Sunday 21st December 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford – Joe Osei

Joe Osei, budding stylist and general fashion icon, shares his style secrets and where he’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s current fashion inspiration is Joe Osei, a third-year PPE student at...

Brown boots, black boots, and the politics of autumn style

Autumn always brings a question of existential importance: brown boots or black boots? It’s...

“You’re going to make mistakes”: Katie Robinson on fashion and sustainability

Katie Robinson is a sustainable fashion journalist, content creator, and campaigner, with experience working...

Alternative Oxford: The changing stereotypes surrounding body modifications

Cienna Jennings visits Oxford’s renowned tattoo and piercings studio, Tigerlily, to speak with the...

A gem of a trend

Harriet Baker reviews the jewel in the crown of AW 2011

Winter Micro-trends: Stack it!

In the first instalment of our winter micro-trends series, Emma Jude guides us through the micro-trend of the moment - bracelet stacking!

Lionhead – A Radio Play

A quiet pub afternoon is interrupted by a stressful encounter, and the ensuing sharp exchange brings childhood traumas to light and threatens to unbalance the status quo

Headline Superheroes: Meta-Injunction Official Movie Trailer

Headline Superheroes Andrew and Tom present this summer's blockbuster; a tale so menacing it can't be told... so menacing, indeed, that the fact that it can't be told... can't be told

The woes of work wear

Cherwell's editors share their experience of the murky world of adult dressing and the pitfalls of the summer internship

Extra Time – Week 8

'Sun, Strawberries and Cream and Sue Barker.' Aleks Klosok reflects upon 125 Years of Tennis at Wimbledon and previews this year's mens and womens draw as well as looking ahead to some of the big sporting events coming up

Rory and Tim’s Friday Frolics – episode 5

In a controversial move to arouse public interest, Rory and Tim have released this week's Friday Frolics on a Monday. Take that Rebecca Black's tyrannical calendar system!

Twenty Questions Episode 2

More answers from Oxford's finest...

Breaking Legs – The Stage News Podcast Week 6

Rebecca Tatlow gives us a taste of what's to come next week on the Oxford stage, including Brideshead Revisited and Marlowe's Tamburlaine

The Unseen University – 2. The Codrington Library

Oliver Moody presents the second in our architectural series, gaining a rare peek into All Soul's Gothic revival Codrington library

Cherworld Week 6 – Cross-Dressing Bops

Beth McKernan and Robin McGhee discuss OUSU's proposal that colleges cease setting gender-bending bop themes on the grounds that they are offensive to transgendered individuals

Twenty Questions – Episode 1

A snapshot of responses from some of Oxford's recognizable faces.

Rory and Tim’s Friday Frolics – Episode 4

Rory and Tim return to your screens with no discernable drop in quality

Cherworld Trinity Week 5

Beth McKernan and Robin Max McGhee discuss the recent concern that there is still racism at Oxford

Breaking Legs – The Stage News Podcast Week 4

May Anderson and Rebecca Tatlow reveal the coming week's drama schedule, including new writing A Row Of Parked Cars and An Evening of Dance at the Moser theatre.

Review: Topshop’s ‘Urban Traveller’

Grace looks at Topshop's latest line of festival chic. Expect plenty of rhinestones, tie dye, prints, sequins, and studs

Extra Time – Week 3

Aleks Klosok looks back at the Barlcays Premier League Season and previews England's opening Test Match of the Summer as well as looking ahead to some of the big sporting events coming up in the next week

Daytripper Episode 1: The Wychwood Brewery

Adam Taylor takes us away from the hustle and bustle of town and gown to one of Oxfordshire's iconic idylls: the Wychwood Brewery in Witney, home of popular beers Hobgoblin and Oxford Gold.

Cherworld Trinity Week 3

Robin Max McGhee and Bethan McKernan discuss Michelle Obama's forthcoming visit to Oxford.

Thought For The Week 3: Time

Cambridge Arts Show editor Tanjil Rashid bemoans the brevity and shallowness of the modern interview

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