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The Bluebell

The Hiding Tree

by Dami Adedoyin-Adeniyi June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

Culture

So Bad, it’s Good: Twilight, ACOTAR and the eternal girlhood of romantasy

by Jade Glendinning June 2, 2025June 13, 2025

The Bluebell

The Queer Child

by Q Le May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

image of a white bookcase filled with colourful books

Culture

Help! I Think I’m a Reading Snob.

by Erin Bridgewater May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

A Greek statue of a male head and torso with no arms.

The Bluebell

Antinous of Delphi

by Charlie Bowden May 7, 2025May 14, 2025

The Bluebell

We Dare You

by Aird May 4, 2025May 7, 2025

The photo is taken from a college quadrangle at sunset. It shows the top of College buildings in shadow. Behind them is a pink and blue sunset.

Columns

Musings of a Media Lover: ‘In At The Deep End’ by Kate Davies and Subtly Abusive Relationships

by Millie Acton January 30, 2025May 27, 2025

A messy kitchen. To the left is a stove with applicances on it. To the right is an open door leading into another room.

Lifestyle

Kitchen: Food as a Love Language

by Nina Naidu June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

Picture shows array of matchboxes, each painted as a different book cover.

Identity

A Room of Our Own: Cut From the Same Cloth

by Nina Naidu February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

An illustration of a woman in a boat, floating on some water pouring out of a glass.

Culture

Nina is Not OK (and nor am I)

by Nina Naidu January 27, 2024May 12, 2024

Iago: Working Class Villain?

Ebony-Coco De LaraJun 20, 202510 min read

“This piece is an expression of my distaste for Coleridge’s ‘motiveless malignity’. It is a rebellion against the usual ideas thrown at English students when…

Inadequacy

Nithusha SathyendranJun 19, 20253 min read

Focus Photo of Crumpled Yellow Paper Near Trash Can

January — a month that often has been disregarded as boring, was something that once offered me solace. When I was younger, the thought of…

From influencer to singer-songwriter: is the world really Addison Rae’s oyster?

Lucas GoddardJun 19, 20255 min read

“It seems that when a social media personality tries to add ‘musician’ to their CV, they commit a professional and social transgression.” Lucas Goddard discusses…

Julianna Glasse, CEO of ‘This is What Happens When Women Read’ Funds New Scholarship

Alina AhsanJun 18, 20256 min read

Julianna Glasse is a singer-songwriter, inspirational speaker, podcast host, author, founder, and CEO of the non-profit – This is What Happens When Women Read. Glasse…