Delegates from the indigenous Ecuadorian Shuar people called for the repatriation of shrunken heads stored at the Pitt Rivers Museum during their visit to the UK earlier this month. The Museum houses Oxford University’s historical and archaeological collection.
The visit lasted from 5th to 12th October. It was organized by Proyecto Tsantsa, a project started in 2017 by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Ecuador’s Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and several Shuar groups, like Federación Interprovincial de Centros Shuar. The project...
Walking down Broad Street can sometimes resemble a school register. It would, admittedly, be a strange class that comprised Thomas Bodley, the Weston family, the first Earl of Clarendon, and Gilbert Sheldon. But Oxford’s...
Hogwarts students run up the Christ Church stairs. Saltburn’s stars roll cigarettes on a Brasenose College quad. And My Oxford Year’s Anna and Jamie wander up to Duke Humphrey’s Library.
Walking through Oxford, you’d be...
Travelling cross-country has never been easy, but UK transport is, predictably, delayed in its arrival to the 21st century. Long journey times and sky-high train fares make travelling difficult, frustrating, and expensive.
With friends spread...
Four Oxford students sat down to share how they feel about the state of the UK. From pensions to the NHS and Brexit, their answers were frank, frustrated, and sometimes surprisingly hopeful about how Britain could change direction.
Oxford’s political societies cultivated generations of MPs and PMs. In an era of rising populism, a tour of their drinking events finds a drifting elite with few ideas.
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Oliver never intended to become a full-time content creator. He originally created his TikTok page to market his queer fashion brand, launched in the year preceding his master’s degree at Oxford. “I wanted to start an eco-friendly queer fashion brand because I had noticed that there weren't really any specifically queer fashion brands out there. It was all people...
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Nothing makes me more excited about a theatre production than hearing a director talk passionately and intelligently about their chosen text. In a conversation with Cherwell, director Joshua Robey’s understanding of Uncle Vanya and his belief both in his team and vision for the show shone through.
First produced in...
“Meeting up with a partner so soon after a breakup is an awkward time - and she’s dying.”
Your Funeral is the debut play of new company Pharaoh Productions. It takes inspiration solely from the song ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’ by Neutral Milk Hotel. The play is a...
“NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY.” It is this (somewhat incomplete) motto of the Post Office setting that captures in a sentence the irreverent humour of this charming version of Going Postal, this year’s Oriel Garden Play.Going Postal is a...
Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own is probably the most important 20th century piece of writing concerning women’s place in literature and education. It illustrates the power of the patriarchy in schooling through a simple, but very familiar, allegory of grass and gravel.
It was thus that...
When I was having lunch with a friend, I ordered my usual, a double espresso, and – horror of horrors – it was decaf.
“Can I bully you a little bit?”
“For?”
“Drinking a decaf double espresso. People usually drink it for a hit of energy, you know? What’s the point?”
The reasoning,...
I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory.
The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes rising like ancient lungs out of the water. The air was still, but the lake moved, breathing slowly. It’s not the sea in name, but...
We all know the type, or at least the meme. The tote-bag sporting, wired-headphone wearing, matcha latte drinking, so-called ‘performative’ men flooding our social media feeds, and even threatening to infiltrate our social circles. Such men are defined by the careful curation of clothes, taste, and aesthetic to attract...