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Image description: bikes outside the Radcam Lady Margaret Hall has donated over 90 bikes as part of Active Oxfordshire’s contribution to the #bikesforkeyworkers initiative. The college explains in an email to students “The goal here is to provide free bikes to NHS and Social Care staff who cannot use public transport during the lockdown or […]
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Image description: Alan Rusbridger at the international journalism festival in 2014. Alan Rusbridger, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and former editor of the Guardian, is among the 20 people chosen to feature in Facebook’s oversight committee. Once this initiative has been launched over summer, the final decision on what should be removed and what should […]
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Image Description: travellers walking in an airport Xin-Ci Lum, MSc Migration Studies, Lady Margaret Hall As I write this, I’m back in Singapore having just finished a 14-day quarantine in a hotel apart from my family. Since 25th March, this has been compulsory for all UK arrivals. The reason is simple. In comparison to other […]
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Lady Margaret Hall students have been reprimanded recently via an email regarding students walking around in their pyjamas and underwear. LMH accommodation addressed the fact that they wanted LMH students to have ‘a safe and comfortable environment…with rules about behaviour to be kept to a minimum’, but they also express their wish for ‘respect and […]
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The Society of Homeopaths held their annual conference at Lady Margaret Hall over the vacation. This follows a 2017 controversy in which LMH was criticised by The Good Thinking Society for “lending credibility” to the “pseudo scientific event”. At the time LMH defended its decision to host the group by calling it “a purely commercial […]
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Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) has introduced a new initiative that will allow some students to pay for a Ball ticket in monthly instalments, instead of up front upon purchase. JCR president Josh Tulloch announced the plan in an email to the LMH community on Friday 11th January. According to Tulloch’s email, 15 students were chosen […]
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The Lady Margaret Hall JCR voted to donate £100 to the Oxford Anti-Fascist Network in its 3rd Week meeting. The money will be split between anti-fascist stickers and a banner to be used on marches such as the protest against the Union’s talk with Alice Weidel on November 7th. The motion comes following claims that […]
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Image Credit: Herbi1922-Description-LMH In its 3rd week meeting on Sunday the LMH JCR debated whether or not to voice its dissent to the potential hosting of the conservative Christian organisation Christian Concern. The debate was consultative and the governing body will make its final decision in 4th week but the JCR voted to oppose Christian […]
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Following a JCR meeting held last Sunday, LMH have this week passed a motion to declare war on Sweden. A general hatred of Sweden, and the belief that Sweden was responsible for the cancellation of bops in college this year, motivated the vote. “Sweden is central to the current corruption within the JCR executive,” the […]
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On Sunday of 3rd Week the Lady Margaret Hall JCR voted on the provision of £8.95 towards the purchase of a Catalonian flag, approving the motion 26 votes to 18 with 12 abstentions. The vote was put to the LMH JCR following the approval of a motion two weeks earlier which provided £100 to the […]
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Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate political activist, is to start studying at Oxford in 2017. She met her offer to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Lady Margaret Hall, starting in October. She tweeted that she was “So excited to go to Oxford!!” on the morning of August 17th, as thousands of […]
Continue ReadingLady Margaret Hall has come under fire from scientific groups for agreeing to host a conference for homeopathy over the Easter Vac. Michael Marshall, Project Director of The Good Thinking Society, attacked the college’s decision to host the conference. Speaking to The Independent, he said “It’s pretty clear the Society of Homeopaths is seeking venues […]
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Adapted from P. G. Wodehouse’s The Code of The Woosters, Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is the perfectly frivolous antidote to long November nights and the melancholic morale left in fifth week’s wake. Actors who refuse to take themselves too seriously, a script which turns a phrase on a sixpence and playfully draws it […]
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Lady Margaret Hall JCR has been forced to issue an apology after numerous students dressed in “racist” and “offensive” costumes at an Arabian Nights themed bop on Saturday evening.
Continue ReadingOn the 18th, 19th and 20th of July, Phoenix Picturehouse provided residents of Oxford with a weekend of fantastic film in a beautiful setting, by screening Labyrinth, Grease and Casablanca in the grounds of Lady Margaret Hall. One attendee told The Oxford Student, “Watching Casablanca while lying on the grass outside was definitely an […]
Continue ReadingThe presence of women at university is taken so much for granted today that it’s astonishing to consider how, little more than a hundred years ago, Cambridge University was voting on whether to allow women to graduate with degrees. This vote is the fulcrum of Blue Stockings – the campaign for women’s right to […]
Continue ReadingThe Principal of Lady Margaret Hall has announced that she will step down in 2015. Frances Lannon, who has been in office since 2002, said holding the position “has been a great privilege”. “I look forward to continuing to work with Fellows, staff, alumni, friends, and students for the last phase of my Principalship,” she […]
Continue ReadingLMH students were left disappointed this week after Princess Anne’s office announced she would no longer be attending a dinner at the college. She was due to go to the special formal after presenting a prize run by the Ockenden Trust on February 18th. An email from Rebecca Ward, LMH’s Alumni Relations Officer, described the […]
Continue ReadingPrincess Anne will visit LMH next Tuesday to attend formal hall and present a prize for refugee projects. The Princess will present the second annual Ockenden International Prize, and will give $75,000 to an existing organisation that helps refugees and displaced people around the world. Ockenden’s founder Joyce Pearce attended LMH in the 1930s. The […]
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