Friday 5th June 2026

Lifestyle

It takes a village, but no one wants to be a villager

Oxford is full of busy people. It can seem at times like you are fighting for space in between someone’s various committee obligations, tutorials, and frantic essay crises.

Measuring out life with coffee spoons: Inside the Oxford death café

“Jaffa cake?” These are the first words I hear upon stepping into Oxford’s Death...

An archaeological future: Distorted legacies

The ache to remember and be remembered is one of the most important things that makes humankind human, and this hasn’t changed across the sweeping expanse of time.

A mini-guide to the Italian restaurants of Oxford

The Cherwell Lifestyle team decided to combine  our forces and put together a mini-guide to the Italian restaurants to suit all of your needs. 

Blind Date: The only way to cope with these inadequacies was to drink more”

Priya Khaira-Hanks and Jamie Horton swap gossip and guilty pleasures over a drink at Turf Tavern

My town and my gown: from the Dreaming Spires to semi-rural obscurity

Maxim Parr-Reid laments the parochial mediocrity of a vacation spent in rural Buckinghamshire.

The guilt of gaming at Oxford

Charles Britton finds that university life has taken its toll on an all-consuming hobby

Highway to hell

Susannah Goldsbrough reveals how she's driven herself around the bend

My town and my gown: between dreaming spires and magic roundabouts

Ellie Jerome finds that more divides Oxford and Swindon than a stretch of the A420

My town and my gown: “the world has slowed down around me”

Josh Travers resigns himself to the monotony of a Vac spent in Stockport

‘Pretworking’: A Spotter’s Guide

Aidan Balfe on the modus operandi of student hacks, and his attempt to introduce a new term to the Oxford idiolect

My town and my gown: A Tale of (cycling, in) Two Cities

Rosa Thomas' reflections on cycling in London — a vicious cycle with the wheels of misfortune

Friendship, Feminism and Fun(damental Rights)

India Parker talks to Jess Bollands, the President of the Oxford Belles, about the enormous success of their latest music video

My town and my gown: between Slough and Oxford

Jack Allsopp finds some surprising connections between his two homes from home

Letter from abroad: Salamanca

Claire Leibovich discusses trying to shake off Oxford pressures while in Spain

Cocktail of the week: rainbow sangria

Sam Purnell shares a cocktail reminiscent of sunny Spain

Recipe: Mediterranean baked sweet potatoes

Sam Purnell shares one of his favourite home-cooked recipes

Review: The Eagle and Child

Emily Beswick follows in the footsteps of her literary idols

Life Divided: Cherwell

Nicola Dwornik and Emma Leech express their love-hate relationship with Cherwell

Food diary: the bagel shops of Beijing

Esmé Curtis recalls swapping bagels for baozi when settling into her new home

Blind Date: Emma and Nicky

Life co-editors Emma and Nicky get a taste of the Balliol Blue and their own medicine

A bloody nightmare

Heather Cant wishes for a happier period

Blind Date: Akshay and Lily

Akshay and Lily chat about their love of electronic music over an apparently mesmerising plate of macaroni

A student’s guide to cheap wine

Emily Beswick finds the best bottles for under a fiver

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