What’s happening in College this week?

🎻 Tickets now on sale!

The Eglesfield Musical Society proudly presents Fiddler on the Roof, performed in the gardens of The Queen’s College 🌳✨

Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, joy, and tradition as Tevye wrestles with family, love, and change in the heart of Anatevka. Expect laughter, heartache, and iconic songs like If I Were A Rich Man, Matchmaker, and Sunrise, Sunset.

📅 21–24 May 2025
📍 The Queen’s College Gardens
🎟️ Recommended age: 12+
☔ Outdoor performance – dress for the weather!

Book now: ow.ly/bZJG50VSuPW
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🧭 What makes a great leader — and how can you spot a bad one?

Old Member and former Rhodes Scholar The Hon. John Tien Jr (PPE, 1987) has served in the military, the White House, and beyond — and he’s seen the best and worst of leadership up close.

💬 “Good leaders help others to develop and be the best version of themselves in order to support the broader mission. Bad leaders? They’re usually pretty easy to pick out — narcissistic, self-serving, and double-dealing…their motivation is very clearly not for the good of others.”

From being a trailblazer as the first Asian American Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security to leading soldiers in Iraq, John shares his candid insights on good leadership, how service shaped his career and the enduring impact of Queen’s.

🔗Read the full interview: ow.ly/UFVQ50VOiG5.

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📚 Congratulations to Mukahang Limbu (English & Modern Languages, 2019), winner of The Borough Press’ non-fiction open submission competition with his forthcoming memoir Egg-Fried Rice, to be published in 2027.

Selected from over 250 entries, The Borough Press said: "We are so excited to have found Mukahang Limbu’s writing. Egg-Fried Rice is a gorgeous coming-of-age memoir with such lyrical and evocative prose."

In a recent interview with us, Mukahang shared his insights into:

🖋️ Shifting from poetry to prose — “If poetry is a room, writing prose is like building a house.”
📖 Writing as catharsis — “A memoir forces you to take out the dirty plates you’ve shoved under the bed and give them a good wash.”
🌍 Representing the Nepali diaspora in Oxford — "In the underbelly of Oxford, there is an entire Nepali community that makes the ancient and limestoned world go around.”
✍️ Advice to writers — “Don’t think, just do. Time spent thinking is time not writing.”

Mukahang’s voice is bold, thoughtful, and refreshingly honest — we can’t wait to see what he writes next.

🔗 Read more about his writing process: ow.ly/OJuK50VOgpA

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Former bell-ringer’s inscription in the College's Bell Tower marking VE Day, 1945.

In the 1945 College Record, Provost Hodgkin wrote:

"My letter this year must begin by telling you how we in Oxford have given thanks and rejoiced for the great deliverance. On VE Day we joined with the others employed here, both by the College and by the Ministry of Home Security, in a short service in Chapel. In the evening the last barrel of ‘Chancellor,’ kept since 1939 for the occasion, was broached; wine was also served, and we drank the ancient College toasts.

We connected the words ‘In memoriam absentium’ with those of you who are still overseas, especially those who have formidable campaigning ahead of you before the Japanese war is won. I need scarcely add that we also had specially in mind the 60 Queensmen who have given their lives for our deliverance. "

📷 Klara Zhao (current bell-ringer)

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