In Tides 50 we published an article based on Matthew Kilburn's talk for Target Book Club in 2023, asking exactly which Doctor appears in Doctor Who and the Cybermen, by Gerry Davis, and how disagreements about Doctor Who in 1974 might have shaped the novelization of a 1967 story. Now blogged:

In the last of our retrospectives on the characterization of the Fifteenth Doctor, Alice Hardaker recognises charisma, emotional competence and a friend to be made in a bar. #DoctorWho #WhoSky #NcutiGatwa

While people are downloading issues from 1991, they could also download one from 2025, issue 50 - William Russell and Barbara Clegg remembered, the 2023 specials and the 2024 series reviewed, the Fifteenth Doctor's character, and more. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

Statistics are peculiar. Apparently issue 5, from 1991, has been downloaded 135 times this week. We don't know why it has become so popular. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

After a few distractions, we're back with the last of our posts from Bedford Who Charity Con 2025, reporting from Jacqueline King's panel. #DoctorWho #WhoSky

More thoughts on the Fifteenth Doctor's character, this time by Adam Kendrick: #DoctorWho oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/13/i...

The River Stannis runs pale and long The River Darrow it runs to flood But oh my lovely, lonely child The River Restal runs to blood – Extract from the traditional Hookland nursery rhyme 'The Running of the Rivers'

Another Bedford Who Charity Con guest panel report, this time on Neve McIntosh #DoctorWho

CS Lewis speaks wisely on this kind of thing:

The first of three articles looking at the character of the Fifteenth Doctor - even his emotional literacy has its limits, notes Matthew Kilburn in Music and Ice. #DoctorWho

Another report from the panels at this April's Doctor Who charity convention in Bedford - Sophie Aldred at Bedford Who Charity Con: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/06/t...

Signal boosting the auction for a print of Alister Pearson's artwork that he kindly agreed to be on the back of the last CT - all proceeds going to a good cause! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15714495...

The first of our reports from Bedford Who Charity Con 2025, from the interview with one of the most irrepressible people in the world of Doctor Who, Katy Manning: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/07/03/t...

Not previously blogged - an article first published in Tides of Time issue 50 last month. Charlie Bowden looks at the ties Night Terrors has to the rest of Series Six.

The Wrong Way Round – 20 Years of Series 1 (Part One) Last month, I wrote about my very first episode of Doctor Who, which was of course Dalek. I make an off-hand mention that my entire viewing experience of that particular series, generally known to Who fans as Series 1 (2005), was somewhat…

New blog about how I watched my first series of Doctor Who in completely the wrong order. And why that was fine, actually.

Here we are - details of issue 50 of Tides of Timeand the download link. Farewell Fifteen, memories of Nicholas Courtney, William Russell, Barbara Clegg, reviews of poems by Kate Fox and Target books and Bedford Who Charity Cons and more. Enjoy! #DoctorWho #WhoSky

The online edition of Tides of Time 50 will be available to download in the near future. More details soon.

Currently popular on the website - Mark Learey's account of Jon Pertwee's last convention appearance at Aldbourne in 1996, which we published in 2019. oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2019/09/16/p...

Tides of Time 50 is still available. Curated Doctor Who opinion, poetry and research: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/t...

And for more on Barbara Clegg's career, see the current edition of Tides of Time.

Issue 50 of Tides of Time is here! What's in, and how to order: oxforddoctorwho-tidesoftime.blog/2025/06/15/t...

More details soon...