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Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

Every morning on my way to college, I pass through the cobblestoned, crowded St Mary’s Passage, overhearing stories of Oxford’s most famous literary duo, C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien....

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‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

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Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

"poetry told across language through performance and music"

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‘Fright’s Out!’ at the Ultimate Picture Palace: ‘Dracula’s Daughter’

To call Dracula’s Daughter (1936) campy would be an understatement. In many ways it...

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Alexandra Sutton is thoroughly impressed by this controversial drama.

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Photo Competition Winner – ‘Snow’

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Focus on… Dance in Oxford

Tess Colley talks to Emily Romain from Dream Again Dance Co.

Preview: Dull Roots, Spring Rain

Chloe Bond leaves this contemporary dance piece intrigued and frustrated

Review: The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law

Daniel Sperrin is underwhelmed by this latest offering from the Welsh rockers

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A book to tear you apart

Huw Fullerton reviews 'Unknown Pleasures'

Preview: The Aleph

Georgina Wilson is impressed by this tense, sci-fi play

Just monkeying around

Liam Steward-George on being a thesp after Oxford

‘The Bone Season’ book cover released

The cover of a book written by a St Anne's student has been released.

LiveFridays at the Ashmolean

New to the Ashmolean museum this year are the highly anticipated Live Friday events. Rolf Merchant went to see how the very first, 'An Evening With the Gods', unfolded