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Author Archives: Madeleine Ridout

Madeleine enjoys writing about history and anthropology, but when she's not writing she's an avid tea drinker who enjoys a crossword every morning. She is a self-proclaimed bad poetry writer (although one claim to fame was being in the top 100 Foyle Young poets of the year) and a lover of the Scottish countryside.

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

Madeleine Ridout Dec 15, 2025 6 min read
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“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

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‘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…

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

Madeleine Ridout Dec 13, 2025 4 min read
Duke Humfrey's library

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,…

Outside OX1 Week 8: End of Term Special

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