Friday 17th October 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford: India Matthews

India Matthews, president of the Oxford Fashion Society, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s style inspiration of the week is India Matthews, a third-year English...

Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

It often feels as if the so-called ‘Oxford bubble’ is full of binaries: commoners...

Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

Not often do I get to break out the Middle Eastern kaftan hanging idle...

Common threads: Historical fashion and its lessons for our time

When we think of historical fashion, images of towering wigs, tight-laced corsets, heavy brocades...

A Year Abroad: Paris

Freshers week in Paris

A knife in the back?

Is cosmetic surgery the answer to all our problems?

Awkward Viewing: Brokeback Mountain with your mother

Josh Rosaler squirms his way through gay cowboys with mother dearest

Interview: Peter James

The bestselling author talks about organ trafficking, literature and tips for aspiring writers

Truckin’ Down Cowley Road

From the creators of Truck comes the new OX4 festival

Getting naked at Climate Camp

Exhibitionists or activists? Cherwell interviews Oxford students protesting in London

Summer Food Come Rain or Shine

Food ideas for the season, whatever the weather

A Week of Standing Out

Georgia Lindsay spends a week living on the other side of fashion.

Our Man Abroad: Damascus

Nude bathing and political turmoil in the Syrian capital.

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

So lighten up

Saving Squirrel Nutkin

The comeback of native Britain

Our Man Abroad: Jordan

Hector Keate takes us off the beaten track

A Hitchhikers Guide to a Free Ride

Looking for the truth on the open road...

The power of a bag

Are designer bags are worth the investment?

A touch of class

The English are as obsessed by class as always.

Oxford University’s Open Days

Cherwell meets organisers and prospective applicants at Oxford's annual open days

Economics with a social conscience?

Cherwell talk to Miriam Kennet, Founder and Director of the Green Economics Institute

Sound and Vision

Dave McLeod talks to author Kieron Gillen about his music inspired graphic novel Phonogram

Heard it on the grapevine

Alex Linsey reveals the truth about wine tasting and what’s good for under a tenner

News Roundup: Week 6

The news team discusses sex, ducks and rocking the vote.

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