The Isis Magazine
The Isis is a student publication at the University of Oxford, where the magazine was established in 1892. Traditionally a rival to the student newspaper Cherwell, Isis was finally acquired by the latter's publishing house, Oxford Student Publications Limited, in the late 1990s. It now operates as a termly magazine and website, providing an outlet for features journalism, although for most of its life it appeared weekly. The two publications are named after the two rivers in Oxford, "Isis" being the local name for the River Thames.
This article is about the student publication at the University of Oxford. For the history of science journal published in Chicago, see Isis (journal). For the propaganda magazine published by ISIS, see Dabiq (magazine).Type
Termly magazine at the University of Oxford
Helen Edwards and Clara Hartley [1]
1892
Folly Bridge, Oxford
c. 4,500
Alumni[edit]
The Isis has been the springboard for careers in literature, the theatre and television, with specific influences in Private Eye and Westminster politics. Isis alumni include Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, Michael Foot, Jo Grimond, Sylvia Plath, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, playwright Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Charles Graves, Robert Robinson (the BBC broadcaster), Richard Ingrams (former editor of Private Eye), David Dimbleby (BBC Question Time), Paul Foot (former deputy editor of Private Eye), Alastair Macdonald (deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department for Trade and Industry), Derek Parfit (All Souls philosopher), Christopher Meakin (journalist, economist, banker}, Peter Gillman, Mary Kaldor (Professor at LSE), Sally Laird (writer, translator and editor),[5] Gyles Brandreth (MP and entertainer) and Terry Jones (actor). Then in the "only four issues a term" era: George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Jo Johnson and Ben Goldacre.[6]