The 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, playwright Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, Robert Robinson (the BBC broadcaster), Richard Ingrams (Ed, Private Eye), David Dimbleby (BBC 'Question Time'), Paul Poot (Dep. Ed. Private Eye), Alastair Macdonald (Dep. Perm. Sec. at DTI), Derek Parfit (All Souls' philosopher) Christopher Meakin (double columnist on both "Isis" and "Cherwell"; Fleet Street etc.), Mike Harloe (vice-chancellor, Salford Univ), Mary Kaldor (Prof at LSE), Gyles Brandreth (MP and entertainer) and Terry Jones (Python). Then in the 'only four issues a term' era > George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Jo Johnson and Ben Goldacre. Exceptionally, Paul Foot and Gyles Brandreth were also presidents of the Oxford Union. The current editors of the Trinity term 2017 edition are Lily Begg and Tj Jordan.
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