Sunday, January 28, 2007

The broadsheet years

The student magazine broadsheet was published in Cambridge until the early 1980s when commercial sponsorship acquired by Varsity, another student newspaper, drove broadsheet out of print. In 1994, Eric Griffiths led a brief, sadly doomed effort to resurrect broadsheet, raising funds from, amongst others, Christopher Ricks and Germaine Greer. Martin Rowson (cartoonist laureate to Ken Livingstone) supplied a drawing for the front cover.

The new broadsheet was edited by Joanna Droop. Contributors included Nick Hallam, Chris Goode, Tom Hampson, Jerome de Groot, Eddie Sterne and Sophie Ratcliffe.