Tag: family

Oxford graduate Archie Johnston and his family have attempted to break the Guinness World Record for “fastest half marathon by a mother and three children” at the Worcester Half Marathon.

Like Harry Potter under the stairs, I was ‘the one who lived’. A rainbow baby (a baby born after loss), wrapped in nappies and...

There’s something quite liminal about being a student. One minute you’re running around a city feeling like a Grown Up, and then suddenly it’s...

Ava Doherty reflects on university friendships – and laments how it can often feel like a loveless environment

In many of these residents, I also saw glimpses of my Nan, realising she wasn’t alone in her inner conflicts between feeling cared for and feeling controlled.

After watching a Tiktok that said we have already spent the majority of the time we get to ever have with our siblings by...

"You could tell no one, And it would come anyway."

Under Oxford’s dreaming spires and overlooking Magpie Lane’s centuries-old cobbles is a simple modern kitchen. I like to think of it as my friends’...

"Whether fasting or feasting, the togetherness is what’s important."

'I can feel myself slowly metamorphose into a boy who cried “divorce!”'

It has long been said that breakfast constitutes one of the most important meals of the day. Really, there is nothing more refreshing than...

I never really thought to ask about my family. I knew that some of us came over from Russia, Ukraine, Poland – but I...

The ostracism I felt had forced me to choose between my identity and the chance to have friends.

I sat in my A-level History lessons, staring at images of prisoners in Nazi extermination camps, alongside the same boys who had grown up in that school and probably participated in its “humorous” and “edgy” Nazi fetishism, trying to make it all fit together. I was very quiet, focusing. Still I couldn’t.