Icon of the Week: ‘The History Gossip’, Katie Kennedy
Katie Kennedy, better known as The History Gossip, has a more impressive resume than the craziest ‘finance bro’ you know. She is a proud Geordie, a former BBC apprentice, a Durham alumna, a TikTok content creator with over 500,00 followers, a published author, and a current master’s stu
Icon of the Week – President of Wolfson College and Former Ambassador to Japan
Stupidly, I am sat facing away from the private lake and stretch of river that explains why Wolfson College are so much better than us at rowing (I go to Oriel, sorry). Sir Tim Hitchens, KCVO, CMG is sat opposite me with quite a fancy coffee. I was offered one but have […
Icon of the Week: Balliol Blue
(They say journalism isn’t a lucrative industry, but it got me a rare Blue out of a pint glass.) It’s been a good year for the Balliol Blue. The drink, which is in fact blue and found in Balliol, is made of one shot of blue curacao, one of peach schnapps, and two […]
Icon of the Week: Bighandsandallgristly
It’s never entirely clear whether the members of Bighandsandallgristly are giving a straight answer. Comprised of Helena Emmett (violin, mostly), Cordelia Wilson (keys, mainly), and Ben Scott-Warren (guitar, generally), it’s at least apprehensible that this is a new-ish three-piece band o
Icon of The Week: Will Shackleton
For the past week, every time I’ve mentioned that I’m writing my Icon of the Week about Will Shackleton, I’ve received one of two responses: “Oh, I love Will Shackleton!” or “Who is Will Shackleton?” With those mixed reactions in mind, I sat down with Will determined to answer t
Icon of the Week: Footprint Tours
As all Christ Church students, or anyone who has braved Cornmarket street at lunchtime will tell you, Oxford is a veritable tourist haven. Benjamin Franklin made the claim that nothing was certain in life apart from death and taxes. He was wrong. Weekend college brunch, a disastrously alcohol
Icon of the Week: Tudor Pret
The Oxonian’s life is a tumultuous one. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of society meetings, sports, and social events that we all spend our days frittering to and from. If we’re lucky, we might manage to spend the occasional hour or two actually doing our degrees. I
Icon of the Week: The ‘Offisis’
In the spirit of the Offisis (The Isis Office), we tried to write this collaboratively. Joseph: “The fridge stinks, there’s a hole in the floor, and Harry has decided, as we write this, that the couch also stinks.” Harry: “The fridge reeks, the floor’s broken, the ca
Icon of the Week: In defence of ‘Catz’
Yes, I know. Hear me out. I’m being defensive, but my time at Catz has made it almost instinctual; it is such a point of such contention in the wider Oxford community – it sticks out like a sore thumb among the warm sandstone-yellow buildings and towering spires of Oxford. A quick