Thursday 18th September 2025

Culture

Styling by the book: Oxford’s secret fashion rules

It often feels as if the so-called ‘Oxford bubble’ is full of binaries: commoners and scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate, town and gown. These dualities are neatly emblematised through the...

Cultural fashion at the Queen’s confluence dinner

Not often do I get to break out the Middle Eastern kaftan hanging idle...

Common threads: Historical fashion and its lessons for our time

When we think of historical fashion, images of towering wigs, tight-laced corsets, heavy brocades...

Food, fashion, and escapism in a cost of living crisis

Food costs have been front and centre in newsreels as of recent months, whether...

Heard it on the grapevine

Alex Linsey reveals the truth about wine tasting and what’s good for under a tenner

News Roundup: Week 6

The news team discusses sex, ducks and rocking the vote.

Summer Book Club

Chris and Rees take you on a literary adventure in anticipation of a summer full of fun...

Review: An Uncivil Partnership

a rather civil production

Colouring Outside the Lines

Rebecca Rosen talks to Shirley Hughes, OBE, the woman who illustrated your childhood

Uprooting the Family Tree

Helen Smith examines our irrational obsession with the exploits of our ancestors

New Roundup: Week 5

Antonia and Katie take a look at the week's top stories

Interview: Helen Fielding

Talking to Helen Fielding, the woman who defined a decade of chick-flicks

‘Put People First’ Protest March

Cherwell attended a political rally that called for major changes to the way we now live.

News Roundup: Week 4

Antonia and Marta bring you the news and look back at Eurovision

Album Review: Skepta’s Microphone Champion

Cherwell fails to be impressed by Skepta's new offering

For the Love of Film 10

Ben and Laurence bring us film news and a look at the quirky Coraline and the new Star Trek

iSPY

Sarah Ventress conducts reconnaissance on Britain's most elusive graduate employer

Viva L’Otra Vida

Antonia Burrows investigates the latest Oxford-based charitable venture, an unmissable festival in South Parks

Talking Schiff

Dave McLeod takes a trip with West Wing star Richard Schiff into the hearts and minds of mankind.

News Roundup: Week 3

Cherwell's weekly dose of news and a humorous look at the rest of the paper

Brasenose Arts Festival

Cherwell chats to the people behind BNC Arts Fest

Hacking in Parnassus

Poet Laureate or Professor of Poetry? Minoo Dinshaw engages in the great poetry debate

In Vogue

Charlie Alderwick talks to Alexandra Shulman, the woman who decides what you wear…

Etcetera: Brasenose Arts Festival – Poetry

Etcetera talk to Richard O'Brien and some of the poets who're featuring in Brasenose's arts festival during third week.

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