Desso Hall was packed on Saturday morning with waves of passionate and excited fans as Varsity Badminton kicked off the weekend in style. A motivated and energetic Men’s first team poured their heart and soul into their contests but were matched by an equally skilful and confident Coventry side who...
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Do you remember when Instagram first launched in 2010? I don’t. Yet the little photo sharing app grew to attract 10 million users by the end of its first year and is still on the rise. Reaching almost one billion active users in the summer of 2018, its increased accessibility...
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In 2002, the depiction of comic books in cinema changed with the release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. Where the likes of its contemporaries X-Men and Blade sought to entrench themselves in the adolescent aesthetics of late-90s action films so much that they barely resembled their source material, Spider-Man was as...
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Warwick's Dr Mike Tildesley has co-written and produced 'The Bagley Boys', a TV pilot set in the First World War and a production which has several links to the University of Warwick. Sam Savelli interviews him for the Boar TV
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As the Warwick University Women’s Badminton 1st team walked into Desso Hall early on Saturday morning, all players exuded an aura of calm. The same cannot be said of the supporters from Coventry Uni who had fashioned loud clapping implements from empty shuttlecock containers. Unbeknownst to all in attendance, the...
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Georgia Simcox reports on the research which suggests that bees can count, add and subtract numbers.
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Graphic novels are to literature what hip-hop is to music and abstractionism is to art: they all attract snobbery to the extent that they are precariously contained within their ‘umbrella’ discipline. With the quantity of pictures typically outnumbering the word count, it is unsurprising that the literary status of graphic...
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LGBT+ representation has skyrocketed over the last few years. More and more films and plays are featuring prominent LGBT+ characters and storylines, which is a trend I am all in favour of. However, a new conversation has emerged recently from the coils of discourse, surrounding the important question about who is playing those...
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After a long and hot summer break, coming back to university is daunting on many levels. After months of potential carefree flings, crushes and relationships, it is hard to gauge the changes that may come when returning to university. From the impending workload that comes with the winter term or...
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Against tough opposition, Warwick’s Women’s Futsal team fought hard to secure a well-deserved draw of 1-1 on Friday afternoon. Although the match kicked off with a lot of route one attempts on both sides, it gradually gained momentum as Warwick took the upper hand, played out from the back and...
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This Varsity weekend, Warwick Fencing took on the challenge of competing against Coventry University and went in with high hopes and a lot of confidence. Although in the beginning there was a slow start due to some technical difficulties with the box and wires that indicate who has won the...
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For the first time in over three years, our Women’s Lacrosse team had the chance to defend Warwick’s reigning title of 28 years in a 60 minute showdown against Coventry. Cov 1s against our players made up of 2s, 3s and the Development girls saw a final result of 12-9...
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Warwick Men’s Cricket team edged to victory in a thrilling matchup against their Coventry counterparts. Something seemed rather perverse, spending a sunny Saturday afternoon watching a game of indoor cricket. Courtesy of the season if not the weather, this was to be an adapted game of cricket – six-man teams...
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