The Oxford Magazine
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The Oxford Magazine is a review magazine and newspaper published in Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It was established in 1883 and published weekly during Oxford University terms.

Contributors included: J.R.R. Tolkien, whose character Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil is a supporting character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He appears in Tolkien's high fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, published in 1954 and 1955. In the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins and company meet Bombadil in the Old Forest...

, who later featured in The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

, first appeared in the magazine around 1933.
A joint poem by C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield titled "Abecedarium Philosophicum" was published on November 30, 1933.

It now functions "as a commentator on university affairs", that is, an independent forum where members of Congregation
Congregation (university)
A Congregation is a formal meeting of senior members of a university, especially in the United Kingdom.Examples include the Regent House in the University of Cambridge, and the House of Congregation and the Ancient House of Congregation in the University of Oxford.In recent times, very few...

 can debate academic policy. While it is distributed along with the Oxford University Gazette
Oxford University Gazette
The Oxford University Gazette is the publication of record for the University of Oxford in England, used for official announcements, etc. It is published weekly during term time....

, it often carries articles critical of the University's leadership.

It should not be confused with Oxford Magazinehttp://www.oxfordmagazine.com/ or In Oxford Magazinehttp://www.inoxfordmag.co.uk/, both commercial listings/shopping magazines covering the City of Oxford.
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