Bowland Lady
The Bowland Lady
The Bowland Lady is our college magazine, which keeps you up-to-date with all the current news, sports results, features and of course a bit of fun. We release a certain number of editions each term, so keep your eyes peeled and get ready to grab your copy of the best magazine in the university. The magazine got a complete overhaul this year, with an amazing new design. Bowland is a very active college and participation in writing for the magazine has been fantastic this year.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed! However, we’re always looking for new people to get involved. If there is something you would like to write or suggest then e-mail the Publicity Team at bowland_publicity@hotmail.co.uk, or alternatively you can attend our weekly meetings to chat over possible articles. The meeting will take place on Friday at 4pm in Bowland Bar- so please come along! The latest edition of Bowland Lady is also available online in a PDF format, (as well as back issues) which you can find by clicking the issue download button on this page.
The History Of The Bowland Lady
(Or Monkey Or.. Badger?!)
Date: 2000 - The Primitive Ape Years
Editors: Davy Gibson (VP) and Caroline Davies (Mag Editor)
After years of newsletters known as the Bowland Bulletin and on one occasion, the Bowland Bomb, it was decided that the folk of Bowland deserved and required their own magazine, or “rag”, as it was referred to back then. The first ever edition was a ramshackle effort with hand-written articles included. However, they do promise at the end that the next issue “will be better and more professional”.
Date: 2001- Monkeying Around
Editors: Lucy Hope-Smith (VP) and Neale Flatley (Mag Editor)
By this point the magazine was in full swing and going places. The editor was so confident he challenged the college with: “Hope you enjoy it. If you don’t, you can always challenge me for the position at hustings in a couple of weeks”. Not too different from today really! However, by the end of the year, desperation was setting in with few articles submitted. Mr Flatley pleaded with Bowland: “let’s not let the monkey die… please.” Well it did, so get over it! On a more positive note, they had a cool rumours page in one issue.
“She also succumbed to the curse of naming insanity; with their final issue being called ‘Ye Olde Bowland Bader’”
Date: 2002 - The Bowland Monkey With No Monkey Years
Editor: Deirdre “Dee” Ellis (VP)
First question: Where’s the monkey at? However, this was quite a creative period for the magazine with a confessions column (we’d need a whole mag for this now), an article about how locals in Lancaster believe students to “be a nuisance to society” and two pages on Men’s English and Women’s English. For instance for men: “nice dress” = nice cleavage. For women: “Be romantic, turn out the lights” = I have flabby thighs. Couldn’t agree more to be honest!
Date: 2003 - The Isn’t That Guy Still At Uni Years
Editors: Jacob Samuel (VP) and Hannah Clarke (Mag Editor)
Yep, he’s still around and still writing for the mag as of the last issue! Jacob was The Bowland Monkey in 2003. Full of his trademark wit and zany humour, this is good stuff! Highlights include the regular feature ‘Top of the Tower’ discs which one issue had a Bowland porter pick songs from Les Miserables and Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits!
Eclectic taste to say the least. Hannah, the editor, seems to have been a restraining influence writing some serious interviews and album reviews. However, she also succumbed to the curse of naming insanity; with their final issue being called “Ye Olde Bowland Bader” complete with an actual badger on the front cover. In the issue Jacob insists that fragile freshers should go to here for comfort. You really should!
Date: 2004 - The Wee Scotsman Years
Editors: Blair Chalmers, Joanne Hodgson and Adam Grainger
Back in 2004, when promised you were going to get a lady on the front cover, you could be forgiven for getting a little bit excited! However, Blair had other ideas. So the renamed Bowland Lady (complete with bow and arrow) now included news reports, international columns, sports updates and education and welfare tips. Bit like today really but with less humour. Blair’s final column reads like this: “There were grand plans for colour, pictures, multiple writers, regular features and a more professional approach. I cannot help but think that I have failed to achieve this. Once again it is late at night and the work is finished. It shouldn’t feel like a burden, it’s a job I volunteered to do, but I’m not in a good mood. I lost at pool tonight, again, the fourth time in four weeks; consistency has never felt so bad.” Ditto that one Blair!
“Who can possibly forget the legendary dot to dot! Ah, the good old days!”
Date: 2005 - The Who’s That Girl Years
Editors: Emily Burkes (VP), Emma Lyon (pictured) and Hannah Loxton (Publicity)
So with Blair’s dreams in tatters, the new all-girl team head into 2005 with a revamped Bowland Magazine. The monkey is long gone, long live the lady! Ahem. Anyway, by this point we get fancy borders, lots of content and a cartoon strip featuring… a Bowland Monkey! Hooray! However, just so people don’t get too cheerful about this, Ian Howard has an article entitled “House Hunters beware” on the very next page! Like I said I like the fancy borders…
Date: 2006 - The Dot To Dot Years
Editors: Rachel Cruddas (VP), Alison Fox and McKenna (Publicity)
Barring a brave but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at an A4 mag, this era was the equivalent of humanity degenerating back into primordial soup. One issue contained ten pages, half of which were adverts. There was a feature on a new JCR which only included about six members and who can possibly forget the legendary dot to dot! Ah, the good old days!
“The monkey is long gone, long live the lady!”
Date: 2007- The It’s Evolution Not Revolution Years
Editors: Kat Arckless (VP), Elise Neve, Slev and me (Publicity)
Elise had the unenviable task of working with Slev and then me in this year! She deserves sympathy! Slev’s enthusiasm for sport saw one mag contain around 20 pages on the subject which alienated some, including Elise! The magazine has changed a lot over the years for better, or for worse and I’m sure that will continue into 2008! I’ll still be kicking around badgering people anyway! Elise, however, is going and I’d like to thank her for this term and showing me what to do and being generally calm at all times! And we must welcome our new editor and opinions man Ben Nye and Poppy Goodbrand, my new publicity partner! Good luck guys, as myself and everyone else who has ever worked on this magazine will agree, you’re going to need it!
Writen By Liam Richardson (2007)
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