Tag: oxford

For some authors, the Bodleian Libraries have not always a safe haven for their work. Although marginalised texts are no longer demarcated with the phi symbol on their spines, with many having re-entered the undergraduate canon, Sophie Price discusses the valuable lessons we can learn from the Bodleian blacklist which remain pertinent today.

The current position of involving animal testing in research, but not teaching, is best

In Thursday night’s debate, the Oxford Union voted in favour of the motion “This house believes there is no moral difference between American and...

Oxford city council has agreed a new budget which will see the construction of over 1,500 council homes, two new community centres, and council...

A global study recently conducted by the University of Oxford and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has shown that most people are in...

A private collection containing thousands of letters, photographs, books, and illustrations by the author Lewis Carroll has been donated to Christ Church by an...

My ticket to see Julie resembled an invite to a birthday party, promising a live DJ and that I would be greeted by ‘partygoers’...

St Hugh’s College has announced that Michele Acton, the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), has been elected its new principal....

Since I arrived at Oxford, alcohol has been woven into the fabric of my university experience. Drinking isn’t just expected – it’s encouraged, celebrated, and deeply embedded in student culture. Nights out, pub trips, drinking societies, formals: Oxford demands drinking, and I’ve obliged, over and over again.

In the dead of night, five figures emerge from the darkness. Blazers over their shoulders and hands on their hips, they start to sashay...

A new study at Oxford University Hospitals is investigating at-home diabetes tests which could play a key role in screening type-1 diabetes. The new...

Adam Leslie has always wandered among stories – daydreaming them, curating them, and now crafting his own. The Lincolnshire-born author, screenwriter, and Blackwell’s employee...

The University of Oxford, with its ancient colleges and lofty spires, has a reputation of intellectual prestige on the one hand and eccentricity on the other. Across the river Cherwell, its newer neighbour is a modern, dynamic, and sprightly alternative full of industrious opportunities. Yet, it is inevitably still a place where “I go to Oxford,” if left unspecified, tends to be followed by ‘no, not that one’. 

Something I miss about home is the sea. There’s a comfort in the fact it’s always there and never seems to change. When you...