Joanne Yau

Jan 13, 2025 | varsity.co.uk | Joanne Yau

A group of Cambridge students are marking the 70th anniversary of tiddlywinks becoming a competitive sport This January marked 70 years since a group of Cambridge students founded the society that would convert the once-Victorian parlour game of tiddlywinks into a competitive sport. The Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) was founded in January 1955 by friends Bill Steen and Lawford Howells, along with other students at Christ’s College, who were later joined by Peter Downes.

Jan 11, 2025 | varsity.co.uk | Joanne Yau

Key figures from the Greater Cambridge region have published an open letter urging the government to capitalise on the area’s potential as a catalyst for national renewal. Among the signatories are the vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, leaders of the City and District Councils, and leaders of innovation hubs in the region.

Nov 16, 2024 | varsity.co.uk | Joanne Yau

Cambridge and Oxford students go head to head, as Joanne Yau interviews the historic rivals about their perceptions on each others’ nightlife, love life, and the town and gown divide “Both are posh” and “clubs [are] equally dismal” are probably the two most irrefutable comments I’ve received from Oxonians in comparing Oxford and Cambridge. The poshness is really no surprise.

Oct 26, 2024 | varsity.co.uk | Joanne Yau

Joanne Yau explores Gen Z Cambridge students’ longing for a cringier, freer past through Bunker parties, digital cameras, and ironic fashion King’s Bunker, host of King’s College’s bohemian parties and Ents, recently witnessed a revival of corny late-millennial culture in a March event simply named ‘#SWAG’.

Sep 23, 2024 | scmp.com | Joanne Yau

This is the fifth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument, and their history. The drum is one of the things early humans all had in common, whether they were in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt or China 5,000 years ago.