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Author Archives: Alannah Burdess

Alannah Burdess (she/her) is Junior Interviews Editor at The Oxford Blue. She is in her second year, studying Classics at Trinity College and is greatly involved in her college community, running the debating society to the JCR instagram. When not writing for The Blue, Alannah can be found coxing on the Isis or wandering around the Ashmolean.

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I’m A Female Classicist, Get Me Out Of Here!: Why Classicists Deserve More Credit

by Alannah Burdess August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
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Lights Out and Away We Go – Formula 1 is Back

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The importance of a black education

by Alannah Burdess June 10, 2020June 10, 2020
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Review: Jane Eyre – The National Theatre At Home

by Alannah Burdess April 11, 2020July 18, 2021
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Review: Cyrano De Bergerac at The Playhouse – The Man With The Nose And Highbrow Prose

by Alannah Burdess January 28, 2020August 3, 2024

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That person, no matter what they do in the present, will always be defined by what they did. In the country where I was born,…

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