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Megan is Video Editor, but she likes writing anything that she can relate back to her history degree and pretend it's 'revision'. Outside of academics, she plays violin with the Hertford College Music Society, is secretary for the Oxford University Historical Re-enactment Society, and enjoys walking her dogs who are in fact the cutest in the world (unofficial award).

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“Oxford’s theatre scene has in the past week followed a larger trend in culture, as smoking has made somewhat of a comeback on the silver…

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“Is it inescapable that there will come a point in the term where we face burnout and exhaustion? Or do we simply feel it because…

Borders and Belonging:  The Obsession With The “Oxford Accent”

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“Linguistic diversity is beautiful and should be celebrated in all professional and academic spaces. We all wish to live in a society and study at…

Should we really be turning Trump into a meme?

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Image credit by Gage Skidmore. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 International License via Wikimedia Commons The meme account Saint Hoax describes “humour…

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