At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, by Celia Marshik Kate Macdonald on a study of how garments changed their wearers in early 20th-century Britain By Kate Macdonald 19 January
Laughter and War: Humorous-Satirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia, 1914-1918, by Lesley Milne Kate Macdonald on the publications that used humour to share the trauma of the First World War By Kate Macdonald 21 April
Willem or Dafoe? A roll call to remember Kate MacDonald reflects on playing the student name game in the Belgian academy By Kate Macdonald 20 August
In Belgium, the beer is warmer than the academy Belgian academia looks enticing and accommodating to UK postgraduates, but Kate Macdonald found that it was for locals only By Kate Macdonald 6 August
The quirks and surprises of being the in-house English speaker From translating health and safety advice to tongue-twisters, there’s always something new to do, says Kate Macdonald By Kate Macdonald 2 July