Eleanor Ware, Author at The Oxford Blue

Photo of a statue outside the Sheldonian Theatre. The statue has a girl's eyes and fringed superimposed onto it, and is wearing a sash that reads "Class of 2025"

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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

Drama on and off the pitch: The 2025/26 Football League Championship

Eleanor Ware Apr 30, 2026 7 min read

Coventry City's home ground, pictured in late 2025.

Dhillon Lalji reports on the winners and losers in what has been yet another thrilling season in the Championship, the second tier of English football…

Risk Appetite: On Trying British Classics as an American

Eleanor Ware Apr 30, 2026 8 min read

Valerie Wu explores what it is like to try British food classics as an American in Oxford, and how one way of understanding a culture…

So Bad, It’s Good: John Cage’s 4’33”

Eleanor Ware Apr 30, 2026 4 min read

Music is ubiquitous in our lives. From the playlists we make for every imaginable activity to the constant drone of mundane pop at restaurants and…

New Media: Have We Evolved to Think Less Deeply?

Eleanor Ware Mar 23, 2026 6 min read

Image credit to Kristin Hardwick. Used under the Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ License via Wikimedia Commons When we think of evolution, our minds tend to spring…