With a gruelling twenty-one miles of cold, choppy sea, the English Channel has challenged even the best long-distance swimmers. Before 1926, no female swimmer had successfully made the trip, until 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle made history with a record-breaking swim. This summer, Bryony Rowe will mark the centenary of Ederle’s monumental achievement with an attempt of her own. 


“It feels daunting knowing you can’t get out. A weirdly claustrophobic feeling.” 


Rowe recalls a particularly cold...

Hackney has become a new official site for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the largest early-childhood book gifting programme in the world. Founded by American singer-songwriter and actress Parton, 80, in 1995, the initiative provides young children with books delivered straight to their door every month. The programme became available to children up to the age of five living in Hackney, north east London, on World Book Day, and is completely free to join. The scheme has reached countries al...

The National Archive’s ‘Love Letters’ exhibit has been an unparalleled success, drawing its highest ever visitor count in a single day.  


On Valentine’s Day, the free exhibition, located in Kew, Richmond, drew 759 people to the National Archives, a stark increase from the rolling weekly average of 158 visitors per day. 


Brought to life by a team of talented curators, the exhibit documents the intimate declarations of love from a range of unknown scribes, royalty and literary icons includin...

A double page spread with an article I wrote for Bristol 24/7's 2025 student guide. The piece is aimed at students in Bristol. With nightlife being such a large part of university culture, this piece considers how to best to navigate a night out in Bristol whilst drawing on the 6 Bristol rules in place to enable safety in the city after dark.

Do you feel that the grades you achieve are reflective of the effort you put in? Or, do you find it impossible to predict the outcome of an assignment? This piece looks into the balance of effort and success in university academics

Should universities be allowed to abruptly change assessment structure with no warning? This piece will consider the upsides and downsides of a switch back to traditional in-person exams for English students.