In the spring, we conducted research which found that the pandemic was making academic authors busier and more stressed out than ever and that gender was an important factor. Six months on, have these pressures changed and if so how?

In 1918, when both World War I and the ‘Spanish flu’ raged in Europe, the American diplomat Hugh S. Gibson was sent to Paris. Today, his personal records offer us rare insights into a time between disease and diplomacy.