Isis (magazine)
The cover of the Trinity 2012 issue of The ISIS.
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| Type | Termly magazine at Oxford University |
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| Owner(s) | Oxford Student Publications Limited |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 7 St Aldate's, Oxford |
| Circulation | c. 15,000 |
| Website | isismagazine.org.uk |
The Isis Magazine is a student publication at the University of Oxford. The magazine was established at the university in 1892. Traditionally a rival to the student newspaper Cherwell, it 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.
Isis magazine has been the springboard for careers in literature, the theatre and television, with its 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, Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Robert Robinson (the BBC broadcaster), Richard Ingrams, David Dimbleby, Gyles Brandreth, Terry Jones, George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Jo Johnson and Ben Goldacre. The current editors are Rosie Collier and Samuel Dunnett.
The ISIS was founded by Mostyn Turtle Piggott, the first of the student editors, in April 1892. His first editorial is quoted below:
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