Under his editorship Cherwell also published a backless photo of Gully Wells, considered very daring for the time. In 1970 then-editor Peter Stothard published a current Oxford theatre poster featuring a naked female, possibly a first for a British newspaper. In 1946 Cherwell was briefly banned by the university for distributing a survey on the sex lives of undergraduates, and in 1954 ran a series of pin-up photographs entitled "Girls of the Year". The newspaper's focus broadened over the coming decades until January 1953, when the owners of the paper decided to turn it into a university newspaper. Undergraduate contributors included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, L. Throughout the 1920s Cherwell had a strong literary focus, and a policy of not editing literary contributions. Ĭherwell was the only newspaper printed in Britain during the UK General Strike of 1926, other than the British Gazette and the British Worker, during which time it was produced at the offices of the Daily Mail in London.
The first editorial gives the newspaper's purpose as being "to exclude all outside influence and interference from our University. Įarly editions combine this seriousness with whimsy and parochialism. We did not mind shocking and we often did." The publication was independent of the University of Oxford and it was entirely financed, staffed, and owned by students. We were anti-convention, anti-Pre War values, pro-feminist. Edinger recalls the early newspaper having a radical voice: "We were feeling for a new Oxford …. Receiving no university funding, the newspaper is one of the oldest student publications in the UK.Ĭherwell was conceived by two Balliol College students, Cecil Binney and George Adolphus Edinger, on a ferry from Dover to Ostend during the summer vacation of 1920 while the students were travelling to Vienna to do relief work for the Save the Children charity.
Founded in 1920 and named after a local river, Cherwell is a subsidiary of independent student publishing house Oxford Student Publications Ltd. Cherwell is a weekly student newspaper published entirely by students of Oxford University.
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