''The Oxonian Review'' is a

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produced by

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students at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Every fortnight during term time, an

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edition is published featuring

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s and

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s on current affairs and

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. It is the largest university-wide postgraduate-student publication at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

History

''The Oxonian Review'' was established in 2001 at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, as the ''Oxonian Review of Books'',About the ''Oxonian Review''
as a termly print magazine featuring essays and reviews of recently published work in

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, and the

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, written by

students of the University of Oxford. In November 2008, the publication carried out a large recruitment drive in order to expand beyond Balliol College and reach a wider audience. It relaunched in January 2009 as a web-based magazine, publishing fortnightly during term time, and annually in print. It was also renamed ''The'' ''Oxonian Review'' in 2009. The magazine also now organises a series of eventsEvents at the ''Oxonian Review''
in Oxford, including speaker dinners, music evenings,

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screenings, competitions, and writers' workshops.

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