Eleanor Ware, Author at The Oxford Blue

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The Ten-Minute Night Out

by Eleanor Ware March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

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Privately educated and publicly obnoxious

by Eleanor Ware February 25, 2025February 26, 2025

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How Oxford’s Park Run Made Me Insufferable

by Eleanor Ware February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

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My pretentious friends: Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity

by Eleanor Ware January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

COP30: Behind the Scenes

Eleanor Ware Jan 20, 2026 18 min read

Image taken by Merna Elboghdady, used with her consent in the article. Shows the Global Youth Climate Training team at COP30.

Elana Roberts explores the importance, impact and limitations of COP30, which took place in Brazil. She first traces the historic significance of COPs before interviewing…

In defence of the assisted dying bill

Eleanor Ware Jan 20, 2026 4 min read

The House of Lords by William Morrison Wyllie (1820–1895), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons My grandmother died in 2020. At the end of her life,…

The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Eleanor Ware Dec 15, 2025 6 min read

Dr. Felix Tennie stands outside the Radcliffe Camera after our interview.

“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

Eleanor Ware Dec 15, 2025 3 min read

‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…