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A note in your Pidge: Cambridge’s new dating app
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (635+ words) Antara Rao speaks to the founders of Cambridge’s first dating and social app, Pidge Sunday September 13 2026, 10:17pm Pidge is a Cambridge-only dating and social app founded by third-years Chloe Huang of Jesus College and Thomas Thomson of Christ’s College. Users see…...
A battle of the exhibitions
12+ hour, 35+ min ago (146+ words) Millie Gordon compares her experiences of two contrasting fashion exhibitions Sunday September 13 2026, 8:09pm A resplendent display of French Renaissance and Baroque architecture, the Bowes Museum has long drawn visitors from all over the world to admire the 1770s Silver Swan. Since March…...
What on Earth does one watch on their flight home?
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (145+ words) Scarlett Akiwumi discusses the surprisingly difficult art of choosing a film for the return journey from Cambridge Thursday September 10 2026, 4:00am “I was finally given the opportunity to catch up on the films I had not had the free time to watch,…...
Widening access to Classics: an academic rollercoaster
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (192+ words) Eleanor Baldwin reflects on the highs, lows and effectiveness of the 4-year Classics course Wednesday September 9 2026, 10:12pm Widening access has meant rethinking traditional routes into the subject at university. Initially, the introduction of an additional Intensive Greek pathway at Cambridge marked…...
A voyage to experience poetry
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (153+ words) Aisling Rogers recounts her travels to Seamus Heaney’s birthplace Tuesday September 8 2026, 4:08pm ‘And some time,’ begins Seamus Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, ‘make the time to drive out West…’ Despite planning to use my travel grant for a sunsoaked visit to Italy to experience…...
“I am young, I am a woman, and I am from Wales”
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (1025+ words) In conversation with Olivia Goodman, Baroness Carmen Smith of Llanfaes reflects on the power of a new generation of political voices and what it means to represent Wales at the heart of British politics Sunday September 6 2026 That ease sits interestingly…...
Confessions of a serial hobbyist
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (359+ words) Adaeze Onwuelo laments her inability to stick with one schtick Sunday September 6 2026, 10:18pm I have a dreadful problem: I’m addicted to trying out new societies. Despite entering my third year at Cambridge, I’m still hooked by the irresistible desire to try…...
News In Brief: frightening findings, firewomen, and free festivals
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (44+ words) A light-hearted round up of this week’s stories, from a musical theatre performance to developments in astronomy Sunday September 6 2026, 4:38pm A fiery musical comes to Cambridge An ‘Out of the Ordinary’ festival News In Brief: Bombs, BBC dramas, and borrowed plates...
The death of the artsy ‘third space’? | Varsity
1+ week, 5+ day ago (89+ words) Freya Roodhouse offers Cambridge’s museums as a solution to the dying third space Tuesday September 1 2026, 1:07pm “We must expand our view to those other contenders that make a bid for artistic attention” “We should seize the third spaces freely provided for…...
News In Brief: Bombs, BBC dramas, and borrowed plates
1+ week, 6+ day ago (552+ words) Varsity Online A First World War artillery shell was discovered in the River Cam on Thursday (27/08). Treasure hunter Harvinii Richards, who discovered the explosive, said he initially mistook it for a spray can. Richards said “I realised it was an…...