childhood Archives - The Oxford Blue

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Blissfully Ignorant: Why Growing up Fast isn’t Always a Virtue

by Arun Lewis March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

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Les Cahiers d’Esther and the Problem of Writing Childhood

by Eve Coiley September 22, 2024September 22, 2024

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My Mother’s Past

by Thisuri Perera March 3, 2024March 23, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man II

by Chloe Smith March 1, 2024March 1, 2024

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Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man I

by Chloe Smith February 23, 2024March 21, 2024

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Musings of a Media Lover: ‘Scott Street’, Strangers, and Reconciling Old Friendships

by Millie Acton February 18, 2024February 18, 2024

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Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Scared of the Dark

by Alice Brooker February 7, 2024February 7, 2024

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Director Highlight: Richard Linklater

by Khadijah Ali January 21, 2024January 21, 2024

The Music That Makes Me

by Arani S Hazarika December 22, 2023December 22, 2023

Kin: A review of ‘helixed’ sisterhood

by Aleena Habbie November 16, 2023November 16, 2023

Breaking: New Pro-Palestine Encampment Established

Laura van HeijnsbergenMay 16, 20253 min read

Breaking: New Pro-Palestine Encampment Established

At around 7pm on Friday 16 May, following a march from Cowley which began at Manzil Way Gardens, Oxford Against Genocide have established a new…

Death of a Salesman at the Pilch: Reviewed

Hannah StewartMay 16, 20255 min read

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“Throughout the play, it becomes an evident and gutting realisation that, for the Salesman, ‘the only thing you’ve got in this world is what you…

Words of a Multiple: What is Justice?

Evelyn PatronusMay 16, 20256 min read

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Content Warning: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse. Note: Please note that throughout this article, I may switch between personal pronouns. This is on purpose, which will…

The Oxford Blue-Stocking: In Conversation with Olivia Hurton

Lucy PollockMay 16, 20255 min read

The Oxford Blue-Stocking: In Conversation with Olivia Hurton

For Olivia, the most important thing about Bluestocking is the nurturing of female thinkers in Oxford across different academic levels, colleges and departments, putting a…