Monday 9th June 2025

Culture

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 and voluminous skirts often spring to mind – ornate, impractical, and rooted firmly in the unenlightened...

Food, fashion, and escapism in a cost of living crisis

Food costs have been front and centre in newsreels as of recent months, whether...

Oxford Fashion Gala’s ‘Metamorphosis’ reflects the beauty of change

The Oxford Fashion Gala was back and bigger than ever, with a larger venue,...

Tailoring expectations: Couture culture shocks

Academia has a historic relationship with fashion, both officially and unofficially. The former manifests...

Lazy make-up-beauty tips every busy girl needs to know

Beth Brand shares tips and tricks for doing your make-up in half the time

Decoding Fashion and Politics

Miriam Nemmaoui looks at the uneasy coexistence of fashion and politics

The ageing face of fashion

Francesca Salisbury says it’s time for the fashion industry to grow up

The face of spring – this season’s big beauty trends

Cherwell's new Beauty Correspondent Beth Brand talks us through this seasons best beauty trends from the SS17 runways

AW17 Rundown: London, Paris and Milan

Chloe Dootson-Graube assesses the big trends from this year's catwalks

It’s Fashion, But is it Art?

Eleanor Birdsall-Smith explores the role gender plays in prejudice against fashion

C+: Why is my curriculum so white?

Becky Cook reports on the lack of diversity in the Oxford curriculum

C+: Race and Access

Lowri Howard assesses the university's "encouraging" progress on race and access

C+ Investigation: Race at Oxford

C+ investigates the continued relevance of race and ethnicity to issues of access, fairness and human rights

Stella McCartney AW17 is sophisticated, bold and beautiful

Francesca Salisbury is impressed with Stella McCartney's new Autumn/Winter 2017 collection.

C+: Migrant rights in Oxford

Emma Christie discusses how Oxford students have been responding to the ongoing refugee crisis

Cherwell Broadcasting visits the Oxford Lancers

Cherwell Broadcasting joins the Oxford Lancers American Football team at a training session

Cherwell Broadcasting meets Professor Chris Gosden

Cherwell Broadcasting speaks to the archaeological Professor Chris Gosden at his talk on 'English Landscapes and Identities'

Oxford Revue Comedy Club

Cherwell Broadcasting is here to cheer you up with a video on the Oxford Revue Comedy Club

Imagination and immediacy in travel writing

Ellie Duncan interviews Neil McQuillian, Senior Editor at Rough Guides

Lord Hennessy on British politics and the rise of populism

https://youtu.be/1l2RmR5YVzA Cherwell Broadcasting Editor Theo Davies-Lewis speaks to Lord Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA. A notable English historian and academic specialising in the...

Occupy Mars with Kyle Grant

https://youtu.be/wn8RP6_M8gs Last week, we went to the Oxford University Aeronautical Society event with Kyle Grant. In collaboration with NASA, his project specialises in the design...

A disturbing worldview undercut by patchy acting

Olivia Cormack finds that it's not just the costumes in Contractions that need ironing out

England Rugby in Oxford

https://youtu.be/0R-pNvsJHvE   This week, England Rugby are training in Oxford ahead of their remaining 6 Nations fixtures. They are the defending champions, and are currently top...

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