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Still Life: a Review

by Isabella Bridgman November 1, 2023November 8, 2023

Cathleen Ni Houlihan – a Review

by Maisie Burgess October 27, 2023November 12, 2023

Review: Happier Year Productions’ Maurice

by Elspeth Knight October 21, 2022October 21, 2022

Packing a punch : Sockpuppet Review

by Megan Kavanagh June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

Culture, Fashion, Student Drama, Theatre

Fashion of the Georgian Era – Interviewing the Sweeney Todd cast and crew

by Amy Ellis Winter March 9, 2022July 22, 2024

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Review

by Erin Broadhurst February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

Review: ‘Ocean Madness’

by Erin Broadhurst November 27, 2021November 27, 2021

Review: ‘Persephone’ – A valiant effort at reinterpreting a classical tale

by Katharine Spurrier November 14, 2021November 14, 2021

Review: ‘Murder in Argos’

by India Gray November 12, 2021November 13, 2021

The Duke and I: the problems of the original Bridgerton novel

by Niamh Langton February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Alicia Taylor Dec 4, 2025 9 min read

An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Sophie Harrison Dec 4, 2025 5 min read

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563), public domain

According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Orla Case Dec 3, 2025 6 min read

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…

Having a bath: it’s time to come clean

Matthew Donnelly Dec 3, 2025 4 min read

Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Embedded in British culture is a conspiracy of silence around what must be domestic life’s most overrated activity. Mention baths in polite company and faces…