol’s penchant for producing Tory politicians. But mention the humble Lady Margaret Hall, or the lesser spotted St Peter’s, and you’re more likely to be left with blank stares than a burst of reminiscence.

🖋️ Arun Lewis

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It has been nearly 250 years since the creator of Emma Woodhouse was born in Hampshire. Jane Austen’s novel Emma was pub...
26/10/2025

It has been nearly 250 years since the creator of Emma Woodhouse was born in Hampshire. Jane Austen’s novel Emma was published almost 210 years ago and the Theatre Royal Bath brought Ryan Craig’s romance-heavy adaptation to the Oxford Playhouse this week.

🖋️ Ivett Berényi

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So, what exactly is floorball? Picture hockey, but lighter, cheaper, and mercifully indoor. Played on a standard badmint...
25/10/2025

So, what exactly is floorball? Picture hockey, but lighter, cheaper, and mercifully indoor. Played on a standard badminton-sized court, two teams of five field players plus a goalie try to hit a light plastic ball into the opposing net using full-sized sticks.

🖋️ Ava Doherty

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Fennec Fox Productions, the student theatre group behind acclaimed productions of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children and Ella ...
23/10/2025

Fennec Fox Productions, the student theatre group behind acclaimed productions of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children and Ella Hickson’s The Writer, returns to tackle one of Chekhov’s staple dramas: Uncle Vanya. Bringing the environmentalist aspect of the play to the forefront, the production uses a recent translation by Robert Icke to modernise the attitudes of the iconic playwright.

🖋️ Hannah Stewart

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Fennec Fox Productions, the student theatre group behind acclaimed productions of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children and Ella ...
23/10/2025

Fennec Fox Productions, the student theatre group behind acclaimed productions of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children and Ella Hickson’s The Writer, returns to tackle one of Chekhov’s staple dramas: Uncle Vanya.

🖋️Hannah Stewart

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At the University of Oxford, there’s hardly enough time to get the prescribed work done each week, let alone to sit down...
23/10/2025

At the University of Oxford, there’s hardly enough time to get the prescribed work done each week, let alone to sit down and breathe. But without time to dedicate to anything other than an essay, where does that leave us film-lovers? To ensure you don’t waste what little break you get at uni, here our my picks for the best features under 90 minutes.

🖋️ Isobel Wanstall

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Fast forward four weeks, and there is still no party. Rather, there is Your Party, which has no policy, no leaders, and ...
20/10/2025

Fast forward four weeks, and there is still no party. Rather, there is Your Party, which has no policy, no leaders, and is still not a party. However, it has reportedly 600,000 sign-ups, which seems to be the only thing going for it. It’s been widely reported that the roll-out of whatever Corbyn and Sultana are planning has been messy and underwhelming. However, I think there’s more to it than that. I think it is emblematic of a kind of arrogance and hubris that is incredibly dangerous for the future of Britain.

🖋️ Emily Dillon

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This year, the 16th December marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, renowned for the lasting impact her six novels hav...
19/10/2025

This year, the 16th December marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, renowned for the lasting impact her six novels have had on English literature. Jane Austen’s novels are perhaps the most prominent cultural relic of the Regency era, owing to the immortalisation of contemporary fashions, social practices and linguistic conventions within their volumes.

🖋️ Eve Richardson

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The Life and Mind building is one to the University’s largest building projects to date, having opened on 15th October 2...
17/10/2025

The Life and Mind building is one to the University’s largest building projects to date, having opened on 15th October 2025. This facility will be the home to the Departments of Biology and Experimental Psychology, as well as the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research.

🖋️ Julia Stacey

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Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey delivered her annual Oration at the Sheldonian Theatre on 7 October, sett...
15/10/2025

Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey delivered her annual Oration at the Sheldonian Theatre on 7 October, setting out a vision of an institution guided by “hope, truth and kindness” amid global uncertainty and rapid technological change

🖋️ Abhipsa Panda

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Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, is both a companion piece and a counterpoint to 2024’s The Tor...
15/10/2025

Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, is both a companion piece and a counterpoint to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. Gone is the angst of her sprawling, self-conscious, greyest album. The Life of a Showgirl exists in technicolour. While it diverges from Tortured Poets, it pulls in threads from across Swift’s wider discography: the glitziness of Midnights, the disco pulse of 1989 (hardly surprising given the return of Max Martin & Shellback as producers), and the bite of Reputation. Though you might find yourself wishing there was more of the latter – Showgirl never fully bares its teeth.

🖋️ Sophie Harrison

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Our first print social is open to all students, not just the editorial team. Come and meet us at The Oxford Retreat at 7...
14/10/2025

Our first print social is open to all students, not just the editorial team. Come and meet us at The Oxford Retreat at 7:30pm this Friday - both a great way to get your foot in the door and pitch some article ideas, or just to have a few drinks, wind down, and make some new friends.

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