Esther Knowles

Esther Knowles
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Cambridge University
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Everything student news, London culture, popular culture, arts and lifestyle, food, travel and Taylor Swift.

  • Esther is Assistant Editor at The Tab HQ, managing 12 teams of student journalists across the UK, as well as writing for the national site.
  • She joined The Tab Cambridge in January 2022 and soon became Senior News Editor. She then progressed to Editor-in-Chief in January 2023, leading a team of over 40 writers.
  • After graduating, Esther worked as a freelance journalist for Luxury Lifestyle Magazine. She subsequently joined The Tab HQ in December 2025.

Experience

Esther was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Cambridge in 2024. Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance lifestyle journalist and is now Assistant Editor at The Tab HQ.

Education

Esther began studying English Literature at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge in October 2022, before graduating in the summer of 2025. Before that, she studied English, History and Religious Studies at A-Level.

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Posts

Close associate of Jeffrey Epstein leaves advisory role at Cambridge University business school

An email sent from David Stern’s account referred to him as Epstein’s ‘soldier’ and to the convicted paedophile as his ‘general’

Thea Sewell: ‘I was ostracised for my views on the sex-gender debate at Cambridge University’

Thea is the founder of a controversial Cambridge University society that defines gender in terms of ‘biological sex’

University

Say what you want about it, Revs closing is the end of clubbing for our generation

You can’t deny it, Revs was the unofficial party headquarters for young people

Chaos ensues at Cambridge Union as speaker heckled by Green Party candidate

Kathryn Fisher was given a verbal caution for her behaviour towards the Reform councillor

Pub that barred Cambridge University controversial women’s soc founder issues apology

The Prince of Wales admitted ‘Thea should not have been barred on the grounds of her views and beliefs’

Ex-boyfriend who brutally stabbed Nottingham student pleads guilty to murder

40-year-old Adedapo Adegbola attacked the psychology student after their relationship ended

Labour MP urges Cambridge college to drop plans targeting private school admissions

In a letter to Trinity Hall, Andrew Ranger said he was ‘dismayed’ by the policy memo

The bizarre reason hundreds of Londoners rode the Tube with no trousers on Sunday

If you stumbled across a crowd of half-dressed commuters on the tube last week, just know there was a reason for it

Everything to know about Jade Scott, the avid gamer and Warwick Uni student on The Traitors

There’s a reason she’s not telling other Traitors contestants about her degree

Body of 22-year-old Nottingham student found in Norwich woodland

Xavier MacLeod Conway died just days before Christmas

University

Man charged with causing death by dangerous driving after death of KCL student

Aalia Mahomed was hit by a van while sitting on a bench near campus

Reality TV

There’s a convincing theory that everyone on this year’s Traitors secretly knows each other

The evidence that the series four Traitors contestants are all related is too convincing to ignore

Cambridge student contacted by council after dumping box next to a bin

The international student accused British people of being ‘bored out of their minds’

liverpool student cocaine

Mum of Liverpool student jailed over ‘single line of cocaine’ speaks out about her daughter’s release

Mia O’Brien was allowed to return home from Dubai prison in time for Christmas

Netflix

What’s going on with Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton’s relationship outside of Stranger Things?

To make things even wilder, the stunt doubles of Nancy and Jonathan are also dating off-screen

The Cambridge Tab is looking for new Editor-in-Chiefs, and we want you!

Apply by 11pm on Saturday 10th January and you could be organising The Tab’s infamous BNOC list next term

Cambridge University college to install climbing wall inside 150 year old church tower

Pembroke has already converted the church on Trumpington Street into an auditorium

Cambridge University to ban use of the term ‘Oxbridge’ due to elitist connotations

Anyone caught using the word will be forced to undertake a mandatory ‘inclusivity training’

St John’s College Cambridge now has control over the SJV choir’s social media

The petition to save the mixed choir is supported by the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams

Cambridge students organise protest against Trinity College’s ties to Israel

The action comes after Trinity was issued a legal notice asking it to divest from its investments in arms companies

Confirmed: Cambridge University assistance staff will strike for three days this month

The industrial action, sparked by pay disputes, will take place from Tuesday 12th March to Thursday 14th March

Students and staff protest for termination of Cambridge University ‘race realist’ fellow

The protestors marched to the Student Services Centre to lodge complaints but were turned away

Student bar staff at a Cambridge college were paid less than minimum wage

Emmanuel College has now paid the £3,924.75 they legally owed to students

Pro-Palestine and climate justice groups host sit-in at Cambridge’s Maxwell Centre

Activist groups protest the involvement of Cambridge’s Laboratory for Scientific Computing with fossil fuel companies and the war in Gaza

Less than half of Cambridge students say they enjoy studying for their degree

More Cambridge students are stressed by their degree than enjoy it

Oxford and Cambridge twins to compete on opposing teams in the Boat Race

Catherine and Gemma King will row in rival boats for the first time in their lives

Prospective Cambridge student killed himself after being blackmailed over nude photographs

Dinal De Alwis, a pupil at Whitgift School, wanted to study economics at Cambridge

Cambridge discriminates against privately-educated white men, says ‘anti-woke’ professor

James Tooley, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, is starting a course examining the origins of the ‘woke’ movement

Cambridge students organise protest and petition calling for termination of Nathan Cofnas

The Philosophy fellow has faced backlash for a controversial blog post where he advocated for a ‘hereditarian revolution’

Cambridge fellow involved in race controversy claims quotes attributed to him are ‘fake’

Nathan Cofnas has been under fire for his recent blog post where he advocated for ‘the preservation of racial distinctions’

VOTE NOW: Cambridge’s Top 75 BNOCs 2024 revealed

It’s now up to you to decide the top 10…

Cambridge had the fewest applications of all Russell Group Universities last year

Cambridge students, we’re sorry if this hurts your feelings

Every Cambridge May Ball in 2024: Dates, themes and prices

We’re here again doing the work of the people

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN: Cambridge’s BNOC Competition 2024

Babe wake up, it’s time to nominate for The Tab’s BNOC list

Cambridge University support staff on three day strike over pay row

The union, representing over 450 members of support staff, say they are paid below inflation rates

Cambridge college apologises for targeting Chinese students over mess in toilets

‘It is deeply wrong to make negative assumptions about any one group or community’