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By Andrea Obholzer In The Common Reader (1925), Virginia Woolf wrote ‘The Peasants are the greatsanctuary of sanity […] when they disappear, there is no hope for the race.’ Whatdid Virginia Woolf know of common people? Apart from her stint teaching at MorleyCollege between 1905-1907 and her relationships with her servants, how manycommon people did […]
By Shelly Foreshaw Brookes One of the most widely used Arabic dictionaries today has an unsettling origin: it was commissioned under Hitler’s regime, to facilitate the accurate translation of Mein Kampf (1925) and to disseminate Nazi propaganda around the Arab world. Embedded in its history is an unsettling paradox—the foundational contributions of a brilliant Jewish […]
By Jessica Phillips I am not a punk. And if you’re at Oxford University, chances are, you aren’t either. This place is a Prime Minister machine, the epitome of ‘The Establishment’. So perhaps it is audacious for me to challenge the relationship between the Mother of Punk, Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022), and the clothes that she […]
By Céline Rémont-Ospina Born in 1472, Italian noblewoman Alfonsina Orsini (1472-1520) was raised in the royal court of Naples, one of the most vibrant cultural centres of the Renaissance. Her father, Count Roberto Orsini, was a close ally of Ferrante, King of Naples. Following her father’s premature death, the young Alfonsina was brought up by […]
By Cosima Yeo I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in the story.From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful futurebeckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home andchildren, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a […]
